What Makes Chamois Leather So Special?
Chamois is a vital tool that is used by motorists across the world every day, yet many are completely ignorant of where this unique material comes from and why it is so good and doing what it does. The leather itself (sometimes sold as a pad or mitten rather than as a cloth) is used for rubbing down a fogged up windscreen on a cold day, wiping away bugs from your vehicle, and even cleaning and waxing. A real chamois leather has several properties unique to this material that make it so useful, as a natural product it is full of pores that can stretch and expand to accommodate a tremendous amount of liquid, and as yet no synthetic substances have been able to replicate that unique chamois leather feel that comes with a natural product. One historic use of chamois leather than has continued to this day is for filtering fuel in emergency situations. When the cloth is soaked with petrol it will stop allowing water to pass through itself, this makes any natural chamois ideal for filtering p
