Donald Gillies wrote:
> Well, Kiwi sells two kinds of shoe-polish leather conditioner. One is
> a saddle soap and the other is neutral shoe polish without cleaning
> agents.
>
> I bought some of the clear neutral shoe polish at Target ($2.29 for
> 28g) and tried it out on my brooks saddles. Compared to Proofide, the
> neutral polish leaves a dull (not shiny) lustre on the saddle but it
> seems to work just fine. Now that they've jacked up the price of
> Proofide, watered down that stuff, and they've shrank the tin size
> ($10 for 40g), it's at least 3x cheaper than Proofide and the leather
> seems just as happy with Kiwi neutral polish as it does with Proofide.
Not only that, but you can fill your old Proofhide can from the Kiwi can and no one will know...
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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA