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Leather Like
Those terrific leather boots cost you good money, you love how they look, and they’re so comfortable you could wear them to bed. But in fact, as the seasons pass your boots will end up facing all the harsh elements of life. So what can you do to preserve their original beauty, and keep them looking as good as the day you bought them?
One of the best things about good leather is that as it ages, it develops a special patina. As an organic material, leather will stretch to fit the contours of your legs and in time will feel like a second skin. And just as you wouldn’t let your own skin grow tired and dull-looking, you wouldn’t want your leather to lose its glow because it wasn’t correctly tended to.
Leather, like skin, needs plenty of tender loving care to be properly maintained. regular polishing is one of the easiest and most common ways to keep boots looking amazing. Polishing has a dual purpose: it makes your boots look better and helps to erase scuff marks, and it also weatherproofs the leather so that it can be protected from harsh weather.
One of the best products for waterproofing your boots is a simple tin of a material called dubbin. Made of natural wax, tallow and oil, this traditional leather “food” will condition and soften your boots and make the leather water-resistant.
Unlike shoe polish, dubbin doesn’t have any coloring. If the color of your boots has faded, you may want to buff them with a shoe polish that matches the color of the leather. This will bring out the sheen of the original leather and the dubbin will coat the surface with a protective layer. When you condition your boots with dubbin on a regular basis, you will see that the leather is as shiny as it was when you brought them home from the store. Not only that, your feet will remain dry even in bad rainstorms.
Another similarity between leather and skin is that heat can be very damaging to them both. This means you should never use a direct source of heat, like a blow dryer, to dry out your boots. If you do, the heat can cause the leather to shrink and eventually crack, and before long the surface of the leather will be permanently damaged.
At the same time, extreme cold can also result in long-term damage to your boots, leaving the leather brittle and cracked. So if you want to preserve your boots for years to come, don’t expose them to extreme changes in temperature.
Now, Seth has written other articles on boots. Be sure to check out either boot shapers or boot stretcher!
How do I know if my couch has bycast leather or just leather?
We have a sectional that may have bycast leather trim, as opposed to leather trim. Is there a good product that I can use to maintain it that would work well on both? If I treat it as leather, but it’s not, will the leather treatment products harm the bycast leather? We were told that it was leather trim when we purchased the couch, but have since seen one just like it online that says it is bycast leather.
Use Leather Protect on both it will not harm the Bicast in fact it will do it good. You need to clean and protect it like leather otherwise it will suffer in much the same way as leather does. Bicast is particularly prone to damage from body oils but this may not be a problem in the areas that you have on yours.
Always use products that have been well tested on leather and be careful of homemade remedies such as appear on here as they can be very damaging to leather. Good leather products will be safe to use on bicast as well (there is no need to purchase different products for each) any one who does a seperate bicast range has just rebottled leather products!!
Lazy Leather is a good maintenance product for both leather and bicast as it cleans the surface and adds protection as you clean.
Using conditioners could have a very adverse affect on bicast as there is no where for it to go and so it will sit on the surface and attract oils and dirt – something you don’t want to happen. A good protector is water based and so the residue that is left will protect the surface from oils and the water element will evaporate.
Good luck
Birdman & Lil Wayne – Leather So Soft (Instrumental)
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