2) To Maintain Leather

You may have heard of neatsfoot oil, an animal by product made from the legs and shins of cattle used to condition leather. But, sometimes a mixture of lard or tallow and beeswax (called dubbin) was used for this same purpose. Today the risk of lard going bad is enough to stop most people from applying it to their leather goods.

Via/ Library of Congress

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