How to Clean White Shoes (tennis)

When your white athletic shoes get dirty you can clean them quickly without scrubbing with a Mr Clean Magic Eraser. Just follow the instructions for the eraser, moistening it and rinsing when it gets dirty. Then wipe off residue on shoes with a damp rag or paper towel.

I would never believe it, but Oven cleaner works like magic to remove tar, paint or just hard to remove road grime, just be careful it doesn’t come in contact with skin.

After several wearings and especially after gardening, I despaired of getting my shoes clean so I removed the insole, loosened the laces, sprayed Spray n Wash over all, and put shoes and insoles into the washer. The first time I just sloshed them around by hand, but eventually left them in for a short cycle and they came out clean and no worse for the treatment. It seemed to work even if the shoes were part fabric, part leather, or man made. I did not put them in the dryer, however. Let them air dry.

You Take a toothbrush and some hot water and you rub the toothbrush on some soap and you scrub your shoes untill the dirt comes off.

I use Scrubbing Bubbles Bathroom Cleaner. It works GREAT! I am sure that any Bathroom Cleaner would work well though.

if you want to clean some dirty white shoes get a old tooth brush hot water and a tiny bit of bleech and you are good to go make sure you keep out of reach of children and away from skin and do not inhale to much of the bleech fumes best place to do this is out side

Most of these answers will damage your shoes beyond repair. They will weaken the shoes so they no longer support your foot like they were designed. This can result in injury.

Some suggestions will make the shooes look better briefly. But then the shoes no longer protect and support your feet. If looks are important at the risk of damaging the shoes or your feet, you don’t need an answer here. Clean shoes with anything and everything that mkes them look good then buy another pair.

Never place shoes in a conventional washing machine. The thorough, prolonged soaking and un-natural movement break down the adhesives holding the shoes together.

Shoes are designed to take the stress of walking, running, or basketball, for example. Shoes are not designed to be flipped, pulled, turned, twisted and dragged upside down and sideways violently underwater nor spun flat at high speeds.

Oven cleaner, and drain cleaner, and toilet bowl cleaner, are caustic and weaken synthetics or dissolve fibers. The shoes are clean on the outside and disintegrate on the inside. Residue can burn your feet.

Bleach burns and destroys fabric. Ever seen a nice white cotton cotton that looks clean but has holes like swiss cheese? That’s what happens to the soft material inside your athletic shoes when using bleach. Look nice on the outside. Worthless and weak for supporting your foot.

Remove dry dirt, then mild soap and water in tiny amounts using a toothbrush and then thoroughly rinsing is best. Rinse by wetting the material and blot with a towel. Repeat several times. The single best thing you can do is wet, blot, and rinse thoroughly when cleaning. The dryer the shoes remain, the less soap and chemicals, the better.

For stains use 1 tablespoon hydrogen peroxide (from the drugstore) 1 tablespoon baking soda and 1 tablespoon hot water all mixed together. Scrub with a toothbrush. Rinsing as above is very important.

White Tootpaste can be used to mask stains in difficult to clean white shoes. Scrub with small amount of paste, no water, let dry, brush dried residue loose with a dry brush.

Baby wipes are good on the soles only. The moisturizing residue on fabric or leather attracts dirt. You get a one time benefit then you’ve made matters worse.

HTH.

If you have white leather shoes just get a rag and spray window cleaner and it gets all clean