Obenauf's Heavy Duty LP Leather Conditioner Natural Oil Beeswax Formula (8oz)

This stuff is simply great, easy to use smells fine and lasts. I apply to any footwear or leather I give a darn about. It won’t last forever as a waterproof treatment, 2-3 years maybe but it will last as a leather treatment to recondition sad leather. If anyone remembers Snoseal, the whole place in oven to warn, this stuff melts on hand contact. The temp of your hand is all you need and this makes it easier to use. Like all quality products you only need a little bit. I find the process strangely relaxing.

I bought this product for my shoes and an old leather chair. It works fantastically at reviving my shoes and bringing the leather back to life. The leather on the chair was a bit more damaged than the shoes, but it did a fine job adding moisture and pliability to the leather. I actually ended up using it on my old baseball glove that has not seen any care in a decade at least, and it feels like it is almost brand new after one application. I will do another in a week or two, and it should be excellent. The look of the product is a light tan, and the look of the leather afterwards is great, very well moisturized, but I cannot speak to the color match because all my leather was already black, but it does warn it may darken leather. It is the consistency and thickness of wax for a beard or hair, and it melts pretty well when applied at body temperature. It is a little difficult to get off your hands, though, so use gloves or just use a cloth, but with my baseball glove, it was easier to just use my bare hands to get in all the crevices. It is not sticky; it just makes your hands waterproof for a day or so. The instructions are simple to follow, and the conditioner is easy to apply. I would recommend it.

WOW! I am in my 80's have worked with leather products most of my life. This is the best product I have ever used with leather. Good example I have a ww2 bomber jacket that needed nourished. This product did it and did so beautifully. It looks and feels brand new. No work, just rub it in. No smell except fresh leather. I rarely give a product a review like this one.

This stuff absorbs very well and smells great, unlike the Shoe Grease. I think this is very similar to, if not the same, the book conditioner sent by White's boots. Really protects and softens up the leather. I mostly use it on my boots but I have also used it on my belt and my wallet. If you are going to use it on either one of those, I would recommend letting it sit overnight to allow them to dry a little bit.

amazing, in fact magical. i have a lot of leather motorcycle jackets and western, as well as hiking, boots. so i'm not a neophyte when it comes to conditioners and preservatives. but i'd only purchased the liquid kind, and good brands. this stuff is leagues beyond oil or liquid leather condidioners. bought it to darken several pairs of cowboy boots that the better leather oils/liquids did not really affect...including not really getting rid of the dryness of some boots, mostly new for that matter, that came dryer than i'd like. the pairs of lucchese, justin and dan post didn't really show any difference from the oils/liquids after they soaked in and a month had gone by. so i figured there is something to using a thick cream/paste with a great reputation like obenaufs. and indeed there was. first, it darkened (as i wanted) a full shade a much too light golden brown pair of justin bent rail distressed boots. at first it took some of the distressing away, but as the cream dispersed fully into the leather from the surface layer, some of that richness and 'damaged distressed' look came back, including the depth and richness of the leather. next came the hard case, a pair of dan post distressed square toe apache 'earp' boots. have to say the uneven leather texture on these went beyond distressing, they had creases in inappropriate places (where wear would NOT take place) plus the color variation looked dopey, with the toes very dark like they'd been dipped in chocolate, and the rest of the boot with better looking variation. they were also dry as a bone (and that's NEW). i'd already tried to darken and condition them a bit, but the oils, didn't help even after 2 applications. the LP was a different story, applied after a slight warming and partial liquification in my hand, it went into the leather like water in a dry sponge. the variety of shades from the distressing disappeared into a deep rich brown, which at least took away the chocolate-dipped toe look. BUT within several days the depth and richness of the distressed leather came back to a much lessened extent, but at least it looked real than the overdone original manner. as the obenaufs dispersed deeper into the leather, drying into the boot...the magic began. on boot trees, the leather began to reform and tighten around the boot trees, bringing great shape to the boots that they hadn't even had when i got them new a few months back...sorry dan post, but these had a rumpled and unequal look that was allegedly supposed to be 'distressing'. after the obenaufs conditioned the leather, and tightened their rumpled look, helping lessen some awkward dimpling and creases, i got the idea of laying obenaufs into some particularly ill placed creases and dimples on one of the boots, figuring it might allow the leather to get needed moisture and conditioning so the creases and dimpled depressions could fill. for once i was right about something, and after a day when the cream i'd laid into those depressions soaked in, it indeed lessened the creases and dimples. a little working in with my fingers, and pressing to flatten, helped. after a second such application, i removed almost completely one bad crease that no kind of wear would have ever naturally created, and had probably occurred by leaving too loose leather on the original wooden last during (bad) construction. despite my problems with the original boot, after some work with the obenaufs, these are incredible...the best part being that virtually all of the dan post defects during manufacture were eliminated...and those that weren't, were lessened immensely so that if anything, they look like real distressing. amazing stuff!

Very nice product to use

Me encanta el producto, deja mis botas excelentes, repele el agua, llego a tiempo el producto, incluso antes de tiempo, y también me gusta que no huele a diésel, súper recomendable

Great product to protect leather. Easy to apply, works great, lasts a long time, and has a pleasant smell. One thing to note is that it will darken the leather a shade or two.

For boots it is the ultimate product

I’m a utility meter reader and walking outside in the elements all day. After trying several products and solutions to try and stop my feet from being soaked from the dew and rain, this was the only product that actually worked to hold back the water! My only small beef I have is that reapplication is supposed to be about 4-6 weeks, maybe it’s because of how much my shoes are in contact with water but I have to reapply every week to keep them waterproof which means I go through it a lot faster. Others have complained that it darkens the leather, I wasn’t too picky about this but I can confirm it does significantly darken your leather until it starts to wear off.