Thread: my way of conditioning a strop

Hello to all!

I just wanted to post the results of an experiment I've been conducting for some months now.
I've read a lot about conditioning a strop and about several conditioners: there's the neats foot oil, the dovo yellow paste and several other things. I've never used any of these but I found that there's a cheaper way of doing it.
I have a Dovo strop that ocasionaly manages to nick itself... I don't know what it does in my absence but I frequently find some nicks on it. So I find myself doing the following quite often. I sand the surface of the strop with fine grit sandpaper and after that I use a pumice stone to even the surface down while abrading it some more. Then I apply NIVEA hand cream, the fat one from the blue tin. I find that it conditions the leather keeping it supple and gives the strop a nice even draw. It also keeps the strop in good condition, helping it survive the rather foggy premises of my bathroom.
Anybody else tried this or something similar?

I just wanted to put this out there... thanks!