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Insightdriver wrote:
Since neatsfoot oil has been used for leather goods longer than Brooks has been in business I have trust that the people who used leather daily as a part of life knew what they were doing.

Final Edit: neatsfoot oil is derived from the animal from which leather was derived so it would make sense, wouldn't it, to use the same oil that was in the animal's skin in the first place?

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Wood working and leather working are both very old trades. So to follow your first logic, wood workers know what they are doing.


However, your second logic, above, is false. If you apply your logic to wood products:
Wood products are often rubbed with oils to PROTECT them. Yet, I'm pretty darn sure the oils used did not originate from that species of tree.

BTW, I know nothing of leather work and little of wood work. I own a really nice leather jacket I picked up in Argentina, does that count?

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