stop boots smelling

Guffy

Play 3 days a week. Any ideas how to stop boots from stinking?

Kirby

Clean them.

You'll find it works with other things too.

DVDM93

Put tea bags inside them. The tea bags absorb the odors. Genuinely. Look it up. I'd advise against making tea with them afterwards though for yourself anyway :P

Mr.Nice Guy

DVDM93 wrote: »

Put tea bags inside them. The tea bags absorb the odors. Genuinely. Look it up. I'd advise against making tea with them afterwards though for yourself anyway :P

Careful. Tea bagging may not be allowed. Certainly not before a game!

DVDM93

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Careful. Tea bagging may not be allowed. Certainly not before a game!

I'll see ya in the showers afterwards so x

Lovely Bloke

Those Silica Gel packets will work better than teabags, just get a few from whatever you buy next and put them inside the boots when you aren't wearing them.

The smell generally comes from moisture (either from sweat, or rain/dew), and the Silica Gel absorbs moisture.

If your feet themselves are smelly get some tea-tree oil and apply with cotton wool morning and night for three days, in between your toes, bottom of your feet, top of your feet to just below your ankle, smelly feet are caused by bacteria which the tea-tree oil is very effective at getting rid of.

whiskeyman

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

If your feet themselves are smelly get some tea-tree oil and apply with cotton wool morning and night for three days, in between your toes, bottom of your feet, top of your feet to just below your ankle, smelly feet are caused by bacteria which the tea-tree oil is very effective at getting rid of.

Where can you get that stuff?
Chemist?
Health shop?

Really should do something, as I'm driving herself mad with the pong!
I nearly can't stand it myself!

Lovely Bloke

I've seen it in places like Boots, Lloyds and Health Food shops too.

It comes in a little brown bottle, like this



It's great stuff, I have very sweaty feet, and even with anti-odour insoles in my shoes my feet need treating with Tea-Tree about twice a year.

When you put it on in the morning (after a shower obv) it kind of seeps out through your socks into your footwear, and has an affect there too.

But yeah, a few drops on cotton wool per foot, twice a day for 3 days and you'll be sorted.

Lucas Hood

Throw some baking soda into an old sock and leave in each shoe while not using them. That'll get rid of the smell.

Oranage2

I heard cold temperature kills the bacteria so maybe try throw your boots in the freezer after every game.

ErinGoBrath

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Throw some baking soda into an old sock and leave in each shoe while not using them. That'll get rid of the smell.

This works.

Gbear

Kitty litter, apparently.

Sirsok

I always put talcum powder in my socks before puttin on my boots, soaks up moisture which help to stop smell and blisters. Haven't had a blister since doing this

dobman88

I just use odour eaters. Do the job perfectly

Morf

Clean boots, put newspaper in boots, bit of a spray of shoe deodorant now and again.

Smelly feet would want you moving away from polyester socks towards cotton when possible.