Saphir Natural Crepe Wood Brush for Cleaning Suede & Nubuck Leather Shoes

OMG! I cannot believe how well this brush works on my suede and nubuck! I have had suede shoes in storage for years. I bought some used Timberline boots and this brush worked so well that I used it on my over 10 year old shoes. All of my suede and nubuck now look stunning and brand new!

Great quality crepe brush

Really nice already used it on shoes. Works as expected and what hs recommended.

I decided to buy this suede brush after buying a nice pair of suede shoes I wanted to maintain. I chose this one over the other rubber brushes I saw because the rubber ribbons seemed more compact and better secured to the wooden base. Since I haven't used other suede brushes before, I can't say how this one compares, but I can say that this brush works really well. The material is a lot like those rubber cement erasers you buy in craft stores. I tested it on an old, really dirty pair of nubuck shoes, and with a little bit of elbow grease, 90% of the deep smudges were gone and the flattened nap was restored. The brush is still in good shape afterwards, none of the ribbons are coming apart from the base. Just like a pencil eraser, it did wear down slightly and I imagine it will need to be replaced eventually. I'm pretty impressed haha.

I was surprised by this brush. It is much more effective than anything else I've found at raising the nap on nubuck without causing damage. Suede brushes and scotchbright are too agressive for nubuck, but this really does the job. You can still get some scratches in your nubuck if your rub too hard or too much with the edge, but overall this brush is the one to get. I take off one star because the crepe does pickup some dirt/nap/color from the nubuck, and the crepe itself is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to clean. After time, I would be concerned about color transfer if the brush had been used a lot on dark nubuck and then you used it on a lighter color. So if you have some nubuck that is black or dark, and other that is a light tan, you might want to have two of these to keep them separate.

Nice new brush scheme for suede maintenance

Very good for my suede Birkenstocks when wet

The crepe brush is hard to use because it’s too stiff to follow shoe contour. Though it may be OK on a smooth nap, on my gray pebbled nubuck shoes it flattened the pebbling and made the color look lighter, though I tried to use it gently (which is hard to do since it's so stiff). Fortunately, I’d only tried it on the arch area of one shoe and stopped when saw the damage. The boar bristle brush I’d used before did no harm.