What leather conditioner?

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My loan horse came with old but good quality tack (stubben and kes) cleanned on Friday night with grand prix leather gloss and it looked great. However by today it looked dry again :( can anyone recommend a leather conditioner that will have longer lasting effects. Really don't want to clean tack every few days.
 
Albion and Horsemans One step both excellent and easy to use.

There is also a very old fashioned leather restorer, the name of which I cannot remember even though I have a huge tub of it in my tack room. It is bright red, horrid to use, stinks and is sticky until the leather absorbs it - but for very dry leather it is brilliant stuff.

Someone will remember the name of it !
 
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Maesfen said:
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Thank you !! I am sitting here still trying to remember the name, I got as far as thinking it begins with a K !

Horrible stuff but doesn't it just work. I was given a set of driving harness for my cob mare (the one that has just given my Archie foal), the harness looked like it wanted putting in the dust bin, but I found the tub of red gunk and set about the harness, it worked.
 
It's great stuff, almost the best for me and if you really don't want to rub it in with your fingers get a thin paintbrush that you can cut down to a bit less than an inch long (too long and it's too wishy washy) and use that; because you've shortened it you can rub the stuff in nicely almost as well as your fingers.
 
Maesfen said:
It's great stuff, almost the best for me and if you really don't want to rub it in with your fingers get a thin paintbrush that you can cut down to a bit less than an inch long (too long and it's too wishy washy) and use that; because you've shortened it you can rub the stuff in nicely almost as well as your fingers.
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Do we tell OP her breeches will take on a strange colour if the gunk is not allowed enough time to be absorbed !
 
this stuff is a miracle worker!!! I had a sample from them, and was amazed - I then ordered a big bottle. It can transform something old and dry into something almost new looking!! It is called Leather Therapy. Brilliant stuff.

If you ring them, they might send you out a sample to try.

http://www.leathertherapy.co.uk/acatalog/Equestrian.html
It's the Cleaner / Restorer that you need.
 
As a fitter I like Stubben Hamanol, Leather Therapy, Oakwood Conditioner and Effex Lederbalsm. Definitely don't like anything one step - always rinse cleansers off, don't use conditioners on dirty leather - glycerine isn't a great cleanser or conditioner, oil actually streches and weakens leather, and anything with soap in it is the wrong pH for leather, just like our skin.

Also avoid ingredients in conditioners like mineral oils, distillates etc. These aren't good for leather but are used to make some, usually cheaper, conditioners easily usable.
 
I was given a set of amerigo tack cleaner and soft grease by someone who has given up horses. Looking at the price tag of it I would never have spent that much on tack cleaning stuff but to be honest they work so well and very little goes a long way I will definately be buying these again.

The tack cleaner leaves the leather lovely and 'clean' feeling ie not that sticky or greasyness and the soft grease stuff leaves it lovely soft and shiny. Very very pleased and as I say Ive had mine a while now and there is LOADS left.
 
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