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To make skin waterproof, use liquid and solid fats, which are used either separately or in a mixture with each other. They must meet the following requirements: to penetrate as deep as possible into the skin, to make the latter flexible and soft and not to impart any undesirable features to it. For such impenetrable ointments, all vegetable and animal fats and oils with a weak acid reaction, and various types of wax with and without resin are suitable.

Drying oils, although mentioned in many recipes for this purpose, should be avoided as they make the skin stiff and brittle over time. The use of glycerin is useless, as it is extracted from the skin with water. Mineral oils don't work either. Over time, due to the action of water, the impermeability of the skin is lost, so the lubrication should be repeated from time to time. We offer the following remedy for making the skin impenetrable. Dissolve yellow beeswax in gasoline until saturation, heat the solution in a water bath and add 1/10 of melted spermaceti to it. The frozen mass is stored in jars and used as follows; melted in a water bath, it is applied to the skin with a brush or brush. The skin should be dry and slightly warm. The ointment penetrates deep into the skin and, in addition, forms a thin layer on its surface. The latter does not interfere with cleaning cream.

There is another composition, which has been tested in a number of experiments and gave very good results: it is a mixture of 50 weight parts of mutton fat, melted over a light fire, 49 parts of linseed oil and 1 weight part of turpentine. The composition is applied to dry and not cold skin. This ointment is especially suitable for hunting boots and, moreover, both in damp, swampy places and in loose, deep snow; in all such cases, it perfectly protects shoes from moisture.

Here is another good composition for making shoes waterproof. They take 1/4 liter of linseed oil and, heating it over low heat, dissolve in it 50 g of fat, 5 g of wax, 5 g of wood resin. This slightly heated mixture is thoroughly lubricated with shoes. The skin from this becomes not only very soft and flexible, but also completely impervious to water.

Any leather shoe can be made waterproof by putting it for several hours in water in which gray soap is dissolved in as much as possible. After drying, the shoes not only retain their original softness, but become even softer; moreover, the soap solution that has penetrated into all the pores of the skin fills them with the resulting fatty acid, which does not let water through at all.

Author: Korolev V.A.

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