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What Can You Do to Protect Your Leather Shoes
How to prolong the life of shoes:
A pair of shoes, some of its manufacturing quality under the premise of good maintenance and proper wear, longer life can be several times its time, which is very economically significant. To make leather shoes with longer service life, you should do the following:
(1) Avoid scraping with sharp phase, which need to be pay double attention.
(2) Avoid encounters with the high temperature; do not use fire and are not in the strong sun exposure.
(3) Strengthen maintenance: Always remove the upper dirt, rubbed shoe polish, try to avoid encounters with water to prevent mold growth during storage.
(4) Make shoes a certain interval of rest: Like shoes and also need to rest. There are several pairs of shoes wear the best rotation to make shoes a certain interval of rest, this will make it less susceptible to damage, deformation of leather shoes in favor of restitution.
(5) light-colored shoes, pay attention to pollution prevention: the more expensive shoes, often the color more light; so when worn, but also to avoid stain; because once the light-colored shoes dirty, it is difficult to restore to the original color.
(6) protect the heel: leather, especially shoes, should be replaced with the heel end of material, do not wait until severe wear of the heel and then replaced.
How to polish shoes oil:
Who will be the oil coating to polish shoes, but they alone do their own imagination, often have many errors, not only would not achieve the role of protective shoes, but shoes will be damaged to varying degrees. The first polish shoe oil, and do this before new shoes should be worn. Later in the wear process, each time to polish shoe oil needs two to three days.
The main ingredient is wax, shoe polish and oil, when the shoe leather shoe polish is applied to the surface, the oil can soak into the skin in order to maintain the leather's rich, and soft; wax stuck in the upper and the formation of a thin layer of wax membrane, water pollution and protection can play the role of vamp.
However, when rubbed shoe polish, but not too much, as in the upper thick layer of shoe polish on the painted most of the oil can't be through human skin, and remain in the leather, forming a layer of grease. Also in the coating should be well before the shoe polish to remove the dirt on the shoe, otherwise, would go a long upper hairline cracks appear.
