Now, I wasn’t necessarily no-meat by any means—I just ate enough to not have an iron deficiency, though. Arby’s seemed like an extra bonus circle of Hell and Kentucky Fried Chicken just made me squeamish—what can I say? Everybody has their own individual food preferences, ya’ know?
Anyway, this friend of mine and I would eat lunch with the rest of our group at least once a week together, and let me tell you, they all bore witness to the many lowkey disagreements we had over literally everything, from straws and saving the sea turtles over on to whether electric cars really were the future or not.
Surprisingly enough, we actually had fairly similar ideas about meat. There was this one time that we were talking specifically about the supply chains for food products, and as for myself, I felt like locally sourced products were easier on the environment, and also cheaper to boot.
I remember that he held up a hand to pause our discussion, the rest of the friend group waiting with bated breath, and he mentioned something about how hunting was about as local as it could get. I opened my mouth to respond, but then shut it pretty quickly because, to my utter shock, I found myself in agreement with him.
Now, I can’t say that I could hunt down lunch if it came from anywhere other than the fridge or stovetop, but I was extraordinarily grateful for the extra bit of frozen deer meat he’d gifted me for Christmas. Yes, yes it was a rather odd gift for the holidays, but it was locally sourced, free-range meat and I actually felt like my friend and I had finally found some common ground.
Treading that common ground takes a certain kind of footwear, however. A good set of hunting boots tends to be rubber, leather, or some other kind of synthetic material, all of which (somehow or another) just aren’t the easiest to clean when they get a lil’ bit funky.
Stinky hunting boots totally aren't for the win, though. Don’t you worry though, because with these upcoming hunting boot deodorizing hacks you ought to be able to finally fix that footwear funk of yours for good!
Right then, let’s clear something up while we’re working on clearing up your shoes’ stink. It turns out that it’s not actually the fault of your feet for creating the footwear funk. That’s right, ma’ dear yet dank-smelling readers, your feet are in the clear– even if they don’t smell like it.
So it’s actually this stank-producing bacteria that we’ve got to worry about when it comes to the bad smells wafting up from your stinky hunting boots. The smelly bacteria’s favorite things to chow down on just so happen to be the dead skin cells which naturally sort of slough off of your foot and also on the moisture from any leftover sweat hanging out inside of your face set of shoes. Not the greatest, I get it, but don’t you go on forgetting that this is literally everybody here, alright? Basically, everybody has got the same pungent problem when it comes to their shoes, so don’t feel bad about it, alright?
We can, however, make sure that we do something about this funky footwear fiasco! White vinegar, for example, is sour enough that even the smelly bacteria are going to crinkle up their wee lil’ microbial noses at it.
Now, you don’t have to go out and spend buckets of money on the fanciest vinegar (save the good balsamic stuff for cooking up something tasty, ya’ got it?). For real, if I were to be frank with you, I would simply use whatever variety of vinegar already presently resides in the back of the pantry, or just use whatever kind is going to be the easiest on the wallet. Cheap vinegar for the win!
And usually, that just tends to be plain ol’ white vinegar. With hardly any effort on your part, you absolutely can use vinegar to quickly deodorize sticky hunting boots. All you need are some cotton rounds or pads that you’ve soaked in your vinegar of choice, then you’ll want to stuff them all into your smelly hunting boots for at least overnight, or even longer if you can manage to spare the time for it.
Second up for all y’all we’ve got charcoal envelopes! Yes, I really do mean charcoal, as in that self-same stuff that we get from all of those extra fabulous summer BBQs. Oh yes, we’re talking the literal carbon that we’ll all be scraping off of our hamburgers and other assorted grilled food items as the weather starts to get a lil’ toasty again.
I mean, all of the love to the “master griller” of the house (I’m actually quite convinced that every household has one, or is adjacent to a household that does) who somehow has come to the conclusion that they are literal grilling gods that can do no wrong when it comes to the family cookout. Fortunately for their ego (and perhaps somewhat unfortunately for anyone with functioning taste buds) nobody ever really tends to call these folks out when they manage (seemingly every single time, quite literally without fail) to char up anything that had previously had at least some potential for being edible. A moment of silence, if you’ll please, for all of the *crispy* (and totally not literal ash in our mouths) hamburgers that said *grill master* charbroiled.
Thankfully, these days you can easily obtain charcoal without the local BBQ. Most local grocery stores will sell charcoal in the form of these super convenient tablets, sans *grill master*. Said charcoal is basically just carbon that’s been superheated, hailing from any number of sources, although such items as coconut husks, bamboo, and the like are all pretty popular.
When superheated, you see, the carbon forms these tiny wee holes along its surface, and that’s what’s able to absorb odors! Pretty cool, am I right? It’s almost like nature’s own lil’ sponge, if you will.
And thank goodness, because our poor used and abused nose hairs could use all of the help that they can get (if you’ve got any still left after the stinky catastrophe of your smelly hunting boots). All you need in order to deodorize stubborn shoe odors with charcoal is a couple of tablespoons of the stuff inside of a small, resealable envelope and then you can just go on and tuck it all into the stinky boots in question.
Make sure that you’re able to leave the charcoal in there for at least overnight, or even longer if you can. Also make sure that you’re replacing the charcoal inside of the lil’ envelope every so often, just to keep everything smelling as fresh as it could possibly be.
How about baking powder? Can the common kitchen ingredient really take on the utter terror that has become your stinky hunting boots? Yes, yes, and before I forget, also yes.
