Woman shares tip for making her filthy white trainers look brand new but not everyone’s sure it’s worth the effort

THERE’S nothing sadder than a pair of white trainers which have become less than gleaming. But one woman has come up with a genius solution for getting a pair of old kicks looking brand new. Posting in Facebook group ‘Mrs Hinch Made Me Do It’, she shared a snap of a her filthy shoes before […]

THERE’S nothing sadder than a pair of white trainers which have become less than gleaming.

But one woman has come up with a genius solution for getting a pair of old kicks looking brand new.

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A woman has shred how she got her filthy white trainers gleaming again[/caption]

Posting in Facebook group ‘Mrs Hinch Made Me Do It’, she shared a snap of a her filthy shoes before showing them transformed into a sparkling clean pair.

Captioning the images, she wrote: “That was a successful attempt at saving trainers.” 

Explaining how she was able to scrub them up, she added: “I took the laces out and put them in bleach and oxi stain remover with boiling water.

“I sprayed the trainers with Elbow Grease then put them in the sink with scalding water and bleach and scrubbed with a Minky. I then put them in the washing machine.

They look like a brand new pair.

Facebook user

“I rinsed the laces then bleached them and scrubbed with a tooth brush then put them in a jug with bleach and boiling water. That’s it.”

Fellow social media users were amazed by the results, and the post has received more than 1.3k ‘likes’.

One person wrote: “They look like a brand new pair.”

Another commented: “Great job.”

That’s amazing!!!!!

Facebook user

A third shared: “That’s amazing!!!!!”

And a fourth added: “Love this.”

However, others thought she had gone to a lot of trouble.

Convinced there’s an easier way, one person noted: “The washing machine…..that’s what I do and they come up like new.”

It comes after we told you that a mum uses dental tablets to get her son’s trainers looking as good as new.

And another mum transformed her filthy pair using Mrs Hinch’s favourite 89p paste.

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