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| Leather Care: Soaps |
| Horse people just love the smell of leather and here are some recipes that will help you keep it smelling and looking good. Adult help is a must! |
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| Saddle Soap From the "Natural Formula Book for Home and Yard" by Dan Wallace. Ingredients: 3-1/2 cups Water 3/4 cup Soap Flakes 1/4 cup Neat's Foot oil 1/2 cup Beeswax Instructions: Heat the water to boiling in a sturdy pot, then lower the temperature to simmer. Add soap flakes and stir gently in the top of a double boiler (not over direct heat) combine paraffin and neats foot oil. Heat until melted, and stir. Remove from heat and slowly add oil-wax to soap solutions. Stir until thick, pour into containers and let cool. Old shoe polish tins are recommended. To use, apply with a damp sponge over leather. Buff dry with a soft cloth. |
| Homemade Saddle Soap By Elsie Spry Ingredients: Stainless Steel or heat resistant glass pot Second pot Stainless steel spoon Wide mouth jars Beeswax Pure Flake Lye Castile Soap shavings Water Pure gum turpentine Instructions: (Beeswax and pure flake lye can be found at a hardware, candle or grocery store.) In the steel or tempered glass pot, combine 6-1/4 parts beeswax, 10 parts pure flake lye and 10 parts water. Caution: pure flake lye can burn and corrode skin, clothes and furniture, so be careful! Boil this mixture for 5 minutes, stirring constantly with the stainless steel spoon. Next, in the second pot melt 2 parts castile soap shavings with 10 parts water, mixing them with the well-rinsed spoon. When the soap liquefies, add it slowly to the lye and beeswax mixture, blending evenly until fully combined. Next, remove the pot from any heat and stir in 15 parts turpentine (Watch out turpentine is highly flammable.) Pour immediately into containers; cover and keep in a cool, dry place. The soap can be kept indefinitely. If you repare the recipe with one part equaling one tablespoon, you'll have enough to fill four 8 ounce jars. When you use saddle soap, have two soft flannel cloths on hand. Soak and wring out one until almost dry, dip it into the soap, and rub the leather with a firm circular motion. Rinse that cloth in warm water, wring out, and then use it to remove any excess lather. Use the second dry cloth to polish the leather to a soft luster...and say good bye to ugly looking leather goods! |
| Leather Soap From "the Art of Soapmaking" by Merilyn Mohr. Ingredients: 1-1/2 cup clean rendered Tallow 1/4 cup Neats Foot Oil 1/2 cup Melted Beeswax 3/4 cup Cold Soft Water 1/4 cup Lye Flakes Instructions: Stir lye flakes into cold water until dissolved. Melt 1 cup tallow. Add neats foot oils and set aside to cool Melt beeswax in top of double boiler. Add remaining 1/2 cup tallow to beeswax, stirring to melt and mix thoroughly. Retain tallow-wax mixture in hot water to liquefy. When fat and lye are lukewarm, pour lye slowly into fat, stirring constantly to emulsify. Beating vigorously, add tallow-wax mixture in thin stream. This will cool and solidify quickly. Continute to beat till thick. Pour immediately into molds. |
| Leather New Spray For all of you that use glycerin bar soap to clean your leather tack and do not know what to do with all of those little leftover pieces, put them in a spray bottle with water and let them dissolve. There you have it! Leather New for free! |
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