I mean, of course you could be keeping baking powder from achieving its full potential and keep it relegated to its regular kitchen duties. You know, the usual things we like to use baking powder for. Baking powder? More like baking power, as it helps our baked goods to properly reach their fluffy, much-vaunted and lofty heights. Or perhaps when you add just a dash of the stuff into your fried chicken’s flour dredge to get that perfect crunch. There’s literally so much you can do with baking powder when it comes to all of your culinary adventures.
But you’ve got to trust me when I tell ya’ that baking powder has got loads more potential outside of cooking and baking. You can absolutely use baking powder to deodorize stubborn odors (such as the rank old cheese smell presently wafting up from your stinky hunting boots– don’t go on pretending that you don’t know what I’m talking about)!
All you need in order to finally fix stinky shoes for good is a couple of tablespoons of baking soda dashed straight on into the smelly shoes in question. Pretty easy, am I right? Now alternatively, if you’re worried about leaving a dust mess for future you to clean up (totally valid, ma’ dear, yet sadly stinky reader), you can also just go on and place about the same amount of baking soda (that’s a couple of tablespoons if you’ll care to recall), inside of a sock that you can then tie off securely with a rubber band or something akin to that.
You’ll also be wanting to make sure to leave the baking soda inside of your funky shoes for at least overnight, although going for longer can only help to solve the pungent problem, alright?
Did you think that your kitchen could only help you to save your stinky shoes from certain dank-smelling doom with the help of baking powder? Oh no, the kitchen has plenty of extra amazing and super easy methods of shoe deodorization for all y’all to go on and try out.
Just take nutmeg for example! The warm-smelling spice might make you think of baked goods (such as donuts, muffins, or even cake), but there’s more to nutmeg than meets the eye (and nose, as you’ll soon discover and hopefully smell).
Either powdered or whole nutmeg will totally work just fine to help ya’ out with solving the mephitic mayhem of your stinky shoes, although to be honest you probs should just go with whatever form of the sweet seasoning is already just hanging out in the back of your spice cabinet. A word to the wise (and thrifty!)-- if you for whatever reason feel the need to go out and buy a brand new thing of nutmeg (which is kind of dumb, why the heck would you want to do that!? There are literally four other easy shoe deodorization hacks in this article), then the powdered version is likely going to be just a bit easier on the wallet.
All you’ve got to do in order finally take out the super stank wafting up from your smelly hunting boots is scoop a couple of tablespoons of powdered nutmeg (or a couple of whole nutmeg seeds) right on into the shoes themselves, making sure to leave overnight or longer, just like with the baking powder.
Also like with the baking powder, you could totally just put the nutmeg into a securely tied-off sock in order to make sure that in the future you don't get stuck cleaning out a dusty shoe on top of finally figuring out how to make shoes smell better for good.
Fifth of our super fabulous and easy shoe deodorization hacks is LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer. This ultra effective and super successful shoe spray is completely natural and practical to (hunting) boot (if you’ll pardon the pun).
And don’t feel like you just have to take my word for it, my beloved yet quite likely bad-smelling reader! There are over 10,000 (yep, you read that right– it’s 10 freakin’ THOUSAND) people over on Amazon who have decided to write up LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer a literally perfect 5-star review, averaging out to a supes solid 4.4 star average overall on Amazon. It’s pretty easy to see why this is their best-selling product.
Amazon reviewer “RKJ” here was skeptical at first of natural products such as LUMI being truly capable of getting the job done when it comes to deodorizing stinky shoes, but they still decided to give it a shot, and have found that it works! Not only that but also the fact that LUMI also totally doubles as an absolutely fabulous (and effective) air freshener!
LUMI also just so happens to be a pretty cool company on its own. They’re a small, entirely family-owned business that never tests on animals (ever), sources only the highest quality of all-natural ingredients, and they also make literally all of their products in the United States! It’s ok, you have my express permission (and also my direct and enthusiastic encouragement) to cue all of the glitter cannons, the raucous parades, and the large choir because LUMI really is just that rad– don’t forget the team of unicorns, please and thank you very much.
And beyond any of that (although it’s all pretty cool), LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer additionally can be used as an air freshener of sorts! Remember that one Amazon reviewer? “RKJ”? The one who found that LUMI smells better than literal Febreeze!? Heck yeah, it does! Do you, perhaps, have a stinky kitchen sink that just won’t stop smelling like old fruits and vegetables? Hit it with a spray of LUMI? How about a musty garage? Oh yes indeed, LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer has got your back, ma’ dearest reader!
And your feet, thankfully because it’s finally time to deodorize your stinky hunting boots for good! No more funky footwear with LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer in hand! All you need is a spritz or two of the stuff straight on into your smelly shoes and then you ought to be all good to go off on your next adventure!
But let’s just take a pause for a moment, because I don’t know about all y’all, but that was a whole lot of ways to quickly deodorize shoes in a pretty short amount of time. How about a summary of it all?
I mean, as for me, myself, and I, summaries are kind of the greatest (for real), given that I have the memory of half a hamster on the very best of days. So, let’s walk through all five of the best fixes for stinky hunting boots real fast, shall we?
White vinegar is first up on our list of easy stinky shoe deodorization hacks, and trust me when I say that the venture is going to be pretty hands-off on your part. For real, the whole idea is fairly straightforward for fixing your funky footwear. The naturally inherent acidity found in the white vinegar (or any kind of vinegar that you’d like to use, really) just isn’t that great for the stank-producing bacteria. Oh yes, remember them? The actual root cause of your poor pungent peds? And whatever those stinky wee lil’ suckers aren’t fans of, we’re HUGE freakin’ fans of! Bring on all of the vinegar, I say! Or, actually, just enough vinegar to soak a couple of cotton pads or rounds that you’ll then make sure to stuff inside of your smelly shoes, leaving overnight or longer (in order to really ensure a bad smell-free success).
