How to maintain leather shoes, how to maintain leather shoes?

1. Leather shoes should not be exposed to the sun and roasted with fire. The upper leather of leather shoes is afraid of exposure to the sun and cannot be baked near the stove or other heat sources, because exposure and baking will quickly volatilize the oil inside the leather, making the leather hard, causing the leather fibers to break easily. If there is heavy sweat and moisture in the shoes, dry them in a place with the sun on your back.

2. Leather shoes should be avoided from being soaked in oil. The general rubber sole of various leather shoes is afraid of oil, because the general rubber will expand and twist after being soaked in oil, although the oil resistance of plastic soles and rubber and plastic soles is strong, but it is not suitable to soak in oil, so as not to cause glue leather shoes to open the glue. Do not add too much grease to the upper leather, so as not to migrate the grease to the upper and sole and affect the bonding strength.

3. Leather shoes should avoid contact with acid and alkali. The durable acid and alkali corrosion resistance of leather is not strong, especially not resistant to alkali corrosion, alkali can not only destroy the coating layer on the surface of leather shoes, but also burn the fiber tissue of leather.

4. Leather shoes should be moisture-proof and mildew-proof.

5. After the sole and heel are worn, they should be sent to the repair department for repair as soon as possible.

Step 1: Use a horsehair brush to remove the dust. This step does not use water (otherwise it will be mud), and the upper, upper, and edge of the sole should be carefully brushed, especially the part where the sole is connected to the upper, which is easy to accumulate dust.

If your shoes are handmade leather shoes with leather soles, then remember to brush the soles as well).

Step 2: For stubborn stains, you can only wipe them with a soft cloth dipped in water. If necessary, you can dip your old soft-bristled toothbrush in water (don't dip it in too much water), and then wipe it dry with a dry cloth.

This is what it looks like after wiping. Because the shoes have been waxed before, they look clean too. (Brogues, carved holes are also easy to accumulate dust, you can use a toothpick to gently pick it).

Step 3: Then it's time to oil. Use a small brush to dip in shoe polish and spread evenly across the upper.

Don't apply too much shoe polish (unless your shoes haven't been oiled for a long, long time).

The ** in the back is the effect of applying shoe polish. Apply every part of the shoe to and evenly, especially the areas that are easy to overlook.

Don't worry, give it 5 minutes to rest after applying shoe polish, so that the nutrients of shoe polish can slowly penetrate into the skin, so as to have the nourishing effect of "spa".

Step 4: Next, you will use a polishing brush to polish your shoes. The glazing brush is a bristle brush. Exercise your arms and start polishing it!

Varnishing completed. It's not dirty anymore. Most of my friends shine their shoes at home, and it may be over at this point. Even in the small shoe-shine shop outside, this step is a standard finishing action.

Step 5: The three things used: shoe wax, soft cloth, and water.

This step may have to be repeated many times, and it is also a great pleasure for a friend to rub the upper of the shoe into a mirror effect.

Wrap both fingers in a soft cloth (in foreign countries, some people come directly with their bare hands, saying that this makes the waxing process feel better, but I haven't tried it yet).

Press twice with your middle finger on the bottle, dip your fingers in one or two drops of water, then drop them onto the upper, and then use a soft cloth to make two or three circles on the shoe wax to stick the shoe wax. This will wax the upper.

Wipe the wax, dip it in water, make a circular motion on the upper and rub the wax evenly. And then repeatedly.

This is the effect of applying six layers of wax. The shoe on the left foot is noticeably brighter.