Mix Together Baking Soda, Dish Soap & Hydrogen Peroxide...

Jessica Shaw
by Jessica Shaw

White sneakers are a classic look, but not when they are gray! Save your money – you don’t have to replace your sneakers. 


Follow this simple recipe for a DIY fashion to return your sneakers to their original gleaming white color! 

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Tools and materials:

  • Baking soda
  • Dish detergent
  • Hydrogen peroxide
  • Small mixing bowl and mixing utensil
  • Old toothbrush
  • Towel
Mixing the ingredients

1. Make your sneaker-cleaner

Start by sprinkling some baking soda into a small glass bowl.

Mixing the ingredients

Add a generous squeeze of dishwashing liquid.

Mixing the ingredients

And a squeeze of hydrogen peroxide. 

Mixing the ingredients

And mix that all together.

Cleaning the sneakers

2. Clean your sneakers

Use an old toothbrush to scrub the cleaning mixture into your sneakers. 


Clean the soles and the tops of your sneakers with this solution. 


Note that this will also clean your laces, or you can just replace them with a new pair of laces.

Drying the sneakers

Use a towel to dry off your sneakers.

Clean sneakers after DIY hack

Ta-da! Your sneakers look like new again!

Before vs after

Sneaker cleaning hack

Check out this before-and-after! It sure looks like you went out and bought a new pair of sneakers!


Share this simple white sneaker cleaning hack with your friends, and leave a comment to let me know how you liked it.

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  • Efr122081419 Efr122081419 on Dec 23, 2025

    A product called Tub-O-Towels does a spectacular job cleaning even grass stains off white sneakers. I've had the same container for over 5 years, and they're still damp and effective.

  • Kathy Kathy on Dec 23, 2025

    Peroxide and dawn, dish soap, mixed with the little water pour into a spray bottle and spray your stain. Let it sit throw it in the washer. If it doesn’t remove it repeat wonderful stain remover for clothing. That’s the only stain remover I use.

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