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Mildew on leather footwear: MSE Forum appears to have come up trumps!
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Teapot55
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Dismayed to discover white mildew/ mould again on my expensive leather boots 
Good old MSE: looks like I might have found the answer on here so I’ll be buying some Tea Tree Oil!
As in this original very helpful (closed) post from 2008 - yes really - I will report back in three months or so: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/701521/mould-on-footwear/p2
(I’d nourished them a while back with proper lanolised leather dressing and stored them on ‘boot trees’ in a warm-ish upstairs room. They remain lovely and nourished & supple but the outsides of the uppers and the faced leather at the top inside were covered in mildew.
It all came off easily with a damp cloth.
Now to source Tea Tree Oil!)
Good old MSE: looks like I might have found the answer on here so I’ll be buying some Tea Tree Oil!
As in this original very helpful (closed) post from 2008 - yes really - I will report back in three months or so: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/701521/mould-on-footwear/p2
(I’d nourished them a while back with proper lanolised leather dressing and stored them on ‘boot trees’ in a warm-ish upstairs room. They remain lovely and nourished & supple but the outsides of the uppers and the faced leather at the top inside were covered in mildew.
It all came off easily with a damp cloth.
Now to source Tea Tree Oil!)
would've . . . could've . . . should've . . .
A.A.A.S. (Associate of the Acronym Abolition Society)
There's definitely no 'a' in 'definitely'.
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