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Sorry to bring the forum down. But I need to find a way of removing the smell of stale cheese from my sons boots. He didn't bring them in from the van after the last session so after a Christmas break and 1ft snow for a month, they were sitting in damp surroundings gathering cheesiness. They've been drying in the linen room, so warm and dry but still a certain cheddaryness....
How do pros solve boot stink? Do they just buy new liners?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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i find all the solutions to be temporary but some combination of the following might help:
1. make sure you dry them out after use
2. stick em in the freezer
3. febreeze
4. applying vicks vaporub to your feet before sticking them in the boots
my latest experiment will be vapour barrier socks. this has potential to be really disgusting but the idea is that the sock stops the sweat escaping into the liner. getting trench foot is a possibility...
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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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the commercial products work quite well. eg Scholl Shoe Spray Odour Control. Apply as often as you can (need to let it dry off) and eventually it gets rid of it.
Bicarb of soda and vinegar solution works well on smells - but leaves a vinagar smell in its place. Wouldnt recommend that here but it can be the lessor of two evils in some situations.
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For a moment I thought that this was going to be a Wallace and Gromit thread, but no Wensleydale mentioned..... 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I wash my gloves in a mild bleach solution if they get stinky. If the liners can be washed that might be an option. Make sure they are rinsed properly though as the bleach might cause a reaction.
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I left my liners to soak in a strong bicarb solution and it worked well. Needs a lot of rinsing though.
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Thanks! I think my son's feet are quite fresh-smelling, it's just the mildew effect of a long sit in a van. His boots are salomon soft, the liners are tied into the hard outer shell. I'll try the febreeze and see how that works.
SorryBMF_Skier, but Cheese versus vinegar sounds like a crisp flavour....
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tea tree oil. Works on rock shoes.
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lardons and cream with potatoe and red onions. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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If you leave them in front of the fire to dry out is there a risk they'll turn in to Raclette? 
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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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I've read somewhere that microwaving the inners (after drying them out so they don't boil) works.
Of course, the next person to use that microwave to cook food is a hero.
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Buy a packet of pegs.
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You know it makes sense.
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Use Milton Sterilising Fluid... the stuff they use for baby bottles. I got some to clean my water bladder tubes for mountain biking.
Milton Sterilising Fluid allows you to sterilise in just 15 minutes, killing bacteria, viruses, fungi and spores (tough dormant bacteria). It has been used in hospitals for many years as a simple and very reliable method.
Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Tue 18-01-11 1:40; edited 1 time in total
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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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... or if the smell's REALLY bad use Stilton Sterilising Fluid
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Poster: A snowHead
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If the liners are wet, which they almost always are, they need to be removed from the boots overnight and dried in whatever warm location there is. Another trick is to place dryer sheets in the liners overnight, while also taking the liners out of the boots. Dryer sheets really help. I've been using them for years having read about the trick in some forgotten publication.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Do the boots need to be washed very Caerphilly? 
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Scarpa, 
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| Scarpa wrote: |
| Do the boots need to be washed very Caerphilly? |
How smelly can they brie? Not that I give edam.
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come on you plonkers...I camenbert all these cheese jokes.
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You're all emmentalle.
Have made a nice fondu - boots are fine now.
x
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| Dot. wrote: |
| come on you plonkers...I camenbert all these cheese jokes. |
DING DING.
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unless your son is fondue of the smelly ones, sounds like an ideal opporchancity for some new boots, although that may grate! 
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shoogly, Fondue? You're really scraping the barrel now . . . want an egg in there?
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