 Poster: A snowHead
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This is from the website of Ski Republic, the new ski equipment hire chain in France:
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| We believe in the strictest standards of boot hygiene, utilising special insoles at all times to avoid any suspicious smells. |
In all seriousness, how do "special insoles" prevent one punter's foot bacteria affecting the next punter's?
Without putting too fine a point on this, a sweaty foot (not necessarily washed every morning) inside a synthetic inner boot will generate a fair amount of bacteria over a week. Not sure that there's anything suspicious about it.
On a personal level, how do you deal with ski boot hygiene issues?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Insoles using 'Silver Fiber' kill all known bacteria 'Dead'.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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What about the rest of the inner boot, which must be 3-4 times the surface area of the insole?
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| On a personal level, how do you deal with ski boot hygiene issues? |
I take a deep breath on approaching the boots and hold it until I've got my feet in.
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David Goldsmith, Have you got smelly shins? 
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Baking soda; plonk it in kills the smell  Normally all summer and then every couple of weeks during the season when I am not using them
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I just pop em in the washing machine - 40C - in with the 'delicates'. Makes a bit of a racket but lovely and fresh after.
Line dry - obviously...
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red 27, Quality line.
Ordhan, I saw that in a copy of a ski mag, have not tried it but will give it a go if I remember!
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I washed my liners on a cold wash in the washing machine.
Seemed to do the job.
Now i've got more ski socks and i don't have wear a pair more than once the smell problem seems to have disappeared.
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Ordhan, do you just use the powder, then tip out the surplus? Sounds like a good idea; it does the job in fridges.
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David Goldsmith, I think your issue about the rest of the foot is correct. The insole is just under the sole of the foot. I was taught at school that we have sweat glands over most of our skin. I would have thought the bacteria would need to have touched the silver to kill it. Maybe the shops need to insist on silver woven into the the entire inner of the boot or insist that skiers/boarders use sock impregnated with it.
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Yes, but it's not my problem 
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You know it makes sense.
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Smartwool socks + boot dryer = non smelly boots
As above, fresh pair of socks each day and use the boot dryer straight away.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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DO NOT WASH YOUR LINERS. IT VOIDS ANY WARRANTY AND BREAKS DOWN THE LINER. THIS MAKES YOUR FEET COLDER.
Seriously. I've fitted boots for a long time. If you wash your liners it breaks down the glues and resins that hold all the materials together. If those break down then the material in your liner will form clumps and folds. This causes sore spots and numbness. No foot bed can fix this.
Now here is the trick to keeping bacteria away. Use Anti bacterial baby wipes once a week during the season. Just quickly wiping the liner inside and out before placing them on my thermanator boot dryer. At the end of the season spray them good with Lysol anti bacterial spray and place them in the sunshine for about 2 hours.
You will be good to go for the next season.
And the biggest advice I can give people that have sweaty smelly feet. Use your antiperspirant on your feet before you put your ski socks on.
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Poster: A snowHead
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VolklAttivaS5,
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If they are that bad then you might as well write them off and start as you mean to go on when you get your next new boots.
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You must be rich!
One question for one and all - just when have you ever been on a chairlift, on the piste, in a bar, gondola, etc etc and thought 'Jings, that person's feet are rank, it must be their boot liners...'
50p air fresheners from supermarket have been tried in this house when the boots get consigned to summer storage, but to be honest it was rubbish. The bicarb does sound a good idea though.
Clothes peg sounds good to me.
Megamum - true we have sweat glands on our shins too, but there are different types of sweat glands on our body and the ones on our feet are the pongy kind. Some of us are just plain unlucky and have honky feet. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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MarjMJ, When they get their next new boots. As in when they have new boots one day, whenever that might be, or indeed if they ever do, then start as they mean to go on with the new boots and don't let them get in the same state as the last pair by taking the precautions above as we have commented eg try bicarb of soda, try clean socks, etc etc.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You lot want to try smelling climbing boots after an indoor training session 
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I just wash my socks in the shower each evening. Never worried about it any more than that.
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the best thing to put on your feet, before clamping them into a pair of boots for 10 hours, is atheletes foot cream..
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CANV CANVINGTON, and if you don't want to go the pharmaceutical route, you can use coconut oil or Vicks Vapour Rub
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Anyone also suffer from smelly gloves? I am experimenting with Scholl shoe spray but while it seems to work on the boots the gloves still stink.
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Jehu, once your gloves are stinky only a nuking in the microwave (if no metal bits) and hot wash in bio cleaner will shift it. Some say a soak in Milton's sterilizing fluid will also work. Once your gloves are clean (or new 'cos they got well and truly boogered in the wash), go with the athletes foot cream, c'nut oil route or us Bio-Sen body spray well rubbed in especially around the nails and nail bed.
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have you guys considered the possibility that you just ming, period?
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14 weeks of use and my boots reek!! So what? They're bloody comfy (well as much as boots can be), I rarely get cold feet and usually in a boot room, there are plenty of other culprits too. Why worry?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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hydroeon My other half had this problem and we found that it wasn't the boot liner at all it was the plastic footbed in the bottom of the boot (not really a footbed, more a flat piece of plastic). We prised it out and the underside of it was covered in black stuff which was the smelly bit. A quick wash in fairy liquid sorted it out. No more smell.
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You know it makes sense.
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'Silver Fiber' is also available in underpants so you can pack a bit of silver round the old family jewels.
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FAQ
that suffer with stinking boots (obviously stinking hire boots can't really be avoided-this is assuming you have your own boots) this is the key to non-smelling boots IMHO. If they are that bad then you might as well write them off and start as you mean to go on when you get your next new boots.
. Perhaps not the stuff that perfumes are made of but far preferable to eau de sweaty mouldy boot! 