Charcoal envelopes are second up, and they’re also super easy to make and then use to finally fix those stinky shoes of yours for good. Charcoal, if you might care to recall, is simply just carbon that’s been superheated, the process of which goes on to form these tiny wee pores along the surface of the material that can then absorb pesky, problematic odors such as the old cheese smell that’s been seemingly stuck like glue to your fave set of (sadly funky) footwear since what seems like forever. All you’re going to need is a smallish envelope and then a couple of tablespoons of charcoal (which typically comes in these super handy tablets that most grocery stores sell nowadays, or should you not be able to find any, then the internet has plenty of sources, such as Amazon). Simply fill up your envelope with the aforementioned couple of tablespoons of charcoal and then slip one into each of your stinky hunting boots, allowing it to sit overnight or longer if you can find the time to spare for it. Make sure that you’re replacing the charcoal every so often, otherwise the charcoal is going to just act like an oversaturated sponge, incapable of absorbing anything more, ya’ got it?
Baking powder is third up on our list of quick shoe deodorization tricks, and absorption, kind of like with charcoal, is totally the name of the game here. Baking powder, unlike charcoal, however, absorbs straight-up moisture– literally like nature’s own bona fide sponge. Baking powder might be renowned for its… well, its baking capabilities; all of the lofty heights reached by delectable culinary delights are mostly due to baking powder, of course. All you need is a couple of tablespoons of baking powder stuffed straight on into your funky footwear, or alternatively (if you’re hoping for an easier cleanup, that is– and who the heck wouldn’t be?) you could also potentially put about the same amount of baking powder into a securely tied-off sock. Either way total is going to work for ya’, although I would make sure that the baking powder stays inside of the fantastically funky footwear for at least overnight, going for even longer if you think you won’t be needing said smelly shoes for a bit.
Nutmeg might make for a tasty addition to a good donut or tin of muffins but it’s also going to make for a wonderful addition to your stinky shoes! Powdered or whole nutmeg will do just fine, and all you need is a couple of tablespoon’s worth stuffed into the smelly shoes themselves or a securely tied-off sock to leave overnight or for even longer if you can manage (I’m sure that you know the drill by now.
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the fifth of our fabulous and super easy ways to deodorize stinky shoes quickly and believe me when I tell you that it is utterly fabulous. This high-quality shoe spray only takes a spritz or two directly into the smelly shoes in question and that’s all you need! I’m telling ya’, this is about as easy as it gets. Do you want one of the best immediate ways to deodorize smelly shoes? This is it, ma’ dear, yet almost certainly dank-smelling friend. Stinky salvation comes in the form of LUMI for you and your funky footwear!
And that’s all five of our fabulous and super easy tricks for deodorizing stinky hunting boots! Go on and smell utterly fantastic!
]]>No? Well, me neither. Honestly, I have all of the grace of a tuna fish on land. Surely you know the feeling? Muddy hikes, icy streets, and other such slippery situation are absolutely the worst. I totally wish that I could say I was kidding when I say that the only way that I can do the splitz his when one leg goes flying up and the rest of me has a rather abrupt introduction to the hard ground.
Why, hello there concrete! A pleasure to make your (slightly unanticipated acquaintance). Thank you ever so much for the new bruise! And to be completely honest with all y’all, that’s why I tend to really enjoy a solid pair of shoes with really good tread. Now, I’m not talking about the lame wannabe hiking boots that were on discount at your local Target or something like that.
Oh no, I mean lug boots! Not only are those well-treaded boots particularly trendy at the moment (although that certainly doesn’t hurt). Lug boots actually also tend to be really great if you’re working on your feet all day and just really need to make sure that you keep your balance.
But how does one clean lug boots. It’s not exactly as though you could expect to be able to chuck their work boots into the washing machine or anything like that, am I right?
Cleaning up stinky lug boots doesn’t have to be difficult, though! Use any of these upcoming quick smelly shoe deodorizing hacks to finally fix stinky shoe problems for good!
So, you’re new to this whole easy shoe deodorizing thing, meaning that new soles probs sounds absolutely bonkers to you. Trust me, my soon-to-be stink-free acolyte, all of these tricks actually can work for you, and there’s actually a solid bit of reasoning behind all of it.
You see, new soles are actually going to be super great for helping to eliminate stinky shoe odor for good because of a wee lil’ bit of science. As it would so happen to turn out, funky feet totally aren’t your fault. They’re really the fault of bacteria that lives on your feet because they just love to feed off of the moisture leftover from your sweat and also the dead skin cells which just sort of naturally slough off on a fairly regular basis. There’s totally no reason at all to be embarrassed, m’kay? Literally every human being ever has had stinky feet because of this stank-producing bacterial, alright?
But don’t you worry, because taking on the terribly funky bacteria totally won’t take all that much work on your part. Replacing just the inner soles of your stinky lug boots is all it takes to really freshen up your (hopefully soon-to-not-be) funky footwear.
You see, the sole of your smelly shoes helps to retain sweat (*read: moisture that the bacteria likes to chow down on), dead skin cells (a tasty treat for the aforementioned bacteria), and also the stank-producing bacteria themselves.
So go on and take those soles out and replace them with something fresh– your nose (and quite possibly everybody else’s) will thank you.
Corn starch is also super fabulous for keeping work boots smelling fresh. Now, I totally get that when you hear the phrase “corn starch,” your mind might just go wandering down the culinary route. I mean, corn starch is actually really amazing and utterly incomparable at thickening pie fillings, puddings, gravies, and it’s even capable of making your (obviously already fabulous) fried chicken even more delectably crunchy than it already is (all you’ve got to do is add in a wee lil’ dash to your flour dredge, if you were wondering– you’re welcome!).
