Nothing feels better than keeping your Jordans clean, and nothing hurts more than seeing it dirty and stained. Stains aren’t permanent, and cleaning your sneakers is just as easy as washing your clothes.
All you need to know to clean your Jordans is just a little bit of knowledge and a little bit of your time — I’m sure, to you, keeping your Jordans clean matters!
So how do we get it cleaned? Is it time-consuming? The question is can you clean jordans with dish soap? Well… you can clean it with your dish soap, but how about I show you how you can clean it safely with the dish soap, but also recommend other steps that would extend your sneakers life?
Are you ready? I know you are! So let’s get started!
Cleaning Nike Jordans With Dish Soap
Since you came here looking to know if you can wash your Nike Jordans with dish soap? I have to tell you, you can, and this is the cheapest and most affordable way to clean your sneakers and barely takes any effort.
What all do you need to clean your Jordans with dish soap? You would need a dry cleaning cloth, dish soap, a toothbrush, oxygen bleach, and water. The list isn’t that long, to be honest! It just sounds like that!
So, let’s begin!
Step 1
Take your shoes and knock the soles to remove any visible dust or debris that’s on the shoe. Now, take a dry cleaning cloth and wipe your shoes to remove all kinds of dirt and any residue that is on the shoe.
Now, pick the clean side of the cleaning cloth and moisten it with water. Wipe over your sneaker with the cloth to remove any leftover stains, marks, or dirt.
Step 2
Take cold water, and add a few drops of dish soap on the clean damp cleaning cloth or a shoe brush and wipe over your sneakers to remove any buildup without damaging your sneaker.
With the toothbrush or cleaning cloth scrub your sneakers all over the upper and midsoles by wetting and reapplying soap until all residue and dirt have been cleaned off.
Step 3
Take 3 tbsp of oxygen bleach and mix it with 1 tbsp of water. Take a toothbrush and dip it into the paste and scrub it on the mid-soles to whiten them.
Also, you can use the magic eraser cleaning pads to clean the mid-soles for a brighter clean.
Step 4
Take another dry cleaning cloth and dip it into the paste and scrub over any leftover residue on your sneaker.
Now, using cold water, rinse off your Jordans to remove the soap. Shake off your shoes and squeeze the material to remove water. Using a cleaning cloth, pat down the shoes to remove excess water. Once done, leave them to air dry.
When rinsing, avoid using hot water as it could damage the material or the glue that is used in your shoes.
Becoming a ‘Pro’ at Cleaning and Maintaining Your Jordans
All right! If you had fun knowing and learning how to clean your Jordans with dish soap, how about you learn the ‘pro’ level of cleaning and maintaining your sneakers using the daily household items?
Does this take too much of your time? Not at all!
Read to know more about how you can take care of your sneakers and increase their life.
Keeping the Laces White
Now that you’ve learned that you can clean your jordans with dish soap we may need to spruce up the rest of the jordans.
Let’s start off with learning how to keep your laces white and how to clean them if they get dirty.
Fill a bowl with warm or hot water, remove the laces from your shoe, and stick it into the bowl with dish soap, and leave it in for 20-30 minutes. Take them out, scrub them with your hands and wipe them with a microfiber cloth. If the stains are stubborn to remove from your laces, put the soap directly on the laces, and using the microfiber cloth, rub it with the edge of your fingernail.
Removing Odor From the Insole
There’s nothing worse than wearing your shoe that has a bad odor that could be smelled by people nearby or probably your worst nightmare — your date/crush smelling it when you are on a date or when you are hanging out.
How do we remove it? Easy-peasy! We got you covered!
- Clean the inside of the shoe thoroughly with a cloth using lukewarm water and a solution such as dish soap, and then let it air dry once done.
- Or, you can use 3 tea bags and place them inside of each shoe and leave it for 24 hours. The tea bags will remove all the moisture from the shoe, killing the bacteria that causes odor. What you need to keep in mind is you should go for flavored tea bags for your shoe. Along with removing moisture, It would leave a soft, clean, and pleasant smell.
Cleaning the Outsole
If you have OCD, or you are a perfectionist and care a lot about your shoes? Then we are pretty sure you even obsess about keeping the outsoles of your sneakers clean but clueless about how to properly clean them.
Sweat not! We got you covered!
If you are trying to remove dirt, take a little bit of hot water and a toothbrush and scrub the outsole. Since the outsole is made of rubber, hot water won’t damage the shoe. If there are stubborn stains, you can try removing them using Deglazer by putting a little bit on a microfiber cloth and rubbing it wherever it is stained.
Removing the Gum From the Outsole
We can imagine the pain of accidentally stepping on the gum and feel that your sneakers are now gone forever.
If you have stepped on gum, grab a tweezer and remove whatever you could remove using it. Take some water, and boil it until it is very hot, now take a microfiber cloth and dip it into the hot water, without burning your fingers, of course.
Using the microfiber cloth, rub over the gum to soften it. Now, grab a rubber eraser and rub it over the remaining gum until everything is removed and the outsole is clean without any gum sticking to it.
Cleaning the Midsole
Cleaning the midsole is pretty easy, all you need is warm water, a toothbrush, any cleaning solution or dish soap, and a microfiber cloth.
Mix the dish soap or a cleaning solution in the water, dip the toothbrush in the solution and scrub the midsole of your sneakers. If this isn’t helping. We would recommend you use a midsole pen to hide all the stains or marks.
Conclusion
Ain’t cleaning your Jordans fun? The real Michael Jordan is all about sweat and struggle, but your Jordans are just so easy to clean and take care of!
Like Michael Jordan says, “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.” get on with taking care of your Jordans and feel and live like the king himself.
We hope that your Jordans are now sparkling just like the day you bought them.
If you want to discover additional ways to clean your Jordans, you can watch the video below.