How to care for shoes: 15 Simple Rules

Clean, beautiful shoes at any time of the year - this is a very important trait in human form. And care for shoes, in general, it is necessary no matter how much it costs. However, how to clean shoes properly, or to protect from damage, they know not all ...

Creams for footwear

Their choice of principle - properly chosen cream can hopelessly spoil a new pair. Experts advise to choose the cream depending on skin type.

Smooth skin

Advance care : Impregnation and protection against moisture and dirt cream; gel supplemented with beeswax to give shine; caring lotion that does not contain solvents; water-repellent polish; colorless wax; a special glove or cloth for polishing

Subsequent cleaning : Cleansing cream, activating skin color; coloring cream of different colors; compact sponge for cleaning

Patent leather

Advance care Butter, preserves gloss and prevent cracking; protecting spray

Subsequent cleaning : Cloth soft tissue.

Surfaces with a pile: suede, nubuck, velor

Advance care : Impregnating agent with a sponge-packing; water-repellent spray

Subsequent cleaning : Foam stain remover or shampoo for suede; hard sponge, lifting the pile; rubber erasers; rubber brush; coloring cream suede.

How to clean suede shoes

Previously, in order to clean suede shoes They resorted to the next method. A couple of pre-cleaned with a damp cloth and thoroughly clean the rubber brush. Once dry, brush to clean suede shoes needed again.

Nowadays Suede Shoes are believed to suffer from environmental pollution is much more strongly. And just a rubber brush is not enough. For cleaning, for example, use the skins. Suede have to rub very gently, and then the skin will not spoil, but only ruffled the pile and clean the dirt.

Yet there is a way to glue. It requires some skill. A thin layer of adhesive must be applied to the glass surface and after drying to roll up into a ball, which can be clean suede shoes   as the brush - all the dirt sticking to it.

From ready-cleaners using a special eraser - eraser. In addition, there are special brushes that are made from one side of the rubber "fingers" - clean the surface, and the other has a metal pile is for combing suede. Suede Shoes are well cleaned, if its hold over steam, then clean is such a special brush.

Available in a number of cleaners suede shoe-cleaners and foam that deep clean nappy material and restore the brightness of the color. After cleaning, it is desirable to treat suede repellent.

If suede Easterly, you can tint it ordinary carbon paper. However, this method is good for most black shoes only.

Oily stains from suede virtually no output.

Soles must be protected!

All experts in a voice say that after buying new shoes, you need to attend to the prevention of soles, especially in footwear and men's autumn-winter, which suffer the most from the bad weather.

Prevention is that the sole is glued special sticker. It is necessary in the first place for shoes with leather soles, which quickly deteriorates after contact with moisture. Prevention allows leather sole preserve its original state. This procedure does not require preventive labels only shoes with rubber soles on the rubber rest of prevention is worth a paste.

Make prevention is best, after the third or fourth toes of the shoe to the sole bit dispersed. Spend the whole procedure will have somewhere around 15 minutes. But put the taps on a new, not yet erased heels, it is not necessary - the heel will be higher than it should be.

How to stretch the shoes at home

Wet hand with warm water and wipe the shoes inside. Top cover with a couple of whole wet cloth and leave for half an hour. When the skin will soften, and obuytes bit like that shoes took shape.

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