How to clean your canvas shoes

When it comes to the cleaning of canvas shoes, there happens to be more than one way. But before checking out on them, one should definitely listen to what the leading brand which makes best canvas shoes, TOMS store, has to say about it.

On its online shopping portal, TOMS has given the following instructions… “We highly recommend hand washing TOMS in cold water with a gentle detergent and let them air dry. We do NOT recommend putting TOMS in the dryer under any circumstances.”

You all will be thinking that washing from hands will be a tough job, and considering those who have treated their canvas shoes to dirt and mud more often will now be thing of cleaning them as a tiresome job. There are certain shortcuts to this cleaning process, BUT people you have to be careful. Putting them into dryer is definitely a NO-GO in any given case, but they haven’t said anything about giving it a cleansing in washing machine.

What you will need

Here below are certain things that you will need to clean canvas shoes.

•       A Washing Machine
•       A Small Brush (a toothbrush works well)
•       Baking Soda
•       Laundry Detergent
•       Water
•       Mixing Bowl
•       And last but not the least, a pair of dirty Canvas Shoes

Removing the dirt

The first step is to remove the dirt and mud, so take the small brush and gently rub the surface of you canvas shoe to clean it from excessive dirt. This will make the stain removing process more easy and effective.

Treating bad stains

If there are some bad stains on your shoes which you think won’t be gone in a gentle machine wash so you can treat them with a laundry stain remover. The process for this is as simple just you do it for normal clothes.

Cleaning the sole

Make a mixture of baking soda and water, dip the toothbrush in and gently massage the paste into the sole – when you’re done, wipe them clean.

Let machine do the talking

Start the machine by running a gentle cycle in cold water. Add half the amount of detergent you normally use. When the cycle is over, take out the shoes from the machine and leave them to dry in the air.

YES, let them dry in the air don’t put them in dryer nor over the vent or any other method to rinse it. If you don’t pay heed to this warning, you will end up shrinking your canvas shoes.