No shoe polish required.
Chrome excel leather care.
Caring for chromexcel is very easy using saphir s greasy leather cream.
How to care for chromexcel.
Horween s chromexcel leather is one of our favorites here at tsm thanks to it s durability and gorgeous properties.
G a cloudy hazy look.
Brush vigorously for several minutes using a horsehair brush.
However shell cordovan is the only leather where you can completely remove a scratch.
You can very easily wipe this off or brush it to a very nice shine with a horsehair brush.
My particular shoe care regimen is very simple and closely resembles the mac method clean with a soft damp cloth allow to dry completely away from heat and moving air.
Because it has a very light pigment it is not necessary to perfectly match the color.
Brushing vigorously and you want to brush it vigorously not only helps to remove dirt but it also heats up the leather moving around the oils and helping to remedy scratches and scrapes.
The chrome ions displacing the water are smaller than vegetable tanning molecules which generally makes chrome tanned leather thinner and softer than vegetable tanned leather.
First you want a good horsehair brush.
Every 10 15 wearings apply a light haze of neutral creme cordovan or venetian cream sparingly.
Generally chrome tanned leathers yield soft supple and durable leathers while vegetable tanned leathers are round and full feeling patina well and are easy to coax into shapes using heat and moisture.
Generally chrome tanned leathers yield soft supple and durable leathers while vegetable tanned leathers are round and full feeling patina well and are easy to coax into shapes using heat and moisture.
Bloom is a desirable characteristic as it means that the leather is properly nourished with greases oils wax.
The next step is hot stuffing that is the impregnation of the hides with oils waxes and greases that are solid at room temperature.
This is the wax before being melted and hot stuffed into the leather.
Wet blue hides after receiving a vegetable retannage now natural in color.
The temporary displacement of these oil and wax blends causes the leather to lighten or shift.
Chromexcel and shell cordovan will scratch and scuff rather easily and due to the high grease content these scratches can be buffed out rather easily.
The original pull up leather chromexcel is hot stuffed with plenty of oils and fats that add both softness and water resilience.
