Osmo TopOil - High Solid Oil 3058, Clear Matt, 500ml - Durable Oil for Wooden Kitchen Surfaces, Water-Resistant & Food Safe, Wood Treatment & Wood Finish

Was recommended to use this to protect our wooden shelf. It works a treat and there is plenty left over to retreat the wood in the coming years. The color is good and consistent. Good product.

I have used this now on several projects and will keep on using it because it goes on very easily but produces a superb finish that is very easy to top up when needed. It is designed for kitchen worktops, but I have used it with great success on kitchen tables and chairs, and on children's pine beds when I wanted to bring them back to new. Because it is designed for kitchen surfaces, I have more confidence in its suitability for use with children's furniture, and on using it generally with any other kitchen surface. Once you have stripped off all the previous treatments and gone back to the bare wood, you only need to apply 2 coats, though it will need the best part of 24 hours between coats unless the weather is very warm. The first coat brings back all the beauty in the wood, the second tops off the job. Despite the fact that I used a brush for both coats, there are absolutely no brush marks anywhere and the finish is super smooth and durable. If you do wear though it, or damage the wood, just sand down and re-coat it and it is fine again. I have several current projects lined up for this.

Great product, better then another make that’s meant to do what is says on the tin! My side went white with that product, this product looks great, is waterproof and not faded

This is really good quality oil and easy to apply. I used a cloth and coated my new solid oak kitchen work surfaces three times with it. Its a little expensive but you dont use much each time. It says to allow 8 hours to dry but i found it dries alot quicker which was great. It does not smell to strong when first applied which is also good. I would highly recommend this brand its worth paying the extra money.

Excellent product. Sanded a 8 year old table down to the bare wood using appropriate grades of sandpaper. I applied 3 coats even though 2 was recommended and would have been enough but I thought that if it will be another 8 years then there is no hardship in a third! The matt surface is even and smooth and completely beads water and spills. Highly recommended.

I have had oak kitchen worktops for four years now and have treated them the Danish oil in the past. I decided to give Osmo a try after reading the reviews. I'm so glad I did. Absolutely delighted with the results and so easy to use. I scrubbed my worktops with warm soapy water and allowed them to dry completely, I then sanded them down with grade 80 sandpaper, cleaned that off then finished them off with grade 120 sandpaper. Washed them again and left to dry. After and hour or so I gave the worktops their first coat of Osmo using a brush, I found it easier to put the oil in a paint kettle and apply small amounts using a continuous stroke along the grain of the wood. The oil looked very shiny but after about an hour it began to settle into the wood and left a very subtle sheen. I allowed each coat to dry overnight, you may not have to do this as you could probably coat in the morning and another coat later in the evening, it's just how I did it. I repeated this process another two times, not sanding as much as I did on the first occasion, just a light sand. My worktops look better than they did when new. They feel beautifully smooth and look far more expensive now! The Danish oil I previously used would leave a sticky residue which I would have to buff off and it took a week or so for this to diminish but there is nothing like this with Osmo, worktops are completely dry. I can't recommend it highly enough and will definitely use Osmo from now on.

Very impressed. I've reoiled our kitchen worktops and used a different Tung oil and applied about 8 coats of it in total and still very poor results, remained sticky and poor application in spots and became frustrated so I decided to give this a go. Slighted sanded it down before applying the first coat to prepare it, it dried quickly, easy application of the second coat and looks great and water is beading fine. Would highly recommend this over other brands of oil to save time, money and frustration!

Overall, I’m impressed with this Osmo TopOil 3058 Clear Matt, which I used to re-oil our oak kitchen worktops. One 500ml tin was enough to do two layers everywhere in our medium-sized kitchen, plus a third layer in heavily-used spots. Our worktops were last oiled in 2016 and had become quite patchy, marked and worn in places. I first used a Bosch sander to sand back the existing surface using 80 grit paper, followed by 120 grit. However, it wasn’t very effective at removing the old oil and the sandpaper gummed up quite easily. Two to three slow passes with the hand sander did even out the surface quite nicely, but without fixing the deeper dents/marks. I didn’t want to spend several more hours sanding to get the surface 100% perfect, it’s pretty good as is. Most minor imperfections have been removed. I did see one guy on YouTube using a sharp scraper device to remove the old oil before recoating. It seems much faster than sanding. After sanding, I wiped the surface down with isopropyl alcohol, which removed any loose dust. Then I applied the TopOil in a thin layer using a lint-free cloth, moving in the direction of the wood grain. My technique was to pour a little more oil than necessary, spreading it in long horizontal strokes with the cloth. Then after 20 minutes of letting the oil soak, I went over again, mopping up any excess. This gave a nice even finish and kept the coat nice and thin. I left the first coat to dry overnight and then applied a second coat in the same way the next day. I ended up with a tough, durable finish that’s clearly very water-repellent, with nice tight beads of water on the surface. In June with warm temperatures and good ventilation the worktops definitely felt dry after 8 hours. They may have even been ready to recoat after 6 hours if I’d been in a rush. This oil is clear, so the lighter patches on the worktop (from previous heavy use) are still visible. With hindsight I wish I’d used a tinted oil, such as TopOil Acacia, to help provide a more even colour. But as things are, I’m happy for the slight colour differences in the worktop to be considered as “adding character”. The wife agrees that the worktop looks much better than it did before, I think I’m just being a little perfectionistic. I bet in a couple of weeks I won’t even notice the slight imperfections. A couple of our dogs have a bad habit of jumping up at the worktop and their claws can leave marks along the edge. Will be interesting to see how well the surface holds up once it’s properly cured in a couple of weeks. If the dogs leave any marks in the meantime, it’s reassuring to know I can just apply a little touch up with the oil without needing to sand again. I’ll definitely buy Osmo TopOil again, but next time I’ll use the tinted Acacia variety.