Corn starch is really great at doing all of those things in the kitchen (and probably even more that I don’t know off the top of my head) all because it’s utterly terrific at absorbing any and then probs ten more kinds of moisture– and that totally includes any leftover moisture in your shoes from sweat!
And you likely already have a spare tin of this stuff sitting in the back of the kitchen cupboard– am I the only one, or does corn starch always come in these humungous tins? I mean, that’s totes not a bad thing for my wallet, although kitchen space is already at a premium, so I suppose everything balances out.
You can easily deodorize smelly lug boots with just a couple of tablespoons of corn starch dashed straight on into the stinky shoes themselves. Alternatively, if you’re worried about making sure that you won’t have to worry about a difficult (and definitely dusty) cleanup for future you, then you can simply put about the same amount of corn starch in a sock that you’ve tied off with a rubber band or something, and then you can stuff that corn starch-stuffed sock right on into the funky footwear.
Make sure that you’re leaving the corn starch inside of the stinky shoes for at least overnight, although going for longer will definitely help to pack a more pungent punch!
Can you use cinnamon to deodorize bad smells? Even stinky lug boots that smell like old cheese (and really likely to be considered a biohazard to anybody with functioning sense of smell)? Oh yes, cinnamon can even take on that level of radioactive variety of footwear funk!
I know that using cinnamon to fix smelly lug boots sounds absolutely loco, but trust me, cinnamon is good for more than just smelling like the autumn candle discount section! Of course, that’s not to say that cinnamon isn’t the actual best at being one of the best scents for any comparably basic items. You know what I’m talking about– the aumtumnesque Krispy Kreme donuts, the Christmas potpourri, and (oh yes) the ever-famous (and much sought after) pumpkin spiced latte from Starbs– don’t go on and try to deny that you wouldn’t wait in a line ten miles long for it! We all know that pumpkin spice is life, even though it’s literally spring at the moment– there’s no denying it!
Cinnamon is totes the kind of smell that we all want more of in our lives– unlike that weird old cheese smell that is presently wafting up from your smelly lug boots.
All that you need to use cinnamon to deodorize smelly lug boots is a few tablespoons of the spicy stuff dusted right on into the stinky shoes in question– or, if an easy cleanup is a worry for ya’ (as it would be with us all, of course) then you can also totally stuff the cinnamon into a securely tied-off sock, just like we might have done with the aforementioned corn starch.
Make sure that you’re leaving the cinnamon inside of your stinky lug boots for at least overnight, although longer is only going to make it smell even more like a Yankee candle store during the holidays, so the longer the better, of course.
Now, I’m sure you’ve heard of charcoal before if you’ve ever been party to a local summer BBQ. Ah yes, those adventures in culinary catastrophe where it always seems like every adult in the nearby vacinity suddenly becomes a complete pro of a chef. Your uncle who usually does cereal and sandwiches? Oh yeah, obviously he can now do grilled vegetables? Or how about the old man? Dad surely can cook seemingly over a hundred hamburgers, hot dogs, and the like without a single one getting burned.
Those are (crispy and charbroiled) fever dreams, of course, given as that every BBQ seems like a prime time for (not ribs, but) charcoal creation. I mean, maybe that one vegan friend going for the salad has the right idea? Charcoal ain’t seasoning, despite what that one “expert” family member insists– even after they’ve burned half of the spread, sadly enough
You can’t tell me that the last time it was s’mores night with the fam that at least one (or 20) marshmallows met their toasty doom at the end of an overly enthusiastic (and perhaps somewhat impatient) roaster. *Raises hand* I’m definitely guilty as charged when it comes to burning marshmallows like no tomorrow– for real, who has the kind of patience it takes to get that epically golden, crispy texture that I just can’t seem to wait long enough for without simply sticking the marshmallow closer, setting it ablaze in a wee lil’ sugary torch.
Charcoal really actually works well to deodorize plenty of things (like your stinky lug boots with the fabulous tread). You see, charcoal is basically just carbon that’s been super heated (basically burnt times a million gazillion), and when that happens charcoal forms these tiny lil’ pores that help to absorb odors. Pretty rad, am I right?
Now, obviously we aren’t going to be scraping the (abundantly) spare charcoal from any of those aforementioned adventures in outdoor cooking. Nowadays, it’s actually super easy to get charcoal in the form of small capsules or tablets. You can easily get these things from your local grocer or even online, if you’d like.
Just dash a couple of tablespoon’s worth of powdered charcoal into a small envelope (straight on into the stinky shoes would probably stain something, of course), and then stick that envelope right on into your smelly set of lug boots. Leave everything be for at least one night, but a little longer likely won’t hurt anything. The charcoal-filled envelope ought to last for about a day or so before you need to toss the old charcoal and restock the envelope.
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is fifth of our fabulous and super easy ways to quickly deodorize stinky shoes of all kinds. LUMI is a super amazing, all-natural shoe spray that can take on even the crazy level of funk that you’ve got in your old lug boots!
And you don’t just have to take my word for it, ma’ dear yet-dank-smelling reader! There are over 1000 people over on Amazon who have given LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer an utterly perfect 5 out of 5 stars, averaging out to solid 4.4 star rating overall– that’s pretty swell, btw. Amazon reviewer “Katherine house” here says that she sprays both her and boyfriend’s factory shoes with LUMI right when they get back from work:
LUMI also just so happens to be a pretty freakin’ amazing company all in their own right. Besides making pretty fantastic shoe sprays, they’re a small, family-owned business that only uses the highest quality of all-natural ingredients, and they also make all of their products in the United States! Go on, you have my express permission to feel free to cue all of the glitter cannons, the parade of unicorns, and absolutely don’t forget that you include the choir chorusing in the back, because yes, they’re actually that rad.
