RawlingsGLOVOLIUM Glove Treatment Products | Baseball/Softball | Multiple Options

Fantastic for gloves! Vaseline has its place as a great conditioner and preservative protecting from moisture and sweat. BUT if too much applied can turn a $500 glove into a heavy brick. Use both. But Vaseline very sparingly and maybe just the “pocket” and inside where the hand meets the clove leather thinly applied. Gloveoleum the rest and G2G…

Easy to apply and great price!

I'll get the bad news out of the way first. Rawlings Glovolium is a great product that slowly has been surpassed by other glove oils, balms, but ...It still has its uses. Depending on your style of breaking a baseball glove in, if you like to use Aso's (glove guru), from Wilson Gloves method, you can use this instead of water. I personally have broken in over 100 gloves in my life. Maybe 20 were mine, a dozen or so for my kids and the rest were kids that play in the leagues my kids play in. I wouldn't compare myself to Aso, but it's not uncommon for one of the neighborhood kids to knock on the front door and ask if I can break his/her glove in. A big part of being able to break a glove in quickly and efficiently is understanding what you're trying to accomplish.I like to start the break-in of any glove with Rawlings Glovolium. It's thin, almost water-like and it loosens the leather up for bending, hitting with a glove mallet, anything that is working on loosening up the middle (palm) of the glove and making break points in the leather. You'll be hard-pressed to find anything that works better than Glovolium for that.I will give one warning. My favorite personal glove, I'm 41 and played baseball for 20+ years, is a Nokona Walnut 12". I did not use Glovolium on it. The leather used on the Nokona Walnut is soft and supple from the start. It doesn't need loosened up.Which is the downside to Glovolium. Nokona's glove conditioner is my favorite of these products. Wilson's glove oil is a little thicker than Glovolium, which gives you more to work with when applying it. The various balms are all a little better at breaking in a tougher glove than the Glovolium, but it's still very useful as a first step. Great price on it here at Amazon in the XL size. I prefer using it on Rawlings, Mizuno and mid-tier or lower Wilson's. In short, I don't use it on higher-end gloves. It's just not a thick enough consistency.The upside is it's not going to damage your glove. Even if it doesn't break it in good enough, it will at least, make an old glove have some pop to it again and make a new glove a lot easier to work with in the breaking in period. I would recommend it most for those who are more into the natural breaking in process of playing many hours of catch. It will soften the leather for you and make that process a little smoother.

The media could not be loaded. It softened my new Rawlings sandlot glove, and it absorbed right into the leather without leaving any greasiness whatsoever, so it works perfectly. It did darken the leather quite a bit permanently though so if you really want to preserve the original color of a new glove, get a different product.

I had a few old baseball gloves & it really helped revive them. It really works.

This worked out great for my grandsons new glove . It has a nice consistency to work with & rubs in well . On a cloth we applied a layer , tied the glove with a ball enclosed over a few days . We repeated 3 times & it developed a rounded pocket & the glove was easy to hold . It darkened the leather slightly but not alot . We didn’t even use the whole bottle , I’d say it was a good value & did a good job on the glove . The leather feels supple & conditioned . Very convenient to use with a snap top .

Very pleased with this item. Value for $

Applied it 3 times to a new glove, didn’t feel any different, even took a rubber mallet to the glove. Figure the glove will break in with just normal use anyway.