I was given a small tube of Lubriplate about 30 years ago. When I have get an urge to do so, I put the smallest amount of the stuff on a clean patch and apply it, and then do everything I can to remove it with another clean patch. Then I'll take that patch and wipe a couple of other bolts and what-have-yous.
After 30-some years, the tube is still mostly full. A wee bit of Lubriplate has gone a long long way.
Most of the time, when I clean a rifle, I clean with Ed's Red which has ATF in it.
