Water gloss polish Super Gloss

With a fine polishing brush, like the Burgol Yak Hair Brush or Goat Hair Brush, and a good shoe wax you can create a great shine on leather shoes. But for some shoe aficionados this shine is not enough, they want to reflect themselves in the shoes.

The increase of the shine is called water gloss polish or also Super Gloss. The wax layer on the leather is smoothed more and more until a mirror-like surface is created.

The ingredients are a suitable shoe wax, a suitable polishing cloth and water.

Step 1: Prepare shoes

The best preparing of the shoes is our instruction "Shoecare for smooth leather shoes". A water shine polish requires well cared shoes with a first wax layer on the leather. Otherwise, the water would be absorbed by the leather during subsequent polishing and the effort would be in vain.

Step 2: Polish with shoe wax and water

Water polishing is not a science, you just need some practice and patience.

Wrap the Burgol Polishing Cloth Super Gloss around one or two fingers. The surface of the cloth for polishing on the finger must be smooth and even.

Use the polishing cloth to take up some Burgol Super Gloss. Then take up one or two drops of water. Now polish the wax and water with small circular movements and gentle pressure on the leather.

The previous shine will be lost by the new shoe wax. Polish until a new shine is achieved. The layer of water between the wax layer on the leather and the shoe wax on the polishing cloth reduces friction and smoothes the wax layer. The result is a mirror gloss.