 Poster: A snowHead
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I have a pair of leather Scott racing gloves that have done 2 full seasons. They are still in really good nick - or at least the leather is.
The problem is that they have a rather strong smell to them and I was wondering if anyone has any cunning solutions to this (apart from forking out for a new pair!!) I have heard various traditional housewife style remedies including soaking them in alchohol etc. Before i waste a perfectly good bottle of vodka  can anyone offer any advice or tell me about things that have worked for them in the past? Cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I've seen people say that deep freezing kills all the nasty bacteria that give off the smell. I have washed niffy bootliners in Dettol in the past. Result - smelly feet smell replaced by Dettol smell. Probably a marginal improvement.
I gave up on leather gloves a while ago because mine would invariable stink long before they were anywhere near wearing out. I now use a pair of dense wool mountaineering gloves. They wear out on the edges quite quickly but they're quite cheap and don't get anything like as sweaty as leather gloves.
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I would like to stick with leather if I can - I have had so many pairs of gloves that have perished long before the end of a season - some only after a few weeks. These are great apart from the smell!
Quite like the idea of dettol though - reminds me of my childhood!! TCP could do the same actually - might be bit strong on bubble lifts though!
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How about soaking them in that sterilising stuff - Miltons I think it is - then freezing them. Should kill off the bugs and not leave a smell.
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Buy a pair of gloves made of a waterproof, breatheable material (e.g. Goretex), with leather only across the palms and inner fingers/thumb. I have a pair of Ami Chaud gloves that have lasted for years, and they don't smell at all. Do Ami Chaud still exist does anyone know? Once your gloves start to stink v badly it is probably too late for them. Burn them smelly hands!! 
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I will certainly burn them- the minute the cheque arrives in the post from you for the replacements -much appreciated!!! 
Perhaps I should try some kind of cunning hand deoderant
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marc gledhill, I've used Milton in the past, it works reasonably well. Does tend to screw up the colours!
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waitingforwinter, Pee into a bucket, soak the gloves in the pee for 24 hours, remove, rinse, machine wash in 'woolite' and dry in air with a bent coat hanger to keep the fingers open, then treat the leather with a good leather food.
Alternatively buy gloves with washable liners.
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I got some dakine goretex golves with removeable liners for a little over £45. You could try snow and rock or wait for the ellis-brigham sale. Hestra gloves are supposed to be the dogs balls but I couldn't find any on the internet which were not for importing.
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Edmundh009, S&R normally sell a limited range of Hestras. And I don't think waitingforwinter wants to buy a new pair of gloves - he wants to keep the pair he's got but smell-less!
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I had a pair of North Face gloves that were awful after only a few weeks use. I'd tried deodorant, after shave and air frshener without success. In the end, I bought a new pair, but decided to try and salvage the old ones as well, knowing that if it didn't work, I still had my new gloves to use. I put them in the washing machine at 40 degrees with normal biological washing powder. It worked superbly. You will probably need to treat the leather afterwards though.
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Pee into a bucket, soak the gloves in the pee for 24 hours, remove,
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Three thoughts here -
1 You are an undiscovered genius
2 You just want me to ski around smelling of wee
3 You have some serious issues that ought to be addressed at the soonest possible time.
I am very glad that your instructions include the command to remove the gloves from the bucket of pee though. 
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waitingforwinter, this is Masque's universal remedy for any sort of fungal type infection / pong. And he swears by it. No-one on snowHeads has ever said it didn't work........ but maybe nobody ever tried it. 
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You know it makes sense.
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waitingforwinter, Urine has and is a useful part of many industrial and cleaning processes and is used along with copious amounts of dung in the curing and preparation of the huge amounts of leather sourced from the far east. That leather you're wearing was probably prepared in a large vat of fermenting dog s***!
Get real, uric acid is an ancient remedy and will kill the stink and as long as you wash them carefully and well afterward there will be no stink.
It has to be said that removable liners are the better option.
edit! I do NOT advocate drinking it . . . 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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waitingforwinter,
Masque is right. For example, the process of "retting" flax fibres for the production of linen involved steeping the stems of the plant in urine (usually collected from the entire community). Peeing in your boots is also a tried and trusted military remedy for rendering new boots supple and comfortable.
Personally, I have removable liners that I can wash as necessary. Mine are Kombi, have a "Gore-Tex type" membrane and cost a lot less than £45.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Once you get the smell out, using whatever method, simple put some foot talc in them every night. This will absorb the moisture, and keep the smell down. (and leaves you free to use a toilet again!)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Somebody once suggested microwaving them to kill the bugs  . I still haven't worked out if they were being serious or not...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Do Ami Chaud still exist does anyone know?
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PG, not if they have metal studs or buckles . . . I have heard it used for the sterilisation of underpants I'd think it better to keep scrubbing the offending articles at the source of the problem.
Back to the gloves problem, just been told by a mate that if you spay your hands with an antiperspirant, that will reduce the swear:pong ratio.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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PG, part of the trouble is that as soon as he breathes on them or forgets to wash his hands before wearing them they'll get reinfected. So freezing or radiation are temporary treatments at best: the nutritive value to bacteria of existing deposited sudor must be destroyed. You could follow Masque's advice or use dilute color-safe bleach (my method, works on climbing shoes too).
the ice perv, I saw a brand new pair of them back in March (on a Swiss girl at Ski Roundtop in Pennsylvania of all unlikely things) and I remember asking her about them.
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Smelly gloves...????
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