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  1. glenjay

    All Natural, Non-Toxic, Shoe Polish

    Hi everyone, sorry for the silence. I simply have not had the time to work on the polish. There have been some changes in my life recently that have changed my priorities. Making and supporting the polish has been more of a secondary income for me while working around my day job. I was...
  2. glenjay

    Leather Quality and Properties

     This is a very good article! My research initially took me in the direction of muscle, partly due to the filament size of the protein fibers in the hyaline tissue layer which is similar in diameter to the protein fibers in muscle (much smaller than skin tissue). This thinner fiber allows...
  3. glenjay

    All Natural, Non-Toxic, Shoe Polish

    Well... I did it, I came out with a paste polish. It has all the colors of the cream polish, but in a harder wax concentration that the cream. The paste polish is not as hard as the High Shine (which should only be used on non-flexible surfaces), but will produce a higher shine than the...
  4. glenjay

    **The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**

     I was addressing waterproofing products applied to the surface of a shoe upper, but of course the molecular makeup (and mass in some cases) of a given product will define its resistance to water.
  5. glenjay

    **The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**

     The GlenKaren water resistant polish includes sodium bentonite, which is a clay. This clay makes the polish in the jar feel a little gritty, and although the polish becomes smooth as it is rubbed into the shoe, some people don’t like the feel of the clay and are concerned about its effect...
  6. glenjay

    **The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**

    I would like to ask some questions of the forum members in regard to using cream versus paste (wax) polish. I was going to start another thread so I could include a poll, but I thought the conversation would benefit to readers of this thread. I would like to ask any member that cares to reply...
  7. glenjay

    **The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**

     I think what mimo was trying to say is that it doesn’t make sense to use high quality polish on low quality shoes. Clarks (the manufacture of the shoes in question) is one of the largest manufacturers of shoes in the world. The SRP of their men’s dress shoes range from $90 to $180 USD...
  8. glenjay

    All Natural, Non-Toxic, Shoe Polish

     I wouldn't call it a phobia, but yes, you don't want to saturate the leather with too much oil. There is about 4 times as much oil in the cleaner/conditioner as there is in the cream polish, and the cream polish has a higher concentration of oil than a paste polish.
  9. glenjay

    All Natural, Non-Toxic, Shoe Polish

    You can get a nice shine from just the GlenKaren cleaner conditioner. As traverscao suggests you need to wait a little while (about an 2 hours) after using it for cleaning and conditioning, then buff well with a horsehair shoe brush. Buffing again the following day will add a little more shine...
  10. glenjay

    All Natural, Non-Toxic, Shoe Polish

    Unfortunately, international shipping for anything under a case is $25. When you select a country on the order page of the GlenKaren site it will change the shipping cost from $4 to $25 for anything outside of CONUS.
  11. glenjay

    All Natural, Non-Toxic, Shoe Polish

     I would probably just stick with the standard horsehair brush that has a 6" wooden handle the length of the brush. That works for about 90% of what you would need a brush for. The length of the bristles is what makes the most difference. A 8" brush will usually have longer bristles (it's...
  12. glenjay

    All Natural, Non-Toxic, Shoe Polish

     I would use Walnut for the brown shoes in your picture. The water resistant polish has a slightly grainy feel to it, which some people don't care for, but it does smooth out on the shoe. I still use the regular line unless I need to add some additional water resistance to a pair of shoes...
  13. glenjay

    Berluti Sizing method/determination...please help!

     Yes, I have a pair of Berluti Club shoes. They retail for around $1,200 US.
  14. glenjay

    **The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**

     I think it would be more accurate to state that it is "non greasy" than "non oily" (but it is a matter of semantics to some degree) because lanolin and jojoba are more of a wax composition than an oil, and the molecular chain length and composition of the Palmitoleic acid in mink oil gives...
  15. glenjay

    **The Official Shoe Care Thread: Tutorials, Photos, etc.**

     The feeling of something being more oily or less oily has to do with the composition of the acids (usually ***** acids) that make up that oil. For example: coconut oil is high in Lauric acid, while mink oil is high in Palmitoleic acid. Lanolin is actually more of a wax than an oil by...
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