Repairing a camel leather pouffe.

[fredk]

1 hour ago, toxo said:

For you guys who mix your own, Has anyone tried mixing in a few drops of essential oils to make it smell nice?

Kinda, sort-of, yes. I used to mix some lavender oil into my beeswax/carnauba/nfo soft mix. A lady gardener used to order it from me. She used some of the regular mix on her leather goods and found that mix helped her dried chapped hands so she asked if I could mix some with essential oils in it to make it smell nice. Thus I added essential lavender oil into it and not only she bought it but I used to sell it in 50ml tins, mainly to other gardeners but other 'house wife' types and car mechanics.

I checked with a university chemistry professor friend of mine about the mix and he checked and said that as they were all natural products which we use anyway all was fine. Local Trading Standards got a tin to test and never came back to me to tell me to stop.

[toxo]

1 hour ago, fredk said:

Kinda, sort-of, yes. I used to mix some lavender oil into my beeswax/carnauba/nfo soft mix. A lady gardener used to order it from me. She used some of the regular mix on her leather goods and found that mix helped her dried chapped hands so she asked if I could mix some with essential oils in it to make it smell nice. Thus I added essential lavender oil into it and not only she bought it but I used to sell it in 50ml tins, mainly to other gardeners but other 'house wife' types and car mechanics.

I checked with a university chemistry professor friend of mine about the mix and he checked and said that as they were all natural products which we use anyway all was fine. Local Trading Standards got a tin to test and never came back to me to tell me to stop.

You entrepreneur you! ;)