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Smelly boots- how to de-odourise
 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi All,

My boots are about 5 seasons old now, but have only been used for one week each season Sad

They're a bit wiffy, even though i always take the liners out to dry them after each week and store them in our room each night or on boot warmers.

Anyone got any suggestions on how to get rid of the 'wet sock' type smell they seem to have acquired. Or should i just use that as an excuse to buy new Smile
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lower, Oh yes please, mine smell awful, it's an embarassment giving them to the bloke in the ski hire place. Embarassed
Just bought new gloves because my gloves are wiffy too. I do wash, honest
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lower, We use Febreze Fabric Freshner which seems to work OK.
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Bicarbont of soda in a plastic cup will kill the smell, Just leave it in the boots when you are not using them Very Happy snowHead
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or Scholl foot care do an aerosol product available from Boots which seems to deodourize quite well.
Others will be along soon to deliver sermons on washing feet 3 times a day and putting on clean fresh socks after each run wink snowHead
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Clean fresh socks might well be the cause. I've only got a couple of pairs of proper ski socks, and they get interchanged with hand washing each day. But by the end of the week they've each been worn 3 times and even with handwashing are a touch wiffy.

I'll try all of the above.

What do you do with the fabric freshener? Pour it into the boots?
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lower, You can spray in in as a thin mist, lots of hire shops have it so you could use that if you are hiring skis anyway.
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lower, try searching "smelly boots" - there are lots of threads on this topic.
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I did try searching on smelly boots, but i just seemed to get every post with the word 'boots' in Sad

I'm not so worried about the hire shop aspect as i have my own skis, just my fiance Smile


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lower, To avoid that Click the 'Search all terms' box Confused
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All the above seem to work okay - tried 'em after I posted a similar question a while back. Toofy Grin
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Drink more water ! I know this sounds a bit silly but i find that if i'm not hydrayed my sweat is quite smelly . If i drink plenty it smells of flowers (well not quite)
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.

I found a squirt or two of dettol inside the liners every so often seems to work... Did it once every couple of weeks last season and they seem to be pretty fresh. Doesn't seem to have had any negative effects on the foam - just gave it a little squirt, enough to cover all the interior but not enough to saturate the material. Kill the bacteria = kill the smell. Also a little bit of the stuff seems to stick around preventing the stench coming back.
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