Beyond all of that, LUMI can also totally be used to deodorize a whole bunch of other things besides your stinky lug boots. Do you perhaps have a smelly kitchen sink? Spray a bit of LUMI! How about a rank bathroom garbage can? Yeah, a spray of LUMI can def handle it, no worries.
All you need for your funky footwear to smell like new again is a quick spray or two of LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer and you ought to be all set to go! Whether it be hiking, work on a factory floor, or any other kind of long-standing activity where you need your smelly lug boots to… well, not smell anymore, then a quick spray of LUMI and you’re covered!
But how about wee lil’ summary of all of these easy and quick shoe deodorization hacks and tricks? I don’t know about all y’all, but I tend to have the memory of half of a hamster, and so a summary tends to do a world of wonder when I need to remember and understand something important, such as finally fixing your stinky shoes for good!
Getting new soles for your beloved (yet definitely bad-smelling) set of lug boots is the first of our options for easy ways to fix stinky shoes quickly, and it’s just about as easy as it gets. On a regular basis, the soles of your shoes soak up plenty of moisture from your sweat and they also retain a whole lot of the dead skin cells that naturally slough off of your feet– both of which are some of the stank-producing bacteria’s fave things to chow down on. Think of the soles of your shoes as a sort of refrigerator for that stinky bacteria– totes not great for any of those of us who still have a functioning sense of smell. But never you fear, because all you need is another set of soles to fit inside of your stinky lug boots, and then you’ll be well on your way to freedom from the footwear funk! Musty mayhem averted!
Corn starch is our next super simple stinky shoe hack. Like we’ve mentioned, the aforementioned stinky bacteria really loves all of the leftover moisture from your sweat and any extra dead skin cells. Like in all seriousness, your shoes are basically an all-you-can-eat buffet that the stank-producing bacteria have access to literally 24/7, whether we like it or not. Corn starch saves the day (and any of our remaining sense of smell) because it just so happens to be utterly fabulous at at absorbing any and all kinds of moisture– including the leftover moisture from the sweat inside of your shoes! All you need are a couple of tablespoon’s worth of corn starch dashed straight on into your stinky lug boots (or into a securely tied-off sock. Make sure to leave the corn starch to do its thing for at least one night, but leaving the corn starch for a lil’ bit longer will definitely help your shoes to go back to smelling brand new before you know it!
Cinnamon sticks it to the shoe stank with its own vibrant and totally amazing autumnesque scent. Cinnamon is reminiscent of everything amazing about that time of year– the baked goods, the glowing candles, and the like. Cinnamon helps to replace the sour, old cheese stank presently wafting up from your smelly lug boots, leaving instead a pleasantly spicy odor. Dash a couple of tablespoons of this classic spice straight on into your smelly lug boots, or alternatively you could instead just put the same amount into a tightly tied-off sock that you can then place in your boot. Regardless of which method you go for, make sure that you keep the cinnamon inside of your stinky set of lug boots for at least overnight, although I totally won’t stop ya’ from going for just a bit longer, should you have the time for it.
Charcoal envelopes are up next and trust me when I say that they totally make for some of the easiest and most successful shoe deodorizing tricks out there. Charcoal is essentially just superheated carbon (even more toasty than when you accidentally set your last marshmallow meant for a solid s’more on fire), and when this carbon gets superheated the underlying material forms these sort of pores that a really amazing at absorbing any and all kinds of oder (and that means the super stank that’s totally taken over your very favorite set of shoes)! Seriously, this stuff can take on all kinds of funk, and that’s great for anyone with pungent peds! A plus for us is that nowadays you can absolutely get charcoal from your local grocer or even online with ease. You can totally get charcoal in these wee lil’ convenient tablets that makes this next step super easy. All you need are a couple of tablet’s worth of charcoal that you’ll pour into a small envelope– NOT straight into your stinky shoes, or even a spare set of socks, otherwise you’ll be facing some pretty hardcore stains, sadly enough. A small envelope’s worth of charcoal out to last you overnight, maybe two, but if you’d like to really make sure that the super shoe stink is gone, you can empty out the original envelope and refill it with a fresh supply of charcoal to absorb the shoe stink.
Then number five for you and your funky shoes is LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer! It’s a solid solution to literally any kind of stankThis super amazing and all-natural shoe deodorizing spray literally only takes a spritz or two directly into the soles of your smelly set of lug boots and you ought to be all set to go! Feel great because you smell great (and probs look great in your utterly fabulous shoes)!
Lug boots are great for any number of things. Whether you’re using your fabulous lug boots for fashion’s sake or because their really amazing tread makes for great work boots, we all know that shoes can get a bit, well… funky, which totally sucks for anyone around you who hasn’t already singed off their poor nose hairs from the musty mayhem that is your footwear. Trust me when I say that I know that it can be tough to truly take out the super stank that has seemingly infested your poor pungent peds.
Any of these five options for figuring out how to quickly deodorize stinky lug boots ought to be able to help ya’ out, but if you’re worried about making sure that the footwear funk doesn’t make a smelly comeback then you can also totally feel free to go on and try a few of these simple stinky shoe deodorization hacks out in combination. I mean, if one will work well, two or three in tandem really ought to show the stank who’s in charge (that’s you btw, in case you weren’t totally sure).
So go on and take your pick out of these quick stinky feet hacks. You and your poor used and abused nose hairs deserve it!
