Rules for the care of shoes in winter

The first snow gives us not only joy and good photos on Instagram, but also “porridge” of snow, salt and chemical reagents, contact with which leaves terrible white divorces on leather shoes.





Salt lowers the freezing point of water, causing snow and ice to melt and roads and sidewalks to become less slippery.





On the one hand, it protects us from falls and injuries, on the other hand, it spoils the texture of the skin and suede, making expensive winter shoes unusable.

The actual question “How to clean shoes from salt?” arises annually, because it is not so easy to remove unaesthetic salt divorces (especially with suede). "Site" He'll tell you how to do it.





How to remove salt from leather shoes
  1. Arriving from the street, immediately wipe the leather shoes with a cloth soaked in a small amount of warm water. You do not need to unnecessarily wet your shoes, because salt behaves more actively in a moist environment and this will help it absorb deeper into the pores of the shoes.



    Then wrap the stained areas with paper towels or toilet paper and leave the boots to dry. The salt will be absorbed into the paper. Dried boots with baby cream.

  2. Eliminate saline divorces from leather shoes will help solution of 9% vinegar. Combine vinegar with water in a ratio of 3: 1 and wipe contaminated areas with this remedy.


  3. Castor oil is a popular folk way to fight salt spots. Cleaned and dried shoes with a soft cloth treat castor. If the white spots do not disappear, repeat the procedure.
  4. Rub the stains of salt on the shoes with a flap of soft tissue moistened with ammonia, then treat the surface of the shoes with cream. Before treating shoes with ammonia, try it on a small area of skin on the inside. If the color of the paint does not change, then you can continue.


How to remove salt from suede shoes Suede shoes are very demanding in operation. And it is much more difficult to remove saline divorces from it than from the skin, but it is possible.





  1. Try it. salt off as follows. Put a pot of water on the stove and after boiling the water, hold suede boots over the steam, and then comb with a special dry suede brush. Naturally, the boots need to be dried.
  2. Suede shoes can help ordinary semolina: just sprinkle it with salt divorces. Then brush it. Monca will absorb all the salt, and your favorite suede shoes will be clean again and without white spots.


How to remove salt from nubuk Nubuk is a material that requires special treatment. When buying shoes, it is advisable to immediately purchase special devices and tools designed to care for such material.

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Among the popular cleaners are the following aerosols and foams: Detach Stain, Tarrago de Salter, Salton Antisol and others. It is worth noting that Nubuk is afraid of water and it is not recommended to use it for cleaning products.

Before you start cleaning the surface of the shoe, check the interaction of the material and the selected substance. Treat a small piece of shoes in an invisible place for the eyes.

Care of shoes and prevention of salt stains on it
  1. Professional tools for cleaning shoes in the form of creams, sprays and gels are a good prevention of dirt and salt, but are ineffective for eliminating already formed divorces.
  2. Before each outdoors, leather and suede shoes are recommended to be treated with a water repellent, which can be purchased in a shoe store.


  3. Do not be lazy to remove pollution immediately, coming home or to the office. In addition, dried and absorbed salt is much more difficult to remove, so it also continues to corrode shoes.
  4. This is not always feasible in our environment, but it is not worth wearing the same pair of leather shoes every day. Sweat from the foot penetrates deep into the material from which the shoes are made, and begins to slowly destroy its structure. To completely dry leather shoes from sweat takes 24 hours, and if you walked in it in the snow – two days. Wearing the same shoes or shoes you wore yesterday in the morning prevents the skin from completely drying out, which shortens the period of wear.

  5. And finally, the advice that has been used for many years in the countries of the North: wear galoshes or bagels on your shoes - they will best protect it from the effects of salt and chemistry. Moreover, today you can find not only rubber monsters “goodbye youth”, but also bright fashion models, for example, from Armani or Swims.




As you can see, remove salt from shoes Maybe. But it takes some effort. Therefore, it is better to prevent the formation of salt spots on shoes. This will save shoes or boots from premature death, and also favorably affect their appearance.

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