I am interested in Shoe Polishes Making. Pls link me to any functional Websites for raw materials and Recipes.

Polish type includes Wax/sovent polish, Cream polish, Emulsion Polish or any available Polish types

I am interested in Shoe Polishes Making. Pls link me to any functional Websites for raw materials and Recipes.
Shoe polish is a mixture of pigments that provide color (for fixing scuffed places on the leather)and various oils and greases that make the leather soft and supple.Shoe polish is usually made from ingredients including naphtha, lanolin, wax (often Carnauba wax), gum arabic and (if required) a colourant.It has a specific gravity of 0.8, is negligibly soluble in water, and is made of between 65 and 77 percent volatiles.If I were making my own shoe polish,I%26#039;d start off with beeswax and neatsfoot oil, with perhaps a dab of oil-paint pigment in an appropriate color. Carnuba wax is another that%26#039;s used, and this can often be found in floor wax and car wax as well.


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Neutral Colour Shoe Polish


To make a neutral-colour, home-made shoe polish, you would need:


Soap flakes 30 g (1 oz)


Potassium carbonate 15 g (0.5 oz)(Obtain from chemist/pharmacist)


Beeswax 150 g (5oz)


Gum arabic powder 15 g (0.5 oz)


Icing sugar 45 g (1.5 oz)


Slice the beeswax and add to 568 ml (a pint) of water. Stir in the soap flakes and potassium carbonate. Boil until a smooth paste. Whilst the mixture is still hot (turn off the heat, but act quickly), add and stir the gum arabic powder and icing sugar. For a specifically black polish, 280 g (10 oz) of charcoal powder from the chemist may be added at this stage.


In recent history the black colour comes from an aniline dye. The next recipe indicates that nigrosene (generically, a black dye made from oxidised aniline) was domestically procurable in the 1940s.


Note that the above recipe uses potassium carbonate (potash) whereas the following recipe uses potassium bicarbonate, which is not potash. Imperial Measures are in brackets.


Black Shoe Polish


120 g (1/4 lb) beeswax


284 ml (1/2 pint) turpentine


22 g (3/4 oz) bicarbonate of potassium


30 g (1 oz) nigrosene


4.5 l (8 pints) boiling water


Melt wax in boiling water and stir in the potassium, using a large pot to allow for the mixture foaming up. Dissolve the nigrosene in a little cold water and stir it in thoroughly, bring to the boil, and simmer gently for some minutes, stirring it until it creams. Take mixture off the fire, and stir in the turpentine. Put away in small tins, tightly closed.





[ ... p194: ] N.B.- In following recipes which contain kerosene, methylated spirit, turpentine, petrol, benzine or any other inflammable ingredient, great care must be observed to avoid making preparation near a lighted stove or naked flame of any kind.





[p192,194 The New P.W.M.U. Cookery Book, 1941, Presbyterian Women%26#039;s Missionary Union of Victoria (Australia)]



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