White shoe care

For many years, people believed that it was appropriate to wear white shoes only for weddings, but with the development of modern technology and the emergence of fashion trends, they began to use it in everyday life. Today, light shades are actively pouring into the masses, so every person in the closet definitely has a pair of snow-white sandals, shoes or sneakers. Nowadays, white shoes are worn both in summer and in winter, and even in the rainy off-season. But you need to take into account that caring for white shoes is not an easy task, you can no longer do this with an ordinary wet rag or a sponge with cream. In this article we will try to figure out whether it is really so difficult to care for white leather shoes at home and how to do it right.

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Basic tips for white shoe care

Leather white shoes need special care, but before you learn how to clean it from stubborn dirt and stains, you need to understand how to prevent their occurrence. There are several recommendations, compliance with which will turn care for light shoes into a quick and easy procedure:

• You need to prepare in advance for the first exit to the street in snow-white shoes, namely in the evening treat it with special impregnation that repels water and allow it to dry completely. Then this procedure will need to be repeated periodically in order to preserve the color and elasticity of white skin for a longer period.

Important! Products of Salamander, Silver brands have proven themselves excellently, but you can choose a different brand product that is more suitable for you at a price.

• After each arrival from the street, it is imperative to conduct surface cleaning of such shoes. All you need to do is wipe it with a sponge or cloth soaked in warm water. This will not take you much time, but will save you in the future from looking for a more aggressive cleanser for fair skin.
• Carefully select the care products for white shoes. Such products are characterized by increased softness, which means that the sponges should be with soft nap and without abrasive particles. That is why you can not use the same sponge to clean all the shoes in the house.

Important! You cannot store leather white shoes, sneakers, sandals or boots next to colored shoes, especially black. Otherwise, the white skin will darken and fade.

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Popular ways to clean white leather shoes at home

There are a huge number of methods for washing white shoes yourself, but we will consider the safest and most effective of them. So, quickly and efficiently clean such white leather products.

Soap solution

This method is considered the most obvious, because it is enough to simply pour a little warm water into a bowl and add a few drops of liquid soap or shampoo to it. In this solution, you need to moisten the rag and gently wipe the shoes in a circular motion.

Fresh onions

It is necessary to peel the onion from the husk and cut in half. We unfold the bow with a slice to the surface of the shoe and carefully wipe it. As soon as all of it is moistened with onion liquid, you will need to wipe the skin with a dry cloth. Using this method, you can remove stains and dirt, while the skin itself remains intact.

Important! The only obvious minus of this remedy is the unpleasant smell.But within a few days it will disappear.

Egg white plus milk

This method of cleaning has been tested by more than one generation of housewives, and it is rightly considered the best, because these ingredients are always in the refrigerator of any person. In addition, they are natural, have an excellent cleansing effect and give the shoe a whiteness, radiance.

So, you need to take one egg white, gently mix it with half a glass of milk. The resulting mixture needs to treat the surface of dirty shoes, and the spots will instantly disappear.

Toothpaste or toothpaste

This is an equally effective and efficient method of cleaning white leather shoes. You just need to apply a small ball of paste on an old clean brush, carefully rub the places of contamination.

Important! In the case of snow-white skin, it is still better to use tooth powder, since it consists of more natural components, it does not have any dyes, as in many toothpastes.

Lemon juice

To clean white leather shoes this way:

1. Dilute in a glass of water two tablespoons of lemon juice.
2. Then dip the brush in the resulting solution, wipe areas where there are stains, dirt.

Important! Citric acid acts in the same way as chemical solutions, but only its composition is exclusively natural.

Baking soda

You can’t imagine a better tool, because soda is often used to whiten various surfaces, products, and even to brighten teeth. To clean leather white shoes, you need to prepare a solution of water and soda in a ratio of one to one. Immediately after processing, let the surface dry completely.

Eraser

It's hard to believe, but the most ordinary white eraser copes with the removal of point pollution.

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How to deal with more complex stains on white leather shoes?

All of the above methods, of course, are effective, but this is not a panacea, they only help to regularly care for such products and eliminate current pollution. Next, we will learn how and how to clean white leather boots at home, when the spots are too deeply ingrained in the material, for example, traces of rust or a ballpoint pen.

Such cases are considered more complicated, but in principle, nothing is impossible here. Below we provide a list of proven in practice aggressive agents used to clean the most difficult contaminants:

• Nail polish remover.
• Oxygen bleach.
• Hydrogen peroxide.
• Refined gasoline.
• Acetone.

Important! All these substances are quite effective, but at the same time aggressive, so you need to use them with extreme caution.

All of them are used according to the standard scheme: a cotton pad or a piece of cloth is dipped in the selected liquid, local pollution is wiped until it disappears completely, then the surface is treated with an aqueous solution. Drying shoes after such treatment is better in the fresh air.

Important! Never dry white leather items in the sun, otherwise they will turn yellow very quickly. To speed up the drying process, you can not use a battery, because of this, the shoes begin to crack.

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Now you know how to look after white shoes at home. Depending on the degree of contamination, you can choose for yourself what and how to clean. But remember that you only need to use soft sponges and gloves.