Water repellent impregnation for shoes with your own hands

• First
• Folk skin remedies

Very often soaked shoes cause colds, because in spring, autumn and even in winter, it is so damp and wet that even very high-quality shoes or boots do not do good with protective functions. Even if the shoes do not get wet, but in the morning they are left with white stains, then - they need additional impregnation. In addition, water repellent impregnation significantly increases the service life of your footwear. You can use industrial products that will enhance the protective properties of your favorite pair of shoes, but no less effective, and even more cheap will be a water repellent impregnation for shoes with your own hands. How to make such a tool and apply it to achieve the best result, you will learn from this article.

To begin with

Before you apply any product - whether it is ready or made by hand, you need to thoroughly clean and dry your shoes. Impregnation of dirty or wet shoes will be ineffective, since dust and moisture do not allow any means to penetrate inside.

Important! The simplest option is the treatment with petroleum jelly, which can be bought at any pharmacy or cosmetic department. Simply carefully grind the surface of the shoes, let the paraffin absorb.

Folk remedies for skin impregnation

There are many ways to make impregnation for shoes with your own hands. Let's consider some of them.

Recipe 1

One of the most popular recipes is a mixture in equal parts of flax and mutton fat. For the ingredients to be well combined:

• , the mixture is heated in a water bath and thoroughly mixed;
• sometimes add a little turpentine or paraffin.

Important! You can apply the product with a flannel or woolen cloth.

Recipe 2:

1. To the heated paraffin( 50 grams) add 200 g of linseed oil and 100 g of rubber glue.
2. The mass should be warm, so it's best to put the mixture on a steam bath.
3. Add 100 g of castor oil and turpentine to the warm mixture.
4. All components must be thoroughly mixed and the finished mixture soaked not only the top of the boots, but also the sole.

Important! Shoes should be dried for several days. But then for a long time your favorite shoes will be waterproof.

Recipe 3

1. Mix the wax and linseed oil in a ratio of 3 to 1, put on a water bath and heat until the wax dissolves completely.
2. Warm the mixture on the skin and wipe with a flannel cloth.

Recipe 4

Another simple proven method: -

• Take a wax candle and rub it all over the shoe surface.

Important! The candle is better to take without dyes, sequins, etc.

• Then turn the hair dryer on to maximum power and blow them boots or boots.
• The wax will be melted under the action of hot air and soak into the surface of the skin. Then you need to take a strip of soft cloth and rub it with shoes.

Important! For best effect, two or three layers of wax can be applied.

Recipe 5

This recipe is suitable not only for the skin, but also for other surfaces, for example for wood:

1. We take beeswax, natural linseed oil and turpentine.
2. Wax rubbed on a grater and melt in a water bath, after complete dissolving remove from fire, we pour oil.
3. You can simply mix the wax and drying oil in a ratio of 1 to 1, and you can add turpentine there. Then we need 2 parts of wax, one part of linseed oil and one part of turpentine.
4. After the mixture has cooled, it can be rubbed into the skin.

Important! This water-repellent impregnation for shoes with your own hands, if without turpentine, is very dense, does not melt in your hands. A mixture of turpentine pasty consistency: if you take a little impregnation in your hand, it slowly begins to melt, spreading the smell of resin.

Recipe 6

In the trek it is very important that the shoes do not slip, breathe well, do not get wet for a long time. Wet shoes lead to calluses, promotes freezing of the feet. The next method is more suitable not for city footwear, but for walking boots.

For leather walking boots, the following tool is perfect:

• Prepare: castor oil - 120 g, linseed oil - 12 g, turpentine - 12 g, wax - 12 g.

Important! Castor, linseed oil can easily be bought in any pharmacy, turpentine - in the economic or construction department. Well, you can buy wax from beekeepers, or in special stores. This impregnation for shoes with their own hands will cost you inexpensively, and enough for a long time.

• Mix all the ingredients, put them on a steam bath, warm until the wax melts completely.

This mixture should be applied warmed to a warm shoe. That is:

1. Before each use it needs to be heated in a water bath.
2. Shoes can be heated by a hair dryer or simply by the heat source. Just do not bring it very close, so that the metal parts of the shoes do not melt, if they are.
3. Warm the leather material evenly before applying, and then thickly coat all the leather areas of the shoes, as well as the joints of the seams, the sole with the shoe. Warm impregnation swells, fills small holes, and when it freezes, it hardens and clogs them.
4. It is recommended to apply it in two or three layers.

Important! Such a tool is not suitable for city footwear, since after impregnation the shoes darken.

Please note that water-repellent impregnations for leather shoes are not suitable for suede shoes. Fats, oils, included in the composition of the negative affect the villi suede. This spoils the look of the shoes. For suede, you need to buy special tools. Water repellent agents are often released as a spray. This makes it possible to apply them more simply and qualitatively. Remember, the right tool will allow you to save both shoes and health.