How do you clean patent leather shoes?

[HerBeX]

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Clarks sell a little bottle of something that looks like black nail varnish. You wipe them clean and paint the 'nail varnish' over them. Good as new! Unless, of course, you're 5 like my daughter and knacker them anyway!

Nail varnish remover? Test on an inconspicuous bit first. I've used it to clean a bag before.

Milk

Blimey.

Milk intrigues me. Don't they smell afterwards?

baby wipes

vaseline and tissue

lack polish

Spit on a tissue.

Spitty tissue?

Ha, cross (and spitty) post

Vaseline - makes them shiny and stops them cracking

Hands up who had a mum who'd spit on a tissue whenever you got food on your face. Eurgh!

Oh God I still remember that! The smell - I can still smell it!

Thank God for wet wipes - not invented when I was a baby!

Furniture polish. Something like mr sheen! Promise. That's how I do mine.

Collonil patent leather cleaner

I went to Clarks today and the young man tried to sell me shoe cream. He was your typical teenage sales assistant though and I couldn't remember any details about the "black nail varnish".

It's called Patent Leather Restorer and is like shiny black nail varnish.

Let it dry though before touching them!