vegetable oil on leather shoes

[Tommy]

DS3 found the cooking oil again and this time managed to spill some on my rather nice brown leather mules. They have a shiny finish. I've put some leather cleaner that I had on them but the oil drop stain is still there.

Any ideas as to how to get rid of them?

TIA

no-one else obviously had this!!

one more try for any evening MNers who are a dab hand at shoe care....

How about rubbing talc into the oil patch? It may absorb the oil. It works on material, but am not sure about leather.

hmm thanks - the thing is that the leather is that shiny sort (sounds horrible but they realy are very nice!) so I'm not sure if that would work. However, I will go and try it - thanks