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Mink oil on leather boots, smears onto pants

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AndyHancock

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Mar 7, 2012, 10:30:02 AM3/7/12
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I started to mink-oil my boots a few years ago wiping it in for about
10 minutes/boot. For a while I was trying to find out where stains on
my black office pants came from. I turns out that the mink oil on my
boots was thick enough that when I used the porcelain throne, it would
come off and leave marks on my pants. So I started paper towel to
wipe down the boot after mink oiling it. It alleviated the problem,
but the problem still persists. I'm afraid that if I scrub the boot
anymore with paper towel, there will be no point in mink-oiling it, or
that I will scuff the boot surface.

I don't want to move to a previous product I used (some aerosol spray
can thing) which smelled very chemically. I like mink oil because for
the boot, it's like good old fashion vaseline for the hands. No weird
chemicals.

Is there a "best practice" for avoiding the smeary business? I use
mink oil that actually has a consistency like vaseline (a bit thicker)
and comes in the typical flat cans that you find in shoe stores.

Puppet_Sock

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Mar 23, 2012, 2:37:25 PM3/23/12
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On Mar 7, 11:30 am, AndyHancock <andymhanc...@gmail.com> wrote:
[problems with mink oil]

I'm having difficulty reading the instructions on the package
your product came in. Maybe you could hold them up a
little higher?

Like, high enough that *you* could read them?
Socks
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