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Ways to Clean Cork Heels



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Although cork shoes are stylish, you may be hesitant to buy cork-heeled women’s shoes,  because they can become soiled easily. But with a bit care, you can make easily even the heavily soiled or destroyed cork shoes to fair and wearable condition. The following tips can help you to restore your cork shoes back in commission. Work out a cleaning solution for your cork shoes. Put about five drops of the gentle detergent to a half gallon of warm water.  Make sure the detergent are nontoxic so that they can avoid any chemicals to do harm to your shoes. Then mix half a cup of white vinegar to it and swirl around. It’s not necessary to make suds.
With a wet rag to wipe down the cork shoes . Dampen the rag with cleaning solution. Then use it to wipe as much dirt and spot as possible. By doing this, later your scrubbing will be less extensive, the life of your cork heels will also be preserved.
Use a mild and scrubbing motion in circle to scrub the cork shoes. It’s better if the scrub brush is wet but not sopping damped. Moreover, you should frequently stop to rinse out the brush for the purpose to prevent smearing dirt around.
Wipe the shoes if you want to get rid of all soap residue and suds. By doing this, you can know the effective extent your cleaning has been. Scrub the shoes again if you can see lots of grime or discoloration on the shoes still. But don’t do it up to two times, or you will break the cork. If the cork heels are clean, stop after an entire wipe-down.
Check the shoes. Because the vinegar will make stains light, it’s unnecessary to rinse the shoes. However, for the removal of all cleaning solution, you can scrub the last time with warm water. If you are satisfied with the appearance of your cork heels at that moment, put them to dry outside for one day or two.
Do not sand the cork shoes unless the they become dry completely, which almost need one day or two. Do not apply gib pressure or sand  in the same area repeatedly. Because by doing this, you are decreasing the vamp of cork, only a few times can be done before you step out with your shoes. Nevertheless, an extremely light sanding can get rid of nearly all existence of spots. Only heavy stains are necessary because they will not come out with the cleaning solution.


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