Otter Wax Saddle Soap | 2oz | All-Natural Leather Cleaner | Made in USA

This product is amazing. Just follow the instructions and it can turn your old leather boots like new again. The scent is lovely as well.

This is exactly as advertised. It is a castile soap with beeswax and other ingredients. It does not seem to contain significant amounts of lanolin, in any at all, like other saddle soaps I am accustomed to. This may make it undesirable for some uses where lanolin is important. I use their other Leather Salve and Leather Oil products, which are outstanding so I decided to give this a try. I purchased this because a pair of very expensive dress shoes were soaked in a recent rain storm and I was concerned about the dirt and any potential water damage so I gave them the full OtterWax treatment. After letting them dry with cedar shoe trees for 4 days I decided to tackle the job. With a soft brush, I found that the saddle soap foamed up nicely and cleaned my very dirty shoes, including the leather soles. It is not a harsh cleaner like Bick 1 so it takes a little more elbow grease to use it, but it did a great job and was gentle on the light walnut brown finish on my shoes. After allowing to dry, I followed up with Leather Salve, which I also worked in a bit, and then leather oil. Both were followed by allowing to soak in and dry, wiping with a soft clean cloth, and then buffing with a shoe brush. After the oil the shoes looked so good I almost didn't polish them. However, I did give them a good polish with shoe cream and then about 4 coats of neutral carnauba polish to bring out the shine and leather. These shoes now look as good as new and perhaps better, with a lot more depth to the shine. It is true that this soap is harder and not as oily as other brands and I would not recommend it unless you were to commit to working it well to allow the bees wax to emulsify and get into the leather then following up with either their leather salve or leather oil if not both. On the other hand, this allows the product to clean and not get into or darken the leather as much as more traditional versions. I think these guys are afraid of meat or something, because there are no four-legged oils in their products and just a touch of lanolin would make this stuff the master of all saddle soaps. I think that this stuff works best on a warm sunny day, which is funny because they make this stuff in Portland, OR. I was looking for gentle natural products to maintain or revive my handmade shoes and in essence to respect the leather. If that is what you are looking for, then Otter Wax is the stuff for you and you won't be disappointed. This will gently but thoroughly clean your leather and is a great first step to caring for leather products.

My boots look and feel great after using this product. I will definitely buy again when needed,

Great quality. I thought I might try something new. My boots came clean with little to no effort.

produces a very nice lather. Cleans light dirt well but for anything even remotely difficult to remove either takes multiple cleans or it doesn't come out at all. Upside is it is very safe for the leather.