]]>My first introduction to softball was gym class in elementary school. The poor teacher was bravely trying to explain the difference between it and plain ol’ baseball.
“Yes, it’s softball,” she said. “Where you hit the thrown ball, and then–”
“So… baseball?” one kid chimed in.
The teacher looked over at him warily, taking a deep breath before she tried again. “No, no, it’s softball, which…”
I had personally clocked out at that point, realizing that I was in for another gym class where I’d be failed by my terrible lack of hand-eye coordination and utter lack of knowledge regarding baseball or softball. It was all just for fun, so what did it matter? If I utterly failed, then what was the worst that could happen?
I expected, of course, a solid frown and shake of the head from my gym teacher, but she knew that I always gave it my best effort, so while both of us knew that I personally wouldn’t likely be the next local softball prodigy, that didn’t deter her from having the entire class try this new sport out.
Don’t you worry– my team didn’t have just me going to bat for them. Luckily, the whole venture was an intrepid group effort, so I got to watch and learn as other students tried out this new sport for themselves.
Now, I’ll have it pointed out that some of these players really were quite fabulous! There was, however, just one tiny thing that we all had in common by the end…
That’s right: really stinky shoes! Softball can totally work up a sweat!
But never fear, because here are five genuinely fabulous (and easy!) shoe deodorizing hacks for all of y’all to go on and try out!
Now, you might be wondering why we started out with literal food on this list of really easy tricks to make your stinky softball shoes smell better. Like, wouldn’t all be better off just saving the lemons and limes for yummy things? I mean, there’s lemon meringue pie, key lime pie, lemon bars, and… oof, apologies for the terribly tasty tangent– but I promise that it all has to do with making those stinky shoes of yours not smell like you just rocked on the softball field.
You see, it all has to do with some stinky bacteria. Sadly enough, basically everybody’s feet are home to this smelly bacteria, which can also conveniently (or not so conveniently, one might suppose) move onward to your socks and shoes as well. This stinky bacteria absolutely love to feed off of the moisture from any leftover sweat and also the dead skin cells which just sort of naturally slough off pretty regularly– totally nothing to be embarrassed about, ma’ dank-smelling (but still doubly-amazing) dude, as we all have that same smelly problem to worry about! Every human being has that same stank-producing bacteria hanging out on their feet, but with this next super easy deodorizing tip, you won’t have to worry about that footwear funk!
Lemon and limes factor into all of this because they have a sort of natural acidity, which provides an absolutely delectable tang when it’s added to desserts or any sort of cooking, but is an utter disaster if you’re that aforementioned stinky bacteria! As it would so happen to turn out, said smelly bacteria don’t like acidity, which means that we love it!
Just get a couple of tablespoons worth of lemon or lime peels (either work just fine!), making sure to cover the floor of your stinky softball cleats (right where your smelly feet usually go), and then leave the fruit peels in there for at least overnight, or even longer if you want to give the acidity enough time to properly work its tangy magic– just make sure not to leave everything in there for too long, as fruit peels can get funky themselves if left out, and we wouldn’t want to make your shoes have a different kind of dank stank!
Second up on our list of really easy softball cleat deodorizing hacks is plain ol’ rubbing alcohol. We use it as a general cleaner because of how strong this stuff normally is, and trust me when I say that it can totally take out the terribly stinky odor presently wafting up from your poor, pungent peds.
I mean, let’s be completely honest here– your rank footwear could take out an entire horse, caught unawares. That old cheese funk emanating up from your shoes? The one that even the most prized and expensive blue cheese makers across the world would just love to know the secrets behind? This shoe stink is stubborn, it’s quite possibly radioactive (who’s to say?), and it’s definitely taken out more than its fair share of honest, hardworking nose hairs (may they rest in non-pungent peace).
But we can absolutely fix all of that. As it would so happen to turn out, rubbing alcohol and all of that stank-producing bacteria just aren’t besties, you see. Like, think water and fire, broccoli and heart attacks, cats and dogs, or perhaps… yeah, I think that you probably get the picture– rubbing alcohol and the whole sprawling root cause of the footwear funk simply don’t go together.
If you haven’t guessed by now, all of this just means that we’re TOTALLY going to be putting the rubbing alcohol in with the stinky bacteria, because we’re totes over the mephitic madness that is presently hanging about your sadly stinky shoes. What’s bad for the smelly bacteria is great for us and whatever is left of our remaining sense of smell!
All you need to deodorize stinky softball cleats with rubbing alcohol is a few cotton pads or rounds. Soak said cotton rounds with rubbing alcohol and stuff it all straight on into your smelly shoes, and then let it all hang out overnight or longer if you know you don’t have any softball games or practices coming up.
So you want to properly deodorize your stinky softball cleats, and I’m going to swing out on the proverbial limb here and assume that you’re also going to be wanting to do all of this fairly cheaply, am I right? For real, who the actual freakin’ heck wants to break the bank in order to break the bad-smelling stank wafting up from your smelly shoes!? If that sounds like you– and let’s be real, it sounds (and smells!) like everybody– then why not reuse something you might already have hanging around the house?
But seriously, newspaper? Yes, seriously, newspaper! We can totally use the daily rag to wreck the wack stinks smelling up your funky footwear. There’s actually a really valid reason for my saying this, ok? Believe me when I say that newspaper is absolutely one of the best (and easily one of the more simple) shoe deodorizing tricks out there.
It all works because of a wee lil’ thing known as “sizing.” This “sizing,” you see, is basically a sort of glaze that’s been painted over the words and pictures on your morning newspaper. The sizing absorbs water and slurps it up like a tiny bonafide sponge so that it can’t get to and destroy the ink and paper beneath it– pretty cool, am I right?
