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Here are a few cheap, and effective options to keep your sneakers looking as goos as the day you bought them.

For All White Sneakers:

Believe it or not, but toothpaste and an old toothbrush work wonders on dirty white sneakers. If you're obsessive enough to sit and scrub your sneakers with a toothbrush ( I did in fact go through such a faze ), I can promise you it's worth the results. Your sneakers will be on the verge of sparkling. If you do not want to go through the trouble, I would at least try using a toothbrush on the soles of your shoes, no not the bottom but on the sides where you can see. The toothbrush works great on the rubber and will really make your shoes look brand new.

Using any ordinary can of sneaker cleaner in conjunction with a toothbrush will also give you good results. Definitely better than simply spraying on the sneaker cleaner and wiping it off. You can buy cans of sneaker cleaner at most sneaker stores for about $5.00. In my experience they all work the same, none have stood out to be better than others.

You can also put your sneakers in the wash, preferably not with your clothes. Use the same amount of detergent you would use for a small load of laundry and some bleach. Judge the amount of bleach by how dirty your sneakers are. Set your machine for hot water, and when its done put your sneakers out in the sun to dry if you can. The sun will naturally whiten them even more! This also avoids possible shrinking that might occur if you put them in the dryer. If you can't wait for them to sit in the sun, put the dryer on a cooler setting if possible, and *don't over-dry them.

You can also use bleach pens/ tide to go pens for a quick fix.

For Colored Sneakers/ Not All White:

I would not use toothpaste on sneakers with colors because the toothpaste will fade the color and/or change the color.

You need to be a little more careful with sneakers that aren't All White because you want to avoid fading the color. You have different options for cleaning depending on the material.

For typical running sneakers that usually have colored accents made from cotton materials, you can use sneaker cleaner spray from a can, or put them in the wash with *colorsafe bleach*.

For any material that gets scuffed, usually those shiny plastic-like materials, you can also use sneaker cleaning spray from a can. This usually works better than the washing machine, and since this material usually doesn't fade in color, you can use a toothbrush to scrub in the spray cleaner.

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