Purple Leather Balm

[Garyspruill]

This is more of a question about a product.

I saw a video on youtube where a leatherworker was applying a purple colored - oil based - leather balm to the edges of his project. Turned the edges to a really aged look.

The question: does anyone know what this product is? Does anyone know the "where" to get it??

The purple looking balm was in a white balm container with a screw on lid. Looked almost like a normal leather balm but was purple??

 

Here is the video where I saw the product, the product asking about is at about 6:51 minutes into the video: Video Click Here

 

Gary

[TomG]

I'm not a pro at all of the different compounds, but.. In the comments someone asked if he was using beeswax to burnish and he said yes.  A few comments down someone asked about the process and he said it was just balm.
I know there are many concoctions for treating leather. Lots are based on beeswax, mineral oil, tallow, fariry dust and magic

I use Fiebings Leather  balm with atom wax for many of my products, but it's a liquid. Recently, Fiebings stopped making the various colors of it and just sells Neutral now.
I used the black and brown versions daily and preferred those over Neutral so I email and was put in touch with one of their chemists. He said that I could make my own by combining the Neutral with Tandys Eco-Flo water-based dye.  He said to experiment with ratios,  I settled on 25% dye and it seemed to work well. HOWEVER, I have gradually just stuck to the neutral as I have switched to dip dying most of my items and it works as well as the colored wax. For small, hand-dyed items, the colored versions seem to even out andy sponge or dauber marks.
NOW, if you have some of the paste type of balm, try taking a small dab and mixing some dye in and see how it works. It might or it might not.  Can't hurt to try!
 

[Garyspruill]

4 hours ago, TomG said:

I'm not a pro at all of the different compounds, but.. In the comments someone asked if he was using beeswax to burnish and he said yes.  A few comments down someone asked about the process and he said it was just balm.
I know there are many concoctions for treating leather. Lots are based on beeswax, mineral oil, tallow, fariry dust and magic

I use Fiebings Leather  balm with atom wax for many of my products, but it's a liquid. Recently, Fiebings stopped making the various colors of it and just sells Neutral now.
I used the black and brown versions daily and preferred those over Neutral so I email and was put in touch with one of their chemists. He said that I could make my own by combining the Neutral with Tandys Eco-Flo water-based dye.  He said to experiment with ratios,  I settled on 25% dye and it seemed to work well. HOWEVER, I have gradually just stuck to the neutral as I have switched to dip dying most of my items and it works as well as the colored wax. For small, hand-dyed items, the colored versions seem to even out andy sponge or dauber marks.
NOW, if you have some of the paste type of balm, try taking a small dab and mixing some dye in and see how it works. It might or it might not.  Can't hurt to try!
 

thank you TomG

Yes, I use a lot of the same. I just saw that purple stuff in the video and was wondering what it was and I have a few projects that I wanted to use it on myself.

This is why I was asking the "if" anyone knew what it was

Thanks again

Gary

[CutThumb]

Just been researching balms, and came across Kocholine, which apparently is a pinkish colour and can stain yarn. It’s made with various oil and waxes. Might be the culprit?