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Many people like shoes with white soles. That’s just a bright color quickly fades, acquires a yellowish or gray coating, becomes covered with spots. This is inevitable, even if you wear a pair very carefully. But you should not be upset, because there are many ways to return the original appearance. We have prepared a selection of proven ways to whiten white soles on sneakers or sneakers in an easy and simple way.

The video listed simple recipes for cleaning white soles

The best ways to clean white soles

How to prepare shoes for cleaning
What and how to clean
— home remedies
– Specialty chemicals
— Paints
Prevention measures

How to prepare a couple for cleaning

The sole is rarely cleaned separately from the top, most often they are washed together. Let’s figure out how to properly prepare shoes for such a procedure.

1. Unlace your shoes and remove the insoles. They also need cleaning. Soap them up and let them soak for a while.
2. Take a brush and clean the dust from the upper and soles.
3. Examine the sole carefully. Remove all stuck in the relief part of the pebbles, adhering dirt. Remove adhering kidneys or their fragments especially carefully. They leave stubborn stains.
4. Prepare your detergent. If it’s a harsh enough chemical, be sure to test it on an inconspicuous fragment. Otherwise, there is a risk of spoiling the pair.

How and how to clean a white sole

The choice of cleaning agent depends on the degree of contamination and the material used to manufacture the product. There are a lot of options for how to wash the white soles on shoes. We list the most effective of them.

homemade recipes

Eraser

An ordinary school eraser will help to cope with pollution. An important point. For cleaning, take only light plain erasers. You can not use flavored gum, bright colors, with multi-color inserts. The boot is cleaned of dust, after which dirty areas are rubbed with little effort. If the plantar part is embossed, the eraser is cut. So it is more convenient to clean the dirt from small depressions.

Melamine sponge

Even stubborn dirt can be removed with a melamine sponge. This is a plastic with a special structure that «exfoliates» the dirt particles. Cut off a small piece of sponge, moisten it and gently rub the soiled areas. After cleaning, the product is rinsed and wiped dry.

Soda

Soda gruel is a simple but effective option for cleaning white soles. Soda powder is diluted with water, mixed. The resulting slurry is applied to the surface, gently rubbed. Leave shoes in this form for 10-15 minutes. Then wash off the soda and wash the treated area. Repeat if necessary.

Bleach

You can bleach yellowed soles with bleaching detergents. It is best to take drugs based on active oxygen. Chlorine compounds can damage plastic or rubber. Hydrogen peroxide can be used as a bleach, since it is part of most oxygen preparations. The drug is diluted with water, but the maximum possible concentration is chosen. It is indicated on the packaging. After that, the solution is poured into a basin or other container, shoes are placed in it so that the material of the top does not come into contact with the liquid. Leave for one and a half to two hours, wash off the remnants of the solution.

Lemon acid

It will help if the white sole has turned yellow. The surface must be dampened before treatment. After that, take a rag, or rather a small brush, an old toothbrush will do, moisten. Dip it in citric acid and rub the product thoroughly with powder. Wet crystals will begin to hiss and dissolve. It is necessary to give time for this process to be fully completed. After that, the surface is rubbed again with a brush and washed with clean water.

washing powder

Best of all «works» means with a whitening effect. The sequence of processing is as follows.

1. Pour some powder into a bowl, add water. Stir to make a paste.
2. Rinse the sole of the dust.
3. Take an old toothbrush or sponge and dip it in the paste. Rub vigorously on the entire contaminated surface.
4. Leave for a few minutes, rinse under running tap.
5. Repeat until all impurities are cleared.

You can simplify the process a little. To do this, a slurry of powder is diluted in a flat container and shoes are immersed in it. This should be done so that the mixture covers only the plantar part. Leave it like this for an hour and a half. Then tinder with a brush, washed clean.

soda + vinegar

Well-known household cleaner. Effectively removes gray plaque and stains. Processing is carried out in this way.

1. Prepare a soda bowl. To do this, pour some water into the soda powder, stir well.
2. Rinse your shoes under the faucet to wash away dust and dirt.
3. Spread the gruel generously on the soiled surface. Rub with a little force, as if rubbing the mixture into the base.

