How to Make Your Crocs Look New

Crocs are comfortable, customizable, and easy to keep clean. A staple of healthcare workers, those in the restaurant industry, and the everyday consumer, you can get years of wear out of yours if you clean them regularly and take care of them well. 

We’ll cover a few additional tips for making repairs to your Crocs and provide some great resources for when you are looking to modify yours to make them distinctly match your style. Let’s get started!

Give your Crocs a good cleaning.

Cleaning your Crocs quickly and effectively doesn’t have to be complicated. You can even do it with little to no effort and not have to resort to using harmful chemicals that inevitably make their way into our water systems.

With Nature Lake’s Clog and Sandal Wash Tablets, which come in packs of six, you’ll be able to drop your shoes off in a bucket for overnight cleaning. These affordable cleaning tablets take up virtually no storage space and require little to no effort to restore your dirty Crocs to a squeaky clean. 

To use these, you’ll require a few essential items: 

• Clog and Sandal Wash Tablets
• Bucket or Sink
• Warm Water

As mentioned, little effort is required and no abrasive scrubbing. These are the easy to follow steps:

1. Fill a bucket with warm water
2. Empty the tablet packet contents into the bucket
3. Submerge your Crocs in the bucket 
4. Let the Crocs soak overnight
5. Rinse in the morning
6. Air dry them before use

The only work here for you is to fill a bucket with warm water and then rinse and dry once clean. It doesn’t get much easier than that!

 Now that they look clean and brand new, what about ways to customize your Crocs to give them your personal style?

Customizing your Crocs to make them personal

One of the great things about Crocs is that you can customize them to make them uniquely you. For years nurses and those in healthcare would customize theirs to add a bit of flair to their daily uniform of scrubs. This idea caught on in the restaurant industry, with many in the kitchen using their Crocs to reflect their personalities and passions when donning a pair of chef’s pants and chef’s coat. 

Croc’s popularity soared, and now customizing them has become an addiction for many, and you can find countless posts to inspire you. Below we will go over a few easy DIY customizations you can make on your own. 

Custom Jibbitz charms

No matter your passion, there is likely a Crocs charm out there for it. These charms are designed to fit snugly into the holes of your Crocs and are made of durable material that can be cleaned in the same way that your shoes are. Widely available at online retailers, you can find endless possibilities for these charms on Amazon and Etsy. Whether your passion is food, cartoons, fashion, or anything else, there is a charm set out there for you!

Customize your Crocs with Paint

If you are the artistic type, painting your Crocs can be the ultimate way to customize them. You will want to use high-quality acrylic paint that will resist scratching, peeling, or cracking. Painting your Crocs allows you to let your creativity flow freely. 

Two essential tips for painting your Crocs:

1. Use chalk to sketch out what you will paint 
2. Make sure to seal your Crocs after painting with a sealer like Krylon Sealer Spray.

You can use a hydro dip for your Crocs, which is a process that includes hand-dipping your shoes into a plastic container filled with water and a layer of different colored latex spray paints. This process is fun and easy! It creates a stunning tie-dye effect. Again, make sure always to seal afterward. There are some great YouTube videos on this process.

Add some bling to your Crocs

Sometimes you just need some sequins and rhinestones. Luckily, it is easy to add some sparkle to your Crocs. Gem-Tac glue is available at almost any craft store and is the perfect adhesive for applying rhinestones to your shoes. Remember to make sure that your Crocs are clean and completely dry before starting. Follow the manufacturer’s directions when using the adhesive. 

Be advised that this is permanent glue, so removing the gemstones later can cause damage to your Crocs. It is good to set out the pattern you will be applying before starting.

These are just three of the many ways you can customize your Crocs. Doing a quick internet search or checking out Pinterest will give you lots of inspiration.

Repairing your Crocs

As a Croc lover, you are likely to experience wear and tear on your beloved shoes. Unfortunately, this may mean you need to make some minor repairs. The company no longer provides replacement parts, so you are on your own to either find similar parts or get creative in repairing them. Luckily, quite a few online retailers offer replacement rivets and straps. 

The most common repair is a strap that has broken loose, but these are usually due to a rivet that needs to be replaced. These rivets are inexpensive and available online. You can insert one part of the rivet into the hole in the strap and then snap the back on to secure it. If the strap itself has wholly torn, then you can replace them pretty easily with a repair kit from retailers like Etsy.

Making your Crocs look new doesn’t have to be hard or expensive

It is not hard to make your Crocs look new. With a combination of cleaning them quickly and scrub-free with the latest eco-friendly tablets on the market, customizing them, and doing some quick and painless repairs, you can do your best to keep these comfy clogs around for years to come.

If you are interested in learning some other methods for cleaning your Crocs our guide offers different techniques and tricks to help you restore that shine.