OMG the Twinkie face cracks me up!!!
Just cleaned 2 saddles (that needed it!) with the Cinnamint soap and balm. Loved the soap and canāt wait to buy the new one! Cleaned well, easy to use,nice sponge. Both saddles and containers were in the house (so room temp ) but I still nuked the balm a teensy bit in hopes it would be easier that way. As much as I love the soap,Iām not 100% sold on the balm yet. It took a lot of elbow grease to work it in well and I didnāt feel like it āsunk inā as much as my current balm which is the Effax. The HS certainly smelled better though! I compare it to Chapstick versus the lip stuff in a tube (which I prefer) the Chapstick is harder and just sits on my lips and the glossier stuff in a squeeze tube feels better to me.
Either way I will continue to use and buy the soap, and will keep trying the balm 
So reporting back from the frigid north on the conditioner. I have one of the prototypes (square container). I keep it in the basement, so cold, but not freezing. I used it on a new martingale that I had just cleaned with the soap. Applied with my hands. It was very granular. It did a nice job, and the martingale looks very nice and is much softer now, but the consistency left a bit to be desired. I have one of the more recent conditioner batches too, and I might open that one to see if the consistency is different.
Iāve been following this thread for awhile and now finally need new leather care products. You all have convinced me to give these a shot. Bought some yesterday and am super excited to try them. Iām just not a very patient person! 
IFG ā the consistency should be different! Some of the prototype batches were too granular to suit me.
Let me know what you think!
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IFG ā the consistency should be different! Some of the prototype batches were too granular to suit me.
Let me know what you think![/QUOTE]
Will do!
Oooooo, I will have to get some of the vanilla citrus! Iāve been super sad b/c I (stupidly!) set my vanilla mint soap on top of the stall half-wall while I was cleaning my bridle, and I forgot that it was a double wall and the soap plummeted into the crevasse between the walls. 
It has been stuck there for two weeks now, despite several attempted rescue missions. I even had a friend bring out her grabber stick thing-y (you know, the ones that old people and super morbidly obese people use to reach stuff?) and I stood perilously perched on a folding chair and shoved the grabby thing between the wallsāI was this close but could not reach it. sniff, sob, sniff And I loff my vanilla mint!
Oh, and I also just conditioned my saddle this weekend and the balm was very grainy. Maybe I have one of the earlier batches? It still did a great job, but I recall that it wasnāt grainy when I first got it.
Frizzle, can you have the BO or BM open up the wall?
Got the shipping notification for Strikerās soap, so excited for it to get here!!
I think we need more mini soaps for those of us with full on addictions to Bensmomās wonderful soap. Iām sitting here looking at my collection of soap and trying to justify buying the Striker scent because Iām not riding regularly and have synthetic saddles. My bridles and halters have never looked or felt so good but since Iām not using them I donāt NEED to keep cleaning them! Maybe I should just take an ad out, will clean tack for freeā¦
Not without full-on demolition, and I donāt think she would agree that retrieving saddle soap warrants tearing down her wall (barn is a year old!). :lol:
Ordered the vanilla citrus last night! I had to bring my beloved sugar & spice soap out to the barn to clean tack, and am using one of my sample size vanilla lavenders to clean browbands @ home.
Set my leather balm on top of the pellet stove last night (my stove has slate decorative pieces on top of it near where we put the pellets in) and it warmed up perfectly and melted to the CWD leather conditioner texture. It was perfect!!! Revived this sad, sad excuse of an Edgewood Figure 8 that I purchased off of ebay. Will have to supply you with before and after pictures- this transformation was crazy!
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Not without full-on demolition, and I donāt think she would agree that retrieving saddle soap warrants tearing down her wall (barn is a year old!). :lol:
Ordered the vanilla citrus last night! I had to bring my beloved sugar & spice soap out to the barn to clean tack, and am using one of my sample size vanilla lavenders to clean browbands @ home.[/QUOTE]
Can you get a broomstick or something and put a big ole wad of duct tape, or better yet, Gorilla tape, all over the end and see if you canāt get it stuck onto the container and bring it up?
Hhhhhhmmmm, you might be onto something there, Mosey. Although, I wonder if the container would be too heavy? Itās still really full. I looked down b/w the walls last night, and itās so covered in shavings dust you can barely see it (BO uses the pelleted bedding). Poor lost vanilla mint soapāyou are gone but not forgotten.
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Hhhhhhmmmm, you might be onto something there, Mosey. Although, I wonder if the container would be too heavy? Itās still really full. I looked down b/w the walls last night, and itās so covered in shavings dust you can barely see it (BO uses the pelleted bedding). Poor lost vanilla mint soapāyou are gone but not forgotten.[/QUOTE]
How far down is it? Could you maybe use two long things (yardstick, pitchfork handle), figure out some way to attach tape sticky-side-out on one end of each, and try to pick it up that way? It would combine pinching and stickiness. But first, stick a broom in there to get rid of as much dust as possible!
This is the horse-related version of the chicken stuck in the oven :lol:.
Is there a wall on either side that you could stick the end of the broom on one side and then āwalkā it up the wall? See, Iām the kind of person, I would persevere until I won because, um, I have to win :lol:
What about a wire hangar with the end shaped into a loop just big enough to wrangle the saddle soap?
This IS like the chicken in the oven! :lol:
BO & I tried to get something in there @ the bottom between the boards, but there wasnāt enough room. And the problem w/the coat hanger is that it would be too short. I thought for sure the long grabby stick thing-y would work, but it was just a few inches short. A broom handle would probably be long enough, but then I have to have a way to grab/stick-y it.
Whereās MacGyver when ya need him?! :lol:
Can you duct tape the coat hanger device onto the broom handle?
I am disappointed in you, Frizzle :lol:
Not really though :winkgrin:
Okay, maybe a tiny bitā¦
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