How to soften leather shoes with glycerine and improvised means?

Leather shoes, as well as her brethren, created from other materials, are daily subjected to heavy loads, as a result of which after a while ceases to please its owner with pristine beauty, comfort and gloss. The question arises: how to soften leather shoes, again make it pleasant for both wearing and looking. We have collected some popular and not so known ways of updating leather products and we suggest you to familiarize with them in the following material.

What can stop you?

Of course, it's fine when the shoes immediately after the purchase falls just in time, but this, alas, happens rarely. Most often people have to wear shoes( or something else, right up to any "labutenes") or, even worse, wait for a corpse to form under a particular pair of shoes. In addition, as mentioned above, shoes can lose convenience already in the process of operation. Be that as it may, people often complain that something is pressing: either the backs, or capes, or, which happens less often, the middle part of the boot or boot in the area of ​​the foot. It is worth trying to soften the skin, applying various means.

Special tools

Nowadays it is not necessary to be surprised at the appearance of this or that product on the market, especially since different shoe creams have ceased to be a novelty as far back as the end of the last century, and even earlier. That is why the first thing that is worth trying to update shoes, - special creams and other products for shoes. You can buy them both in ordinary hardware stores and in profile stores and look in the workshops.

Some enthusiasts sometimes use creams designed for human skin to soften shoes. Yes, of course, leather used in leather production has many similarities to human skin, but creams designed for people have much less force, and, of course, they are not enough to make the leather of the shoes soft and "obedient".

How to soften leather shoes with glycerin?

Glycerin, in fact, is a universal substance. It is used in many products for skin care products. By the way, many will be surprised, but glycerin in its structure is an alcohol, but non-aggressive allows it to be used in many substances. In our case, it can also be used: glycerin helps soften the shoes and make it comfortable.

Glycerin, by the way, works much more than specialized creams. Apply it is very simple: just buy a little glycerin in the hardware store and apply it to the problem area, and then leave it absorbed. The main plus of propane-1,2,3-triol( just so scientifically called glycerin) is that it allows you to cope even with severe hardening of the surface of the shoe.

A few minutes after the application of surplus substances are removed from the skin, and the surface is polished. Done! You can perform shoe testing for softness.

Wax is another substance that can help

Surprisingly, even the wax left from the candle will be a good help for those who want to soften their shoes. The method of use is simple: the candle melts, and the warm wax mass is applied to the desired area of ​​the skin. Be extremely careful: do not touch the paraffin immediately after it is stacked with a candle: it is too hot. After processing, shoes must be polished.

Method for non-greedy people

This method is not suitable for everyone. Someone may call it blasphemous and say that in some countries of the world people are starving, while other, more fortunate personalities, translate food into all sorts of nonsense. Be that as it may, we deemed it necessary to mention this method. So, the leather product can be softened with a piece of unsalted lard. The natural fats contained in it, in no case will harm neither the skin of the shoes, nor the skin of the person who is experimenting with their own shoes.

The use of fat is a very easy process. Cut a small cube or parallelepiped, and they are already rubbing the desired area. By the way, you can grate the entire surface of shoes, so as not to polish it after treatment - animal fat perfectly protects shoes from moisture and temperature changes.

How do I update my leather shoes?

But not always the question arises in the plane that we identified at the beginning of the article. Some people just want to update their favorite boots or boots that have lost their charm during the operation: they do not look so fresh, they crush, they call up the burrs, in a word - they do not please the owners much. In general, of course, all the methods described above can be applied equally for updating shoes, and for softening its individual parts. But there are several other similar ways of action, which we decided to describe.

First, the surface can be rubbed with petroleum jelly to make it shine, and also to eliminate small cuts that could appear on the skin. Vaseline is not as strong as glycerin( although it is also safe to use), and therefore sold almost everywhere.

Secondly, it is possible to wipe the skin of the shoe with castor oil( or, in common people, castor oil), which can simultaneously correct minor shoe damage, and even slightly increase it in size: castor oil stretches the seams, making the shoes larger. This can be relevant if the owner, for example, daily dressings or has started gout. Apply castor oil simply: just apply it to a tampon and thoroughly wipe( several times) the surface of the leather product.

Shoes daily helps us to overcome the path without harming ourselves, takes the whole blow to ourselves. Let's be careful about what helps us: to process at least once a season for protection, and just follow certain precautions. We hope that the article has become useful to you. Good luck!