So sizing can absorb moisture, and moisture, if you may care to recall, is what the stank-producing bacteria like to chow down on, meaning if we get rid of it then the smelly bacteria will be out of luck, out of food, and hopefully out of ways to make those softball cleats of yours stink!
All you’ve got to do to make your smelly shoes smell better ASAP is crumple up some newspaper into some balls and then stuff everything right on into the funky footwear in question. Make sure to go on and leave the newspaper to sit in the stinky shoes for at least overnight, going for longer if you really want to make sure that the newspaper and its sizing glaze has had a fairly solid chance to take out the shoe stank.
But perhaps you don’t have any paper newspapers to spare. Does anyone else here remember the last time they actually held a real-life, paper magazine or newspaper in their hands? I mean, of course you could always try and borrow the daily paper from a kindly neighbor who perhaps hasn’t set off down the digital path quite yet (or is already wandering it, scratching their head because they’re somewhat lost).
If newspapers aren’t something you can easily get a hold of though, perhaps you’d like to try out essential oils. That’s right, ESSENTIAL OILS– you know, those absolutely fantastic and viral lil’ suckers that everybody’s been raving about for years? Of course, maybe you’ve been living under some sort of (very well-insulated) rock that simply didn’t offer the very best wifi connection, and you somehow don’t know what essential oils are and why everybody seems to be going crazy about ‘em. That’s alright, we’ve got your back.
Essential oils are literally just carrier oils with tiny lil’ bits of plants floating about in them– we’re talking microscopic here, ya’ got me? Those wee bits of plants transfer some of their smell to the carrier oil, meaning that when you put even just a few drops of an essential oil on something you’ll also be getting some of whatever lovely scent it’s been steeped with.
Think of essential oils almost like you might pickle juice– ok yes, that’s it, essential oils are literally just a kind of bougie pickle juice. Make sense?
So do you want your stinky shoes to smell like peppermint? How about citrus? Maybe even vanilla? How about eucalyptus? Literally just pick your favorite plant smell, and there’s probably an essential oil out there for it. Deodorize your stinky softball cleats super quickly and easily with just a few drops of whatever essential oil you pick onto a few cotton pads or rounds and then you can stuff all of that straight on into said smelly shoes. Leave everything in there undisturbed for at least one night, but totally feel free to go for longer if you’d like your shoes to smell more like the essential oil you ended up picking.
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is fifth on our list of utterly simple and easy tricks for how to deodorize smelly softball cleats easily and successfully. LUMI is an all-natural shoe spray, you see, and it’s absolutely fabulous for fixing stinky shoes for good!
And you totally don’t just have to take my word for it– there are literally over 10,000 reviewers over on Amazon who have given LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer a solidly perfect 5 out of 5 stars, averaging out to a weighty 4.4 stars overall. It’s the company’s best-selling product, and it’s totally easy to see (and smell!) why! Amazon reviewer “AS” here says that it worked well for her girls’ volleyball AND softball cleats! For the win!
LUMI also just so happens to be a pretty fabulous company themselves. They’re a small, family-owned business that only ever sources the highest quality of all-natural ingredients for each of their products, they never test on animals, and they also make all of their products in the United States!
LUMI is also pretty great if you need to deodorize things other than your stinky athletic shoes as well. Do you have a stinky kitchen sink? How about a stubbornly rank garbage can? A spray or two of LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is all it takes to save you and your remaining sense of smell from such mephitic mayhem. No more noxious fumes for you to worry yourself about!
All you need in order to finally fix stinky shoes for good is a spritz or two of LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer straight on into the smelly shoes in question and then that’s it! LUMI is literally as simple as it gets! Badda-bing-badda-boom!
Ok, but how about a quick review of all of these super easy shoe deodorizing hacks? I certainly don’t know about all y’all, but I have the memory of half a guinea pig (and that’s totes being generous), so reviews and reruns are kind of my favorite thing. What do you think?
Lemon or lime peels are first up on our list of how to deodorize stinky softball cleats! These sour fruit peels work to fight the footwear funk because they have this super steller (and natural!) acidity that can easily take on the super stinky bacteria. Yes, yes, I know very well that we could potentially be using said lemons and limes to be making some pretty delicious snacks (lemonade after a softball game sounds absolutely fabulous, doesn’t it?), but trust me, you’ll survive if you have to sacrifice a few fruits for fighting the footwear funk! All you need are a couple of tablespoons worth of either lemon or lime peel, making sure to spread it all out evenly across the floor of the stinky shoes in question, and then you’ll want to leave everything in there overnight. Go for a few hours longer if you’d like to, just make sure not to leave the fruit peels inside of your (hopefully soon-to-not-be) stinky shoes for too long because they’re… well, food, and we don’t want it to go rotten and stink up your shoes even more!
Rubbing alcohol is one of the absolute best and easiest ways to fix stinky shoes quickly, and it totes couldn’t be any more simple. The rubbing alcohol can quickly take on the stank-producing bacteria (so like, the whole reason why your fave set of softball shoes smells the way it presently does–IOW rank old cheese), and all of this is why we totally want to use rubbing alcohol to clean up those stinky softball cleats of yours ASAP! Simply soak some cotton pads or rounds in some of the rubbing alcohol, stuff ‘em all right on into your smelly shoes, and then leave them in there for at least overnight, although longer would totally help to pack a more pungent punch when it comes to your stinky athletic shoes.
