Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need:
- Clean, dry towel
- Pencil or suede eraser
- Metal suede brush
- Suede protector
- Nail brush
- 2 shoe trees or tissue paper
- Nail brush
- Dry cloth or sponge
- Shoe tree or tissue paper
- Suede brush
- Suede protector
General Cleaning
Step1
Take a clean, dry towel and gently rub your suede shoes. This helps to bring up the nap and restore the suede's surface.
Step2
Grab your pencil or suede eraser and rub your shoes to remove dry deeply embedded stains.
Step3
Brush the surface of your shoes with a metal suede brush using a controlled circular motions. This helps to smooth out the areas of your shoes that have been roughed up by the eraser. It also effectively gets rid of stubborn scuff marks.
Step4
Spray your shoes with a coat of suede protector.
Removing Water Stains
Step1
Place a light coat of water on the outside of each shoe with a clean nail brush if your shoes have water stains.
Step2
Soak up the excess water with a dry cloth or sponge.
Step3
Insert a shoe tree into each shoe and let them air dry overnight. Without the shoes trees, your shoes will lose their form or shrink. If you don't have any shoe trees, then use balled up tissue paper instead.
Step4
Go over your shoes with a suede brush the next day when they have dried completely.
Step5
Coat each shoe with a layer of suede protector.