eBay Store

CedarShoeTree is proud to announce an eBay Store. You can search the categories to find the many closeout buys available from brands like Aetrex, Apex and others. The store has actually been up for years is just now that CST is loading it up with a large number of items purchased at a greatly reduced rate. That savings is passed on to you the customer. So go to Cedar Shoe Tree's eBay Store and check it out!
 

Shine Your Shoes

Shining your shoes can make your shoes last longer. Dirt and moisture can remove the finish and help leather to break down faster. Cleaning and applying polish can help prevent this. Here's how to shine your shoes:
 

• Clean your shoes with a brush. Take some time on this so that the brush hairs can get into all the cracks, crevices and seams.
• Apply the stuff. What stuff? Try one of these
  • Wax - Use a horse hair dauber to apply the wax to the shoe and let it sit.
  • Cream - Use a sponge dauber to apply the shoe cream to the shoe and let it dry.
  • Liquid - Bottles of shine liquid usually have a built in sponge to apply it to the shoe. Let it dry after application.
• Finish it off. How? It depends upon the finish you want:
  • Matte - Rub off the polish with a cloth then brush it with a shine brush.
  • Shine - Rub off excess polish with a cloth and then get a long cloth. Take each end of the long cloth in one hand. Move the cloth quickly back and forth across the shoe till it shines.
  • Glow - For a very shiny shoe complete b. and then use a patent shine spray to finish it.

Now your shoes should shine. For the best results use high quality products like Meltonian Cream or Kiwi Wax.
 

Brush Your Shoes

When shining your shoes you need good brush to spread out the polish and get the polish into all those hard to reach places.

Usually when you put polish on your shoe using a brush or foam dauber the polish is centered on the large areas of leather on your shoe. To spread the polish out some people use the dauber, but they are usually saturated with the shoe cream or polish. This will cause the polish to fill the seams, eyelets and other places it might get caught.

Using a large shine brush to spread it all out will prevent this from happening and produce a matte finish. It will also allow you use less polish to shine your shoes.

For a quick polish you can use the same large shine brush you've used before to quickly brush dirt off your shoes and a little of the old polish will rub off on the shoe. You can then use a shine cloth to buff your shoe to a shine. This is great if you're just leaving for an important appointment.

Brush your shoes!

After you use a dauber to apply shoe polish you need to rub it evenly in to all the cracks and crevices of the shoe. The best way to do this is with a Shine Brush. There are many different types of these brushes, but the best are ones made from horse hair with a wood backing.
 

Using a shine brush will leave your shoes with a matte finish. You can use a shine cloth to quickly buff the shoes for a nice shine. Taking care of your shoes this way will give your shoes a water resistant (not waterproof) coat that also protects the leather.
 

Make sure you use a different shine brush for each color of polish you plan to use. This way you won't mix your black with your red. Get a shine brush for your shoes at CedarShoeTree.com. They come in natural and black.
 

Shoe Shine Box

To take care of your shoes you need shoe polish, polish daubers, shine brushes, shine cloths and shine sponges. Not to mention shoe trees, stretchers, water proofer and odor control. All this stuff does present a problem: Where do you keep it all?
 

This problem is nothing new and was solved years ago when everyone took care of their shoes and sometimes paid other people to do the same. Since the era of disposable shoes we have forgotten about the Shoe Shine Box. It's a wooden box for holding all your shoe care items. It also has a handle/foot rest on the top to put your shoe on when you're working on it.
 

So if you have all that cool stuff to take care of your shoes make sure you buy a shoe shine box at CedarShoeTree.com. They're the best place to refill that box as well.
 

Stretch Your Shoes

Did you know that your feet get longer as you get older? Your foot is shaped like an arch and over time that arch slowly collapses making your feet longer. Not by much, but it doesn't take much for your shoes not to fit anymore.

When dealing with US shoe sizes there is a 1/6 of an inch between each half size. So a size 6 is only 1/6 of an inch longer than a 5½. Many people do not realize this and will try to purchase a size 6 when they're 40 because they wore a size 6 when they were 20.

How to fix this? You have a few options:

• Get your feet re-measured every 5 years or so.
• Get insoles with arch support. These will lift your arches back up.
• Stretch your shoes.

What about your old shoes? You can stretch your shoes to make them larger. A shoe stretcher can make your shoes half to a full size larger. Any larger than that and you risk damaging the shoes.
 

To stretch your shoes you need two products Shoe Stretch and a Shoe Stretcher. The Shoe Stretch will soften the material to help it stretch and hold its shape once stretched and the Shoe Stretcher will, well, stretch the shoes.
 

Get more life out of your shoes at Cedar Shoe Tree.
 

Shoe Polish Dauber

The most under appreciated piece of shining equipment is the polish dauber. When was the last time you talked about shining your shoes? Did you mention a dauber? I thought you didn't, but when you want to get the polish from the jar to the shoe what else would you use.
 

I know it seems a bit mundane, but the polish dauber helps you avoid getting globs of polish on your hands and other shine implements. Most daubers are either brushes or foam pads with a handle. The professional daubers usually have a small round horse hair brush with a wood handle to make it easy to dip into the jar and then brush all over your shoes. The brush also helps get into cracks, crevices and other odd shapes in your shoes.
 

Wood and hair aren't known to be cheap, but you're in luck. CedarShoeTree.com buys them in such bulk that they are only $1.50 each. Buy wood daubers at the best place for shoe care, Cedar Shoe Tree.