Hi, I'm Kirby Allison founder of The Hanger Project.
Here at The Hanger Project we love helping
the well-dressed take care of their wardrobes.
We often receive the question from customers,
is the Saphir Medaille d'Or shoe
polish really the best?
The short answer is absolutely
yes and the purpose of
today's video is to show you
the difference of Saphir Medaille
d'Or versus the other commonly
available shoe polishes that you can find
here in the United States.
If you have any questions during this video please
ask them in the comments section below.
I get back to all those questions personally
and love hearing the questions from our viewers.
Saphir Medaille d'Or is widely
considered to be the best shoe polish in
the world by shoe aficionados
and the reason is because
of the ingredients that Saphir uses
in creating this really special
shoe polish. At its most fundamental level
Saphir Medaille d'Or is different because it
suffered none of the technical
progressions of modern polishes.
It doesn't use any silicones,
it doesn't use any petroleum byproducts.
Instead it uses only the finest
all natural ingredients to create
an absolutely fantastic shoe polish
that not only produces a fantastic shine
but is going to nourish
and condition your shoes
to ensure that the leather stays soft
and supple over a long period of time.
The Saphir Pommadier cream polish uses
seven different types of waxes
and a shea butter in order to provide
a high quality shine
and long lasting deep nourishment.
This is important because it allows the polish
to do a better job rejuvenating
the finish or the patina of your shoes
and with 14 different colors
you can find that perfect match to
your shoes.
The Saphir Medaille d'Or Pate
De Luxe introduces those harder waxes
like montan wax
and beeswax that produce
that high shine
and more importantly if you pursue
it that mirror shine.
So the combination of different types of
waxes and the high quality
of these waxes produce a long
lasting shine that you you'll find
last longer than what you get
with ordinary polishes.
Now the difference with the Saphir Medaille
d'Or shine is that if you see
that it dulls a little bit a simple rebuffing
with the horse hair brush is all that you need
to rejuvenate that shine
and renew it.
You're going to find that it's longer lasting
and it's going to stay looking better
longer. The difference you find
with the competing shoe polishes is
for one they use a petroleum based
turpentine that over time is going
to actually cause the leather to break
down
and some of them even use silicones
which can produce a clogging
of the pores that leads to the cracking
of the leather.
With the Saphir Medaille d'Or you don't have to
worry about any of that because all of them
use again an all natural pine-base
turpentine, no silicones
and only the highest quality ingredients to
nourish and feed the leather.
You also find a much greater variety
and higher quality of waxes
that's going to produce the shine that you want
in your dress shoes.
One of the things that I really love to do here at The Hanger
Project in order to demonstrate the
difference in quality of the Saphir
Medaille d'Or shoe polish is to smear
them onto a white piece of paper.
Now what this is going to allow us to do
is to actually showcase how
more effective the Saphir shoe polishes
are at penetrating the leather
and delivering nourishment.
So I've got a white piece of paper here
and you can see there's no tricks just
a simple white piece of paper
and you can do this at home
with your polishes also.
And so I've got the Saphir wax polish
and I'm just going to take this
with my finger
right
and smear it
onto
this piece of paper.
OK.
Now you can see almost immediately
it's beginning to penetrate that paper
and you can see it actually penetrating
through the paper
and saturating it.
So here I have the Lincoln shoe polish.
Now I'm using all these neutral just because
it allows us to better see this effect.
This is a new 10.
Now all of the
American made shoe polishes,
there's no question that Lincoln is probably
the best of what's available.
It has a really nice high quality wax
but again part of the problem
with the Lincoln is it's using,
and you can smell it,
is this petroleum based turpentine.
So again you can see the
Lincoln actually did a good job penetrating
that paper similar to the
Sapir Medaille d'Or
but the turpentines
in this are petroleum based.
So the Kiwi I'm just getting a little bit of this
on my finger,
I'm going to smear that.
And with the wax polish again
we're getting a little bit of penetration
but not nearly as much as the Lincoln
and the Lincoln not nearly as much
with the Saphir Medaille d'Or.
So of these three polishes,
again the Saphir Medaille
d'Or is going to do the best in order of penetrating
the leather and delivering those nourishments.
