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Ray Mtn. Home Ar.

Guess you could stick them in a bag of kitty litter for a month or so.

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Hank Knight

Barry,

You will probably never get all the peanut oil out of your shoes, but you can improve their condition considerably. Go to your local shoe shop and buy bottle of Lexol cleaner and another bottle of Lexol leather conditioner. Soak a wet cloth with the cleaner and scrub your shoes with it. It's kinda like soap and it will lather ever so slightly, but it cleans well and gets down pretty deep into the leather. Rinse after each scrubbing with a clean rag and clear water. Sounds like you may need two or three applications. Let the shoes dry out and then apply a coat of conditioner. Your shoes will probably remain a darker shade than they were originally, but they will look and smell a lot better than they do now.

Good luck!

Hank

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philip f Duffy

You could always just let the dog eat them!! P.

That was my other thought.....

Barry Irby

He does not seem interested. I think I will just coat both shoes now that it does not look like they are dog food.

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Brian Holcombe

Use a powder in them that soaks up oil, after that I would try the lexol cleaner. Be careful not to scrub.

Good chance this will be a perminant bit of patina.

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John E in SC

My wife gets oil stains out of clothes by coating liberally with baby powder and letting it sit overnight. Seems to soak up the oil. Works surprisingly well sometimes. Couldn't hurt to try. May need repeated applications since it soaked into the leather.

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TomD

The uppers on shoes, are made of chrome tanned leather, or something very similar. In that process the cells are filled with something, and the result is that the leather is not free to soak up liquids for the most part. So there is some chance the penetration is entirely superficial. Only to suggest that the damage may be only skin deep. Therefore maybe it can be repaired by experimenting with some of the suggestions.

Of course chrome tanned leather is not vinyl. Stand around in water and they get wet, but they do not respond like veg tan, and the test to tell the two apart where not obvious is to see how they soak up some water on the surface.