Never worry about stinky shoes ever (and I really do mean ever) again with some plain ol’ newspaper! That’s right, the daily rag helps to make sure that you never hit a snag when clearing out the sorry smell hanging about inside of your shoes (you know, the rank smell that’s totes strong enough to knock out the opposing softball team? Yeah, not a sound strategy, alright?). Newspaper can easily (and don’t forget cheaply!) help us on out here, all thanks to a fun lil’ thing called “sizing.” This stuff is essentially a glaze that printers will use to help their readers protect their daily paper from any rain, snow, and whatever else mother nature thinks to throw at ya’ before you get a chance to take the paper inside. Rather than have the newspaper run from all of that rain, the “sizing’ is able to absorb any spare moisture and hold onto it, protect the paper and ink beneath it. Said “sizing” can also help to absorb sweat, luckily enough for all of those us hoping to save our shoes (and whatever remaining sense of smell we may be so fortunate as to still possess following the devastatingly dank consequences of that funky footwear). Remember how sweat feeds the stank-producing bacteria? No sweat means that they eat less and also stink up your shoes less– winning all around! So crumple up some old newspaper into balls, stuff everything straight on into your stinky softball cleats, leave it all be overnight (or longer! Go for the gold!) and then you ought to be all set!
Then there are essential oils, AKA the better-smelling cousin to pickle juice. Essential oils have two parts, you see– the carrier oil and also whatever microscopic lil’ bits of plants are floating around in there. The carrier oil, you see, kind of helps to evenly distribute whatever fantastic smell that it’s been steeped with. This means that we literally only need a few drops of your selected scented essential oil to finally fix your fave (if a bit funky) shoes of yours for good! All you have to do is put a few drops of your essential oil onto some cotton pads or rounds (peppermint, vanilla, citrus, etc. are all very popular if you’re having a difficult time deciding which scent to choose from), and then stuff all of that cotton into your smelly softball cleats. Make sure to leave the cotton pads in there for at least overnight, although your shoes will smell even more fabulous if you make sure to leave everything in there for even longer.
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the fifth quick hack for deodorizing stinky shoes that we’ve got for you, and it totally couldn’t be simpler. This all-natural shoe deodorizing spray is precisely what you need to up your shoe game before your next softball game. There’s no need to go on and give up on your fave set of stinky athletic shoes simply because they smell bad (even if said scent is enough to knock out passersby– yes, yes, even then!). Just a spritz or two of LUMI right on into your smelly softball cleats, and you’re going to be all set to go and conquer the next competition without the crazy foot smell!
There we have it, my fine (and hopefully no longer funky) folk! Softball is totally one of the most fun sports out there, and you totally deserve to be able to play your best game without fear of that dreaded footwear funk! When it comes to enjoying a solid game of softball, it always helps to not have feet that reek, so go on and use any or all of these easy stinky shoe deodorizing hacks! Try ‘em in combination if you’d like! Any of them ought to finally do the trick and get your stinky softball cleats to smell better for good!
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Shoe odor is a universal problem. One day, you're happily strutting down the street, and the next, you're met with a repulsive smell emanating from your once-beloved footwear. Fear not, dear reader! We've compiled a list of the top 10 ways to eliminate shoe odor and keep your feet smelling fresh. From DIY methods to the ultimate Lumi Outdoors natural shoe deodorizer spray, we've got you covered. So, buckle up and say goodbye to smelly feet for good!
Baking soda isn't just for baking cookies! This kitchen staple is a powerful odor neutralizer. Sprinkle a generous amount inside your shoes and let it sit overnight. The next day, tap out the excess and enjoy the newfound freshness. Baking soda is safe, affordable, and easy to find – the perfect recipe for odor-free shoes.
Baby powder isn't just for keeping baby bottoms dry. This versatile product is also an excellent shoe deodorizer. It absorbs moisture, which is essential to keeping odor at bay. Just dust your feet with baby powder before putting on your shoes, and you'll be ready to go. Bonus: Your feet will feel silky smooth too!
Put your kettle to work and brew your way to fresh-smelling shoes. Black tea bags contain tannins that kill odor-causing bacteria. After brewing, let the tea bags cool, then place them in your shoes for an hour. Remove the bags and let your shoes dry. Not only will your shoes smell better, but you'll also get to enjoy a delicious cup of tea!
Don't be put off by the initial smell – white vinegar is a powerful, natural shoe deodorizer. Mix equal parts water and white vinegar, then spray the inside of your shoes. Let them air dry, and the vinegar smell will dissipate along with the shoe odor. Trust us; this sour solution will sweeten your shoe game.
Sometimes, the best way to fight shoe odor is to put your shoes on ice – literally. Place your shoes in a plastic bag, seal it, and pop them in the freezer overnight. Freezing kills bacteria and neutralizes odor. Just remember to let them thaw and dry completely before wearing them again. Cold feet, fresh shoes – a win-win situation!
Cedar chips aren't just for keeping moths at bay. These fragrant wood chips also work wonders for eliminating shoe odor. Place a handful of cedar chips in a breathable cloth bag, and leave it in your shoes overnight. The cedar will absorb moisture and leave a pleasant, woodsy scent behind. Nature always knows best!
Prevention is better than cure, and that applies to shoe odor too. Proper shoe care is essential in keeping your kicks fresh. Always make sure your shoes are dry before putting them away. Use a soft brush to remove dirt and debris, and consider using a shoe tree to maintain their shape and absorb moisture. A little TLC goes a long way!
Don't play favorites with your shoes; rotating your footwear is a surefire way to keep shoe odor at bay. Giving your shoes time to air out and dry between uses prevents bacteria buildup. Plus, it's a great excuse to expand your shoe collection. Variety is the spice of life – and the enemy of