4. Take 9% vinegar, pour it into a spray bottle and spray the treated areas. If you don’t have a spray bottle, just soak them in vinegar.

5. Wait for the baking soda and vinegar to react. This will happen when the hissing stops. Let the mixture «work» a little more. Then rub the treated surface with a brush.
6. Rinse off the rest of the mixture with water.

Acetone

A liquid containing it, such as nail polish remover, will also work. Acetone is especially good at cleaning stains from grass, fuel oil, and other oil products. It will help remove hard-to-remove black stripes that appear from contact with asphalt. An important point. Before processing, it is imperative to test the reaction of the material to acetone. To do this, it is applied to an inconspicuous area. If the base has not deteriorated, you can clean it. Cotton wool or rags are moistened in acetone, wring out and wipe the dirty areas. After treatment, the remnants of the product are washed off with water.

Toothpaste

Do not take a gel paste. The best option would be the simplest composition without any additives. The instruction on how to wash the white sole is very simple.

1. Rinse the sole of the shoe.
2. Put some toothpaste on an old toothbrush.
3. Carefully treat the surface with it. Clean out dirt from all creases and bumps.
4. Leave for a few minutes, then rinse with clean water.

Specialty chemicals

There is a group of special products for white soles that help restore whiteness to it even in the most difficult cases. We list the brands of the most effective of them.

Tarrago

Welt and sole cleaner. Works on porous materials, suitable for EVA plastics. Released as a liquid. It is applied to the surface, covered with a transparent film and left in the sun for 4-6 hours. The rest of the drug is washed off.

Sibearian

Foam for deep cleaning of various materials, including rubber. Helps to get rid of stubborn and old stains. Suitable for wet cleaning and for express cleaning with a dry method.

Salton

Active foam containing optical brightener and high-foaming surfactants with cleaning polymers. This combination allows you to get rid of stains and the most persistent dirt. Foam does not discolour dyes, can be used for any color of material.

Icleaner

Foam type cleaner with dispenser for economical consumption. Helps to clean traces of grass, fuel oil, wood buds and other difficult dirt. Eliminates yellowness and gray plaque. The composition does not contain toxic ingredients.

Damavik

Designed for effective cleaning of welts, soles and inserts. Restores white color. Approved for use on colored materials. Contains optical brightener. The cleaner is sold in a container with a foaming dispenser.

Paints

It is not always possible to clean off dirt or restore the lost whiteness. Then you can try another way to restore the appearance of shoes. They produce special paints to update the color. We list several effective options.

white GUIN

Liquid dye in a bottle with a foam applicator. Easy to apply, dries quickly and lasts a long time. Suitable for synthetics, plastic, genuine leather. After drying, it does not leave marks, does not stain the surface. Additional polishing is not needed.

Salton

Liquid paint for sports shoes made of natural and synthetic materials, textiles. Convenient applicator evenly distributes the mixture over the base. It removes scratches, scuffs and stains. After drying, it lasts for a long time, does not stain.

Braus

Pencil from the «Super White» series. Designed for all types of leather, synthetics and textiles. It can be used to whiten yellowed areas on sneakers and sneakers with colored inserts. Easy to apply, dries quickly and lasts a long time.

WaksMe

Special paint from the «Extreme White» series. Covers scuffs, stains, scratches on smooth surfaces. Sold in a container with a convenient applicator. After drying, it does not leave streaks or streaks, does not stain or stain other coatings.

Prevention measures

In order for the shoes to remain snow-white, you need to properly care for them. There are several rules to follow.

• Removing fresh dirt is much easier. Dirt must be cleaned as quickly as possible, then it will not have time to eat into the structure of the material.
• In rainy and muddy weather, it is better to wear a dark pair.
• After cleaning, all light surfaces are treated with a colorless cream, then polished.
• Water-repellent impregnation is regularly applied to the sole part. Do this with a new pair before wearing and after the next cleaning.

An important point. It is necessary to get rid of the bad habit of forgetting to clean your shoes. In the mud, this should be done daily, in dry weather less often. Otherwise, particles of contaminants are fixed on the material, penetrate into its structure. Over time, they turn into an unpleasant gray coating, provoke yellowing. The couple loses their attractive appearance, and it is almost impossible to return it.