Cleaning Leather and Goretex Gloves

[HogHog]

As it says in the title.....

Anyone got any good experiences of how to clean leather and goretex gloves.?

 

[wozalldisden]

Use a simple liquid anti-bac hand soap. Something along the lines of Carex Sensitive Anti-Bac soap so there's no moisturisers or aloe vera, perfumes etc added.
Put a fair bit on your hands and then put the gloves on and rub the soap in to the lining. Leave for 5 to 10 mins then rinse thoroughly by filling the glove with cold water. Repeat if the gloves are really smelly.

GENTLY squeeze to remove excess water, DON'T wring them or you could damage the Goretex membrane. Stick your hands back in to reshape the glove then just peg out on the washing line and drip dry. You could use a hairdryer to speed things up but don't dry them on the radiator or the leather will go like cardboard

Buy some cheap silk or cotton glove liners and it's much easier to keep them clean rather than washing the leather glove

I use Nikwax Glove Proof on the outside of the glove

 

[HogHog]

Use a simple liquid anti-bac hand soap. Something along the lines of Carex Sensitive Anti-Bac soap so there's no moisturisers or aloe vera, perfumes etc added.
Put a fair bit on your hands and then put the gloves on and rub the soap in to the lining. Leave for 5 to 10 mins then rinse thoroughly by filling the glove with cold water. Repeat if the gloves are really smelly.

GENTLY squeeze to remove excess water, DON'T wring them or you could damage the Goretex membrane. Stick your hands back in to reshape the glove then just peg out on the washing line and drip dry. You could use a hairdryer to speed things up but don't dry them on the radiator or the leather will go like cardboard

Buy some cheap silk or cotton glove liners and it's much easier to keep them clean rather than washing the leather glove

I use Nikwax Glove Proof on the outside of the glove

Thanks for the reply - I'll try that - saw a similar thing on 'tInternet, but it didn't have the good advice about the type of soap to use. Will pick up some Carex at the Supermarket later.
Cheers.
Sam

 

[bowser]

Thanks for the reply - I'll try that - saw a similar thing on 'tInternet, but it didn't have the good advice about the type of soap to use. Will pick up some Carex at the Supermarket later.
Cheers.
Sam

any pure soap, you can spend a shit load on the nikwax soloution, or by a packet of soap flakes, used to use Lux but that has gone now, boots do soap flakes for a couple of quid a pack.

 

[Wapping]

If, as can sometimes happen, your leather (non-Goretex) gloves dry out during the winter:

Put the gloves on

Squirt a LITTLE hand cream (Neutragena is excellent) into the palms and work it into the gloves

Job done

PS I have also done the same with Goretex lined gloves. Just take it steady as you don't want to risk blocking the Gortex pores. The chances of it happening though are fairly low.

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When I clean my Daytona boots I use Daytona's own polish. It's not cheap but a LITTLE goes a long way. Apply it, let it dry and then buff up. Easy. Job done.

At the same time I use the brush used to apply the Dayton polish to my boots to brush over my gloves. As the polish is pretty sticky before it dries, I find that just running the 'on-brush' over is sufficient to wax the gloves. Leave the polish on the gloves to dry and soak in, feeding the gloves' leather. Brush up with the 'off-brush' when you brush up your boots.

How long to leave the boots and gloves for the polish to dry? I leave it anywhere between an hour to a week, depending on when I get around to buffing the boots and gloves up.

Works for me.... Hopefully it will work for you.