If you are living in a climate where you should be oiling your
boots, you should be oiling your gloves! Well oiled leather has most of the mini pores in the leather coated
with ''Snow proof'', ''mink oil'', ''
petroleum jelly'' true animal oils should probably be avoided as too tempting to all kinds of rodents. As the leather remains supple the
pores stay small, dry dirty gloves get stiff and tear between adjacent pore spaces and then that pair is nearly done !
Try this as an experiment ! Grab ether a plastic glove like for food service workers, or better a Nitrile Examination glove our a long sleeve vets exam glove and place it
on one hand ONLY, and then a regular pair of gloves, You are reducing direct contact with your soon to be wet glove and trapping a little warm air next to your
skin. O. K., some of you have now done this as a thought experiment, but try it for real, at least an hour ! You will be converted !
This system works best in two scenarios, warmly dressed, lots of standing around, little or no reason to take off your gloves ! OR More strenuous work that requires
you to take off an outer layer and your gloves both to keep from soaking in your own sweat and then there is the need to do fine work without gloves on your hand !
Bigger gloves with lite inserts that can be changed several times a day will help keep to outer leather glove at least semi dry, and that will help longevity !
I am always in favor of mittens over gloves every day, and they are a standard part of my kit, with the string going from mitten to mitten through my coat at 10ºF
My wrist covering cuffs come with a thumb loop to keep them snugged up, When wearing an outside coat, I find that I am in no danger of doing damage to my sleeves
but I may loosen the thumb loop on my dominate hand while reaching !
We all carry the meme of the kid who stuck his tongue on the flag pole around in our head, it is possible to do that trick to your damp hands in cold weather !this is a
good place for those cheap lite cotton clean room inspection gloves.
You should always have a pair right next to the replacement headlight bulb in your car! Installing one of those bulbs after you have left sweat and skin oils is a good
way to get that bulb to last for minutes instead of years !