It's also going to have a much higher quality of
long lasting kind of
wax concentration.
But the Lincoln is honestly,
you know a close second
but it's going to be using a petroleum based
turpentine versus the all natural pine
based turpentine
and then of the three you know the
Kiwi certainly
smells the most toxic of the
three. I think that Lincoln actually adds
a perfume
if I remember correctly
and has the least amount of
waxes, so if you have
a high quality pair of shoes that you care about,
I would never let someone use a Kiwi wax
on those.
Lincoln is OK
but again here The Hanger Project we certainly
maintain that the Sapir Medaille d'Or is
the highest quality
and it's certainly the most pleasant to work with.
And so the reason that a petroleum based turpentine
is bad for your leather shoes is that
the petroleum product is going
to actually break down those
those kind of fat
and liquids that you have
in a natural leather.
And so over time you know
it certainly leads to the degradation
of the leather itself.
Now that's not to say that if you polish a pair
of shoes with the Lincoln shoe polish
or even a Kiwi you're going to immediately
ruin them.
But if you're someone that's really investing in high
quality footwear
and you're asking yourself how can I take
the best care of these shoes as possible?
You absolutely are going to be taking better
care of your shoes with the Saphir Medaille d'Or
than you would Lincoln
and especially more than you would be
with kiwi.
The second thing to remember is again the
availability of pigment colors
and then the quality of the waxes
used in the polish itself
are going to again produce a higher
quality shine that's longer
lasting
and that's going to re-shine
and re-buff more easily
with the simple use of a horse hair brush.
So next we're going to demonstrate the difference between
the Saphir Medaille d'Or Pommadier
cream polish,
the Meltonian cream polish
and the Kelly shoe cream.
So I'm going to do the same thing
with the Saphir cream polish that I did
with the wax.
I'm going to take a little bit on my finger
and I'm just going to smear
it onto
this swatch.
Now you can see that's immediately penetrating
into that that paper
and you can see how it's fully saturating
that paper.
The fact that it's turning darker in the
same way that if you took a drop of water
on the paper is just showing
that the polish is penetrating
into the leather to deliver that
nourishment.
Now if I do this
with the Meltonian,
you're going to see a dramatically different
effect.
So Meltonian is
primarily water based
and so as you can see
again I'm not doing any
tricks here. I've got this on my finger.
I'm rubbing it onto the paper
and you can see that it's hardly
penetrating that paper at all.
So if you're polishing your shoes
with the Meltonian shoe polish
you're essentially just rubbing something on
the surface of the shoe
that's not doing anything to nourish
and protect the leather itself.
And over time again as this
accumulates on top of the leather
it's going to cause the leather to crack.
The Kelly shoe cream is really similar
to the Meltonian in that it's a water
based formulation
and is not going to
actually penetrate
the surface of the leather to do anything.
Now here you're saying I
rubbed a pretty generous amount on top
of the paper and it's not even penetrating
the paper at all.
So if the Kellys
and the Meltonian aren't capable of
saturating a piece of computer
paper,
it's certainly not capable of
nourishing your leather
shoes at all.
I mean a great example is a pair of shoes that
I inherited from my grandfather whenever
he passed away.
Beautiful crocodile pair of shoes that you can
see in our "how to shine exotic
leather shoes." Now that's different
than calfskin
but still he properly cared for those
shoes; I was able to nourish them
with the Saphir Reptan whenever I inherited
those and it's a pair of shoes that I
absolutely cherish
and enjoy wearing.
The purpose of this demonstration was to show
you how there is a real quality difference
in the Saphir Medaille d'Or shoe polish,
particularly in the quality
of the solvent or the pine based turpentine
that is used to emulsify
the waxes and allow the polish to actually
penetrate the leather to deliver
those nourishments to feed it.
As you saw with the other shoe creams.
they weren't even able to penetrate
a piece of paper.
You can bet for sure that they're not going to do
anything for your leather dress shoes.
And with the wax polishes you could see that
between the three there was a difference
although it was slightly less pronounced than
in the wax than the cream polishes.
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I'm Kirby Allison founder of The Hanger Project.
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