Shoe Polish and Leather Care Blog

This year we're offering a Father's Day Special Promotion. All purchases get a FREE Premium Polishing Cloth (Regular $6) automatically, when cloth is added to cart.

Each premium cloth is hand-cut from natural 100% tightly-woven cotton, making it the ideal final buffing cloth, or for application of stiff waxes and High Shine during the Mirror Shine process.

Here's a chart breaking down the pigment colors of each of our polish offerings. And while each product may not imbue full-richness or depth of the colors shown, this is the "true nature", of the pigment itself, and what – over time – the migration will progress towards.

As always, let us know if you have any questions, or if there are any colors you'd love to see that we're currently missing!

Shell Cordovan is an amazing material. It responds very differently to products than standard calfskin leather. In fact, we often just recommend a damp wipe-down, brushing, and some Neutral Cream Polish, to keep your shell in good shape, most of the time. This allows it to develop a natural patina or fade, and still stay protected.

However, every once in a while, we want to mirror shine our shoes, or add some additional protection. Today was one of those times.

Polishing grain leather is not an easy thing. Caring for the leather care be quite straight forward – keep it conditioned with Conditioner, protected with Cream, and add some scuff protection on the toes and heels with Paste/Wax Polish. But, getting that magic mirror shine or even a nice quality high shine, can sometimes be elusive.

Grain leather has more texture, it's grainy (by definition), and rubbing stiff waxes across grain can be challenging.

Read How...

Choosing which color of polish to buy for your valued pair of shoes can sometimes be tricky. Photos show a wide-range of leathers using a single polish color: For example, Walnut can be used to bring out the reddish tones in a lighter brown leather, or can be used to tone down the reds and accent the browns in a burgundy or mahogany colored leather.

To make it trickier, there is no one single uniform "color name" that we all use. From the leather industry, to the shoe industry, to the leather care industry, we all select a name that best represents our intended audience, and then hope they can figure it out by looking at the pictures. 

So as to not totally confuse you, we created this line-up of common shoe colors and leathers, to show you which color polishes we would select to best "color match" the leather.

For us, celebration and appreciation of Nature’s Beauty goes into everything we do. From the very small, to our worldwide efforts. On Earth Day today, we’d like to continue to recognize and celebrate Nature, the Earth, its beauty, and its strengths.

All of our products are made from all-natural, biodegradable ingredients. No animal fats, chemical dyes, or preservatives. Nothing but Pure Polish.

Read more about what goes into our polish. 

Live Beautifully. Shine Naturally. 

Below are some recent nature shots of Allen Edmonds Walnut Weybridge, polished to a mirror and given a warm glow. These are well-used shoes, not out of the box. They're just given proper care with our products.

White leather shoes are notoriously difficult to keep white. Fortunately, we make a White Cream Shoe Polish that allows you to keep your white leather vibrant and clean-looking.

Read our DIY How-To Blog on the question: "Do you ever use Pure Polish on wood furniture?" We used our All-Natural Leather Cleaner & Conditioner to clean the wood surface, Burgundy Cream to re-color the wood grain, and High Shine Wax to protect and finish the project. We feel it came out pretty good. Plus, it has the sweet smell of oranges, and was super fun to polish. 

Here's a walkthrough on our process for restoring a pair of Vintage Florsheim Imperial Wingtip Full-Brogue Oxfords.

They were given new life recently, using only our products for a full restore from start-to-finish.

Picked up from the bottom shelf of a thrift store for $4, we recognized that the leather still had a lot of life left in them, if given some love and chemistry attention.

Within driving distance of Pure Polish headquarters here in Bend, Oregon, we have the beautiful and fun High Desert Museum. They cover local herita...

We are lucky that each day our customers, friends, and fans tag us in social media posts, send us reviews, images, upload videos, and write blog posts about Pure Polish.

Here are a few of this week's community favorites.

There is a beautiful collection of high shines, mirror shines, and versatile "soft shines", using a collection of our products.

Before and After examples of some beautiful leather shoes, including Crockett & Jones Derbies, Navyboot Oxfords, Allen Edmonds Strands with a custom patina, and Vintage Florsheim Imperial Wingtips.