How to Make Shoe Polish

Keeping your shoes polished is important if you want to keep looking your best. If you don't want to pay high prices for store polish you can always make some at home. You can make a bigger batch so that it lasts you a long time. If you get good at making the shoe polish you may even want to make some to sell to your friends.

Things You'll Need

• 5 oz. of Beeswax
• .05 oz. of Potassium carbonate
• Bar of soap
• 10 oz. Charcoal powder
• .05 oz. of Gum arabic powder
• 1.5 oz. of Icing sugar
• Large pot
• Water
• Small tins

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Instructions

1. Give your shoes a cleaning before you polish them. You can do this with some water and a dry cloth. This will help to remove any dirt or build-up that has formed on your shoes as a result of normal wear.

2. Put some water in a pot and place it on your stove. Bring it to a boil on high heat and add beeswax. Melt completely. Stir in your bar of soap, which should have been grated into flakes.

3. Add your potassium carbonate to the water-wax mixture. You may see some foaming and this is normal. Keep boiling your mixture until it begins to form a paste-like consistency.

4. Turn your stove off and remove the pot. Add the gum powder, sugar and charcoal into the pot and mix.

5. Place your new shoe polish in tin cans for storage. Allow them to cool completely before placing the lid on top.

Tips & Warnings

• Polish your shoes once per month to keep them from cracking.

• Keep your shoes shiny by using some olive oil and a cloth. Allow the olive oil to sink in to the shoe and then use your cloth.

• Leave the charcoal out if you don't want black shoe polish. Black just happens to be the most popular color.

• Test your homemade shoe polish out on a pair of old shoes first. That way you don't accidentally ruin your good pair.