How to get rid of the smell of sweat in the shoes at home

To avoid unpleasant odors from shoes, implement a set of preventive measures and treated boots or shoes with special preparations. At home, a bad smell is removed with the help of improvised means, which always have a good housewife.

Causes of smell

The main reasons for the unpleasant smell of shoes:

• Stink generally substandard products: Chinese shoes or sneakers made from a material which is not suitable to wear. Trying to save money, manufacturers use toxic glue with additives, low-quality leatherette, leather substitute. Even fur winter boots from the beginning of socks will emit an unpleasant odor, as is made of low-grade synthetic material.
• Continuous moisture from entering the shoe leads to odor. To prevent this, you need time to repair shoes that defects are not allowed to proceed to the "non-flying" weather. During the rainy wear waterproof shoes.
• sweating of the feet of the most common causes unpleasant odor. To get rid of this smell in shoes, wear socks made of natural materials, for the physical loads his own special clothes for the legs, stop taking alcohol, get rid of the habit smoking.
• Old footwear gradually starts to smell bad, especially if the shoes or boots for a long time did not know the caring care.
• Many domestic cats and seals for unknown reasons it was like to organize a toilet in someone's shoe, so the owners do not throw shoes in the hallway, and put them in a special place in the closet.

If one of the causes of shoes and sneakers smell bad, then get rid of the unpleasant smell one of the selected methods.

Features new shoes

In order to get rid of the unpleasant smell of new shoes, to start buying new insole and put them in place earlier. The inner surface of the shoe with a cotton swab or soft cloth wipe solution of potassium permanganate. This procedure is usually repeated several times.

To eliminate the odor from their new shoes rubbed vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, and cotton wool with vinegar left in the shoe until the morning. After overnight treated them inside special shoedeodorant.

Maintaining healthy feet

To the smell of shoes for a long time does not show itself, it is necessary to pay attention to foot health. daily trays with differentherbs will be a great help in restoring the natural microflora. Effective recipe is a relaxing foot bath of decoction of oak bark. The broth is prepared under reflux for one hour chopped bark per liter of water. Diluting with water, the broth, it was poured into the pelvis, legs held therein for about 20 minutes.

If there is no oak bark, the foot bath made with sea salt, chamomile, succession, yarrow. After the foot bath wiped dry and treated with a cream or ointment antiseptic effect with a deodorizing action. These drugs are used not only after the baths, but after each washing the feet with soap and water.

Methods of getting rid of the smell of sweat in the shoe

Remove unpleasant odor help ordinary matter:

• baking soda;
• vodka or alcohol;
• salicylic acid;
• Go talc baby powder;
• bag used green or black tea;
• Activated charcoal pharmacy;
• a simple soap brown.

laundry products

enough wash shoesBut this is true only if it is made of cloth or other soft materials. Before washing with a sponge or a brush carefully lather inner surface of the sole and the upper to kill sweat, applied brown soap. The treated shoes are half an hour and then wash it.

Sneakers or shoes washed manually, sometimes using a washing machine. To do this, select a lower wash temperature and off spin.

After a long socks

To revive an old favorite shoes of the bad odor, you need to choose one of the shoe treatment options. Shoes must be pre-cleaned, dry the moisture from ventilated to put in place is blown, for example, on the balcony:

• sneakers, shoes and boots wipe with ammoniaGood wetting inner surface, then dried and aerate;
• powdered activated charcoal tablets and left overnight in shoes, this substance perfectly absorbs odors;
• with odor resistant boots or shoes put in the freezer overnight and well frozen out;
• Modern dryer for shoes have the additional effect of destruction of the fungus.

Cleaning with tea or steam

Bag of green tea removes unpleasant odors in shoes, if you put it under the insole. The ground organic coffee is also effective. Reduce odor and dilute it to help various essential oils.

In a difficult situation to help the use of the steam generator. With the help of steam purged and the inner surface of the insole, trying to get to those places where there is the most moisture from the feet.

The use of alcohol or vodka

Defeat the bad smell help alcohol or vodka. To get rid of unpleasant odors in shoes pour the vodka, soaking and well drained. Then put on socks, shoes and worn so long it almost does not dry out. Shoes and then put to dry in the ventilated area to dry completely.

A long standing raw shoes exude musty odor, dispose of it by using regia solution and ammonia. Similarly vinegar used. These solutions thoroughly soak the interior trim and leave to dry for about two days. Mold is not ignored, as it causes the appearance of a fungal disease of feet.

Similarly, use of salicylic acid. Salicylic acid does not leave any marks even on the black product, so it is easy to use without affecting the appearance.

Baking soda, talc and boric acid

The use of soda in everyday situations very broadly, including to remove odors. Soda poured into shoes and shaken to completely cover the inner surface. After several hours of soda is removed from the shoe using this old toothbrush or brush.

special powder such actions are sold in pharmacies. The means used in everyday practice in accordance with the instruction or use urgently in difficult situations.

It acts effectively boric acid or talc these substances are sprinkled inside of the overshoe, left for 24 hours, then purified via vacuum inside the shoe. Suitable method for winter shoes, which strongly impregnated by then socks, sometimes you have to be in the closed heated room, causing sweating feet is even more. In such a shoe insole removed before processing that blur using antibacterial drugs, or simple brown soap.

The smell of cat feces inside the shoe

Gift beloved cat, sooner or later the owner finds in the shoes. This leads to the fact that the shoes constantly exudes an unpleasant odor. This smell is different striking resistance, hardly removed due to the fact that the particles of uric acid does not react with an acid, and a simple washing does not help. The efficiency depends on the processing promptly started.

If the shoe is made of fabric, then, a simple wash with gel, available in the glycerol or glycerine soap. If the surface of shoe made of leather or imitation leather, the inner surface of the soaking solution of manganese acid or potassium iodine. After processing the footwear is dried and ventilate the air.

If fresh-point processing is omitted, and odor resistant and strong, helps acetic solution with water in a ratio of 1: 2. After wetting poured inside the shoe further soda and wipe the old brush. After complete drying of the soda is removed from shoes, shoes airs. Instead vinegar use of citric acid crystals.

Folk and professional products 

People's ways of getting rid of the smell is also quite effective. The most common:

• baby powder;
• flour;
• starch.

Modern tools help to quickly get rid of the odor. They are freely sold in pharmacies or stores of shoes:

• Aerosol deodorants have antibacterial effect and contain perfume. To take advantage of the drug is sprayed a certain amount of material inside shoes and wait for drying. Depending on the type of drug duration of action ranging from days to weeks.
• Drying deodorants are small bags which are placed inside the shoe. After applying pouches dried and re-used.
• Sprays for shoes effective not leave streaks and completely dry.
• Deodorants are used not only for treatment of footwear, but also for the legs purification from bacteria, this jet is directed on top of the foot, the sole and between the fingers.
• In the sale received the special shoe tablets, they are placed in the shoes at night, effectively clean flavor, but quite expensive.
• In stores and pharmacies offer insoles of varying quality, but they are all aimed at eliminating odor, sell cheap prophylactic products designed for frequent and costly replacement with substances against bacteria, e.g., activated coal.

Preventing unpleasant odors

After a long and fruitful fight against unpleasant smell of shoes all want in the future will not have such problems, for this there are some specific rules:

• It relates to footwear care and carefully, that is daily drying and cleaning not only outer cover, but also the inner surface;
• shoe store in a special place with a sufficient supply of fresh air;
• take it a rule to constantly change the preventive insoles, if according to the instructions laid dry, then perform it;
• to ventilate the shoes have a second pair that fits from time to time;
• natural wear socks, stockings;
• if to be a tough job with a lot of pollution, then this include working shoes and wear socks that are necessarily removed before putting on clean shoes;
• acquire shoes or boots, not constraining the foot and toes, tight shoes threatens the emergence of a bad smell.

To deal with the smell of shoes is difficult, but it is quite possible, after all this it becomes clear that it is better to prevent odor.