 Poster: A snowHead
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and my mothers threatening to chuck 'em.
Yep, they're being used for maybe 6 hours a week, every week, and they absolutely pong.
Anybody got any tips/tricks to get rid of the smell, or any ways of making them smell delightful.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Febreze after each wearing. Worked for my running shoes...
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Fabreze!
Such a god send, especially when i was at uni.... failing that, you could try taking the liner out and airing the boot and the liners outside in the cold air for a day to try get rid of the smell.
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Jono, New boots, you know it makes sense 
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Jono, Take the inner boots out after each time that you use them.
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Get the dangle in boot driers. They also seem to prolong lining life and keep them from compressing down towards the end of a ski holiday, and say goodbye to putting your feet in to cold wet boots in the morning.
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Grab a pair of old socks, fill with a handful of cat litter and tie at the top. Put one package in each boot as soon as you take them off and the litter will soon absorb the odour. Just change the litter every couple of weeks or so and they'll stay pong free.
Our daughter has seriously evil feet, but her boots still smell like new.
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Just keep the cat away from the boots though! 
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| Frosty wrote: |
I think there is an ozone type treatment you can have done to eradicate the problem completely but it has to be done profesionally I've heard about it but I'm sure others around here will know of it, I opted for the new boot route because the shiny colours were nicer than my old faded ones  . Logical
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This might work - http://www.aqua-digital.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductID=1066
Put the end of the air pump in your boots and set it going. Make sure it's in a well ventilated place though. Ozone only hangs around for about 20 minutes before it breaks down into oxygen.
We use Ozone generators at work for recycling water and our units produce a total of >1000g/hour ie 3000 times what this unit produces. Just 30 seconds exposure to that and it takes me a couple days to fully recover.
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Febreeze, but see if you can get the anti-bacterial version. Works even better.
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You know it makes sense.
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take the inners out, make sure they are dry, then stick them in the deep freeze overnight.
the cold kills the bacteria that makes the pong
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comprex, tbh, no. People are more likely to go to the local supermarket and buy some spray like Febreeze or get some 'sneaker balls'. It's only gadget freaks like me that will look to using a technological solution.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| veeeight wrote: |
| Febreeze, but see if you can get the anti-bacterial version. Works even better. |
ahem, Freezing does not kill Bacteria mereley makes in active until it is warmed up again, hence the old maxim of NEVER re-freezing frozen food 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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...oh, and try putting foot talc in them as well.
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| ...oh, and try putting foot talc in them as well. |
I have absolutley no proof but I reckon a build up of foot talc gives the smell somewhere to live
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| boredsurfin wrote: |
| veeeight wrote: |
| Febreeze, but see if you can get the anti-bacterial version. Works even better. |
ahem, Freezing does not kill Bacteria mereley makes in active until it is warmed up again, hence the old maxim of NEVER re-freezing frozen food |
Why did you quote me, and then talk about freezing? I didn't!
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Jono, Start with Milton sterilizing fluid. Put your liners in a bucket and give them a good scrubbing soak in Milton at least twice or untill they are completely niff free.
For your feet -WHICH ARE THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM - go to a decent health-food store or herbalist and buy a tub of 'Extra Virgin Coconut Oil' (should look a bit like Vaseline). Rub it well into your feet, toes, nails etc. at night and wear socks to bed to keep the sheets clean and use a tiny amount during the day in the same areas.
This will get your feet health, bacteria and fungus free (it will also cure nail fungus with time) and once your liners are sterile, use just a tiny bit of oil or TeaTree oil to keep your feet uninfected (and dry your liners out of your boots every night.
Coconut oil is good for skanky nuts too.
(you could wash your liners in a bucket of p¡ss first for a guaranteed best result, but for some reason it's not popular here)
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you could wash your liners in a bucket of p¡ss first for a guaranteed best result, but for some reason it's not popular here
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apart from any other consideration, how long would it take to produce enough wee wee to soak ski boot liners in? And then why not add virgin coconut oil, cat litter, febreze and foot talc, just to be really sure?
The theories about damp do sound highly relevant. And do you change your socks every day? That helped with my son's pong. We have a cold air blower in our apartment (cheap, in French hardware stores) and always leave the boots on them after skiing, and they don't seem to have a problem. I have arthritic hands and find getting liners in and out of boots killing, so mine stay in permanently I'm afraid.
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Yeah, clean socks every time, it's just they're getting worn like a pair of trainers the amount of skiing I'm doing at the moment.
I'll air the liners when it stops raining and invest in some febreeze and some coconut oil for my nuts 
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Crumpled up newspaper, pamw, if you can't get to a dryer, then throw it away before bedtime.
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veeeight, marc gledhill a: I didn't type Skanky's and b: That you two 'loss leaders' seem to have an issue with the idea of having your nether regions slathered with a warm topical unguent just demonstrates a small life, barely lived.
(the early 70's were an interesting time for jungle fungal infections . . . you learn wot works and wot don't) . . . and I didn't say anything about self application now did I?
Jono, make sure it's extra virgin.
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| Masque wrote: |
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(the early 70's were an interesting time for jungle fungal infections . . . you learn wot works and wot don't) . . . and I didn't say anything about self application now did I?
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At risk of a coconutoilboarding crimes prosecution, does the soap have desirable anti-critter properties?
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You know it makes sense.
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comprex, Did you want to use the grey coloured DDT impregnated stuff? (there's got to be a storehouse still full of the crap). But XVC'oil is not a soap, just use it as an after-wash moisturiser or a little more generously on a fungal infection and it will cure it. It and TeaTree are the only natural products to treat fungal nail infections and XVCoconut oil can be used at full strength and will cure it if used diligently.
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Poster: A snowHead
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comprex, sorry I thought you were talking about the Gov.issue stuff that was basically a DDT delivery system. And this lot can barely read the front label of a beer bottle 
I find it both sad and funny that people will spend stupid sums of money on pharmaceuticals that are a poor and barely effective shadow of their natural alternatives.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Jono, Just remember to get the products the right way round, and not to rub extra virgin coconut oil into your boot liners, and spray your nads with Febreeze. Else your mum really will have something to say.
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and fabreze just did'nt come close but now have no (ok very little) issues with smelly boots. Interestingly I thought mine were bad but a friend of mine has boots that can be smelt whilst actually ON, slightly embarrasing in crowded telecabine's 
