I went to a horse store today called 'Thrifty Horse' in Norco, CA. They have saddles and such.

They had the beeswax I mentioned in the other thread.



I want to pamper my new old stock horse hyde strop. I want to massage a good leather conditioner in to it before I do the bottle break in so I don't stress it

My take on the best way to break in older hyde is to use one well choosen product and stick with it, instead of switching up and having a mixture of products and chemistrys.

The horse store had: saddle soap, neatsfoot oil (which wikipedia says you have to watch for neatsfoot oil that adds petrolium, which is bad for leather), lexol (both cleaner and conditioner) mink oil, and a product called 'hydroplane' which I can't seem to find on the net anywhere.

Most of these products say they waterproof the leather, which sounds like a good thing to me.

I hear lexol is good.

Someone on this board said they used mink oil.

My working assumption is modern products can serve a strop better then ole fashion shaving lather.

Has anyone figured out a really good product for the leather side of strops?