Usually we will wear shoes, but a pair of shoes from the beginning to wear bad discarded, how many people will be inside and outside the leather shoes thoroughly cleaned? In everyone's impression, leather shoes can not be cleaned, just the appearance of leather shoes with a towel wipe, playing shoe oil, looking bright can be.

In everyone's eyes, leather shoes maintenance cleaning can only be completed by the shoe store, their own home can not be operated, in fact, as long as the mastery of the method, for ordinary leather shoes, we can clean and maintain their own home, and the effect is not worse than the shoe store.

Here I will give you an introduction to how to clean and maintain ordinary leather shoes.

The ordinary leather shoes mentioned here refers to the general glossy leather shoes (leather surface is not too easy to absorb water), aniline and semi-aniline leather shoes (leather surface is easy to absorb water, after absorbing water, the color becomes darker). These two types of shoes are more common, we often wear the basic are these two types.

First, the cleaning of glossy leather shoes

The surface of glossy leather shoes is not easy to absorb water, cleaning and maintenance is relatively easy, first of all, use a hard brush to brush the soles and edges of the shoes clean, and then use neutral detergent to wet a towel with water to wipe the surface of the shoes.

Shoe edge gap can be discarded toothbrush dipped in detergent water brush, shoes with a wet towel can not wipe clean place, can also be used to brush the toothbrush. At the same time to prepare a dry towel, in a timely manner, the surface of the leather shoes to wipe clean the water that remains, so as not to stay a long time to avoid water infiltration of leather.

Conditional can use leather cleaning agent plus leather washing additives (can be bought on the market) to replace the neutral detergent, the effect is better, more effective protection shoes.

Second, aniline and semi-aniline leather shoes cleaning

The characteristics of these shoes is relatively soft leather, and easy to absorb water, absorb water color will become darker, if the absorption of water is not uniform, to be dry shoes, the color will be inconsistent, so these shoes are generally not dare to do their own cleaning and maintenance, in fact, as long as this kind of shoes to master the method, cleaning up is also relatively easy.

This kind of leather shoes in the cleaning and maintenance of the time, we are also the first will be the sole with a hard bristle brush brushing clean, special attention should be paid to the process of brushing, try not to sprinkle water to the upper, if the sole is not too dirty, you can use a wet towel to wipe, so that you can avoid the upper spilled on the water.

After the soles and edges of the shoes are cleaned, use a soft bristle brush to dip into the water with neutral detergent, and brush the shoes one by one, don't get too much water on the soft bristle brush, after brushing a piece of the shoes, use a dry towel to dry it in time, so that the whole shoe is shampooed, the water on the upper will not be too much, and it's very uniform, and it won't produce watermarks when it's dried out.

Because this kind of shoes are more prone to absorb water, the leather will be dry and hard after absorbing water, it is best to use leather cleaning agent and leather washing additives mixed to scrub, can effectively add fat to the shoes, and prevent the shoes from becoming hard.

Third, the inner cleaning

Generally our shoes if not sent to the shoe store to wash, their own home will rarely go to clean the inside of leather shoes. Leather shoes lining leather, imitation hair, real hair and other categories, cleaning different categories of methods are not the same, but are relatively simple.

If the shoe lining is leather or imitation wool, available neutral detergent to water will be wet towel, towel to wipe can be, if it is real hair, available towel dipped in alcohol to wipe, wipe with a hairdryer after blowing dry can be.

Fourth, leather shoes maintenance

Leather shoes after cleaning, the last process is maintenance, glossy leather and aniline semi-aniline leather shoes maintenance method. Leather shoes maintenance is mainly to the leather oiling, supplemental grease, to avoid leather aging, to extend the service life.

Maintenance we use a little better shoe polish can be, glossy leather maintenance is relatively simple, as long as the selection of similar color shoe polish, with a soft brush evenly brushed on the surface of the shoes, let it dry for 10 minutes or so, with a polishing cloth can be polished.

For aniline semi-aniline leather shoes, in the maintenance process to master certain skills, otherwise the shoe polish brush is not uniform, the final shoe color will be deep a shallow piece, and it is difficult to recover. In the oiling of such shoes, the color of the selected shoe polish must be lighter than the color of the shoe itself, if there is no suitable, you can use white shoe polish to tone the color.