Tips about how to take care and clean your leather boots

A well cared and spotless footwear is almost a must for any man or woman. Leather boots are perfect for the Winter, cold and rainy days, but without a proper care and maintenance they can get ruined and start looking deteriorated.

Leather boots are made to last many years and resist difficult conditions, but taking care and cleaning them will result on a longer useful life.

Leather is a raw material that needs to be cared. To keep leather boots’ exceptional characteristics, a proper care is vital. 

Footwear cleaning is very important for our image!

How to clean leather boots

Wear clean boots gives a responsibility image, cleanliness and elegance. Despite that, don’t always know how we have to take care of footwear, since it will vary depending on the kind of material is made.

To lengthen leather boots life, it is advisable to clean the boots every day after their use. Furthermore, an incorrect use and inadequate maintenance of our boots will have discomfort and a faster wear as consequence.

For our boots’ cleaning we can use some water and soap, since they can be quite effective to erase dirt remaining, but is much better using leather shoes special care products to ensure they don’t ruin.

Easy steps to leave leather boots looking like new

First step to clean our leather boots is to erase dirt. For that, we have to use a dry cloth or a soft bristle brush to erase the majority and after with a damp cloth, clean boot’ surface from any remaining. For a cleaning in depth, we recommend using the Shoeboy’s cleaning foam that can find at Corbeto’s Boots. 

Second step is to moisturize the boots. We will need an uncolored or neutral cream or saddle polish. We apply it on a clean cloth and with circular movements gently rub it all over the boots. That will protect leather footwear against stains, will moisturize and renew their color.

To repair some scratches, we will use a neutral cream or one from the same color as shoe’s leather and will apply it over the leather boots. Use the Shoeboy’s nourisher cream with applicator and will get a perfect finish.

Finally, take a cotton cloth or a soft bristle brush to recover their natural shine. You can also use a rain protector spray like the one that presents Shoeboy’s to provide extra protection against water and daily weather adversities.

Suggestions

One of the problems usually happen when cleaning leather boots is that we always get dirtier than we would like.

For that reason, when cleaning our boots, we recommend doing it at a previously set place. You can put some old newspaper over a table and clean the boots there. 

Another suggestion is introducing one hand on the boot and clean it with the other, for a better grip. Using latex gloves during this process will help you not getting so dirty.

It also isn’t a bad idea to finish our footwear’s maintenance with a good sanitizer like the Shoeboy’s Active Fresh disinfectant as we know, despite the good perspiration a leather boot might have, as time passes it’s quite possible that our sweat will end making them smell not that good. A specific odor eraser and sanitizer product like this from Shoeboy’s is a perfect solution, that, furthermore, will disinfect our boots without harming the inner lining.

 

How to conserve leather boots

Let your boots rest

It isn’t recommendable wearing the same footwear every day. Leather needs to rest and go back to its initial position. 

Shoetrees prevent leather to crack and force shoes or boots to go back to their initial position, avoiding the usual wrinkles that ruin their look. Furthermore, a shoetree absorbs humidity and odor, avoiding damages on the footwear.

Wet and humid boots

If the boots get wet and damp, we should clean them with a soft cloth and ensure no water remains on the surface. 

It is convenient placing immediately a shoetree to avoid them get deformed so the same shoetree will absorb the humidity that might have soaked through the leather.

We must let the boots get dry by themselves, without applying any heat source and avoid direct contact with the sun rays to avoid leather’s get excessively dry up. This process can take several days if the boots are very wet.

Once they are completely dry, we should apply a layer of neutral cream or polish to moisturize the leather.

Use the boot jack!

Using a wooden boot jack will make taking off our boots much easier and at the same time will prevent from deformations and scratches on the spur ridge like they might appear if we try getting off the boots stepping one heel with the other boot toe’s. Furthermore, its ergonomic shape prevents breaking our boots’ heel counter.

Storing our boots

If you are going to store your boots for long time, it’s necessary doing it correctly. Don’t store them inside plastic bags because mildew might appear due to the dampness!

The correct way to store our leather boots is inside cotton bags, with their shoetrees placed to keep their shape.If you want to find genuine leather boots, just need to come by our store at Las Ramblas de Barcelona or take a look at our online shop. Will discover a great selection of best quality leather boots from the best bootmakers in addition to a fantastic assortment of products to take care and clean your boots the best way.