{"product_id":"hestra-leather-balm","title":"Hestra Leather Balm","description":"\u003cp\u003eHestra's own leather conditioner, made for the goatskin and cowhide gloves it also makes. Leather in a ski glove is a working material: it gets wet, it dries out, and each cycle takes a little suppleness with it. The balm puts back what the drying takes out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat is in it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHestra lists the contents plainly: beeswax, lanolin, carnauba wax and neatsfoot oil. Waxes and oils, nothing more. Hestra's stated purpose for it is to \"preserve the suppleness and water resistance of the leather\" — it feeds the hide so the fibres stay pliable, and it tops up the surface treatment that sheds water before the leather can soak it up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat it does not do\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt conditions leather. It does not add a membrane. On a glove with no waterproof insert — which is most of the Hestra leather line, including the Army Leather Patrol and the Army Leather Heli Ski — the water resistance lives in the treated hide itself, and a treatment depletes with use. That is exactly what the balm is for: it restores a treatment, it does not install a barrier. Sustained wet weather calls for a membrane glove — CZone or GORE-TEX — not a conditioned one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat it is for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHestra says it is suitable for goatskin and cowhide sports gloves. That covers the impregnated cowhide and Army goat leather used across the Hestra ski range. One size, sold as a tin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWho should skip it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf your gloves are synthetic — a shell of polyester or polyamide with no leather palm — there is nothing here for the balm to feed. It is a leather product, and only a leather product. Buy it with a leather glove, not instead of one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hestra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635217957159,"sku":"91700-02","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/7177\/0663\/files\/91700-02-Large.png?v=1783897905","url":"https:\/\/933534.myshopify.com\/products\/hestra-leather-balm","provider":"PTO SKI \u0026 Snowboard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}