Conditioner for boot leather inner lining?

Hello,

I bought a pair of La Sportiva Pamir boots with a leather inner lining. The care instructions specified treating the lining with Lexol or saddle soap. I could find neither where I live so I wrongly figured I could make do with just cleaning the leather with a wet rag after every use. After 3 years and about 60 days of hiking in the boots, the inner leather started to crack and form ragged holes. It’s a pity since the boots are otherwise awesome and the outside of the boots, which I took care of well with Nikwax cream, is almost like new. If only I had taken better care of the lining they would have lasted me another 5 years easily.

So now I ordered a new pair and this time I want to give them the full TLC. But since I cannot find Lexol where I live and it would be a hassle to order it, I would like your advice on alternative products. La Sportiva customer service was of no help. The products I can find locally are: Simoniz Leather Care, Sonax, Leatherique, Meguiar's Gold Class, Mafra. Are you familiar with any of these and do you think they would be suitable? What should I look for in a suitable product?

More detailed descriptions of these can be found here:

amazon.co.uk/Simoniz-183166…
sonax.com/Product-Search/%2…
amazon.com/Leatherique-Reju…
meguiars.com/en/automotive/…
amazon.it/Mafra-Trattamento…

Also, how often should I apply the conditioner to the lining? As in, once how many days of hiking or months overall?

Mink oil, fantastic stuff, Frequency depends how often you wear them you should never wear a leather lined boots daily you need to give the leather time to dry out between uses, once a month should be sufficient using more or less as appropriate.

Alex Toma wrote:So now I ordered a new pair and this time I want to give them the full TLC. But since I cannot find Lexol where I live and it would be a hassle to order it,...

This makes no sense to me. OK to order boots but "a hassle" to order a bottle of leather conditioner?

amazon.com/Lexol-1013-Leath…

If you can find a shop that sells horse tack/supplies, they will have Lexol or something similar.

Yeah I would have to order Lexol from abroad. I don't live in the US. I can only find the aforementioned brands domestically.