What are your favorite products for cleaning tack?

Laura F · Well Schooled

What are your favorite products for cleaning tack?

Katherine F · Well Schooled

Anything with beeswax in it seems to make my tack really pliable. I also like linseed soap.

Jane at Equestrian Collections · Foal

I like to use glycerine soap to clean all my tack, followed by a good leather conditioner. To avoid slippery reins, I clean my tack just after riding so the conditioner has plenty of time to absorb into the leather and dry. I do oil my tack regularly, but unless they are really bad, I try not to oil the reins. One piece of advice....NEVER oil your reins just before a horse show! This is a leather conditioner that I just LOVE. http://www.equestriancollections.com/product.asp?ic=JP21761R. When I was training horses and managing horse farms full time, I always had this in the tack stall, next to my glycerine soap, so I could quickly clean and condition the many bridles I used each day.

myvanya · Yearling

I wipe off most of my tack with a conditioning soap of some kind after pretty much every ride. I really like effax leather cream or the moss glycerin soap (which has conditioners in it). They soften but not so much as to make things slippery or wear excessively. I then will oil with either the effax oil, neatsfoot, or hydrophane after I do my periodic deep cleanings. This works really well for me even with lower quality leathers and the dry weather we have here.

Erika Sentz · Yearling

I absolutely love Passier Lederbalsam. Conditions all my leather, especially brand new leather, and makes it very useable. Everyone at my barn uses it too.

-- Edited by Erika Sentz on Tuesday 19th of October 2010 03:44:08 PM

DressagePony · Foal

I usually wipe my bridle down after every ride with glycerin soap. But I absolutely love the Passier products for more in depth cleaning. A friend of mine uses the Stubben stuff as well and refuses to use anything else.

Hooked On Impressive · Foal

Leather CPR for sure! I've cleaned some pretty old moldy tack with that stuff and it's come impressively clean and conditioned every time!

piaffe4me · Yearling

I second erika's post. I love Passier Lederbalsam, and use glycerin soap as well. Someone gave me a container of Leather CPR, and it was okay, but it didn't really seem to make the leather more supple. It made it bendable, and it cleaned it pretty well, but it just seemed to have an artificial feel to it after cleaning, if that makes sense.

Julius · Well Schooled

Murphy's oil soap and once in a while I oil with vegetable oil.
I have had my bridle for 20 years and it looks and feels brad new and just sold my 18 yr old saddle for almost what I paid for it new. Cost of up keep, almost nothing smile

I also here linseed oil is very good. Avoid neatslene oil on stitchings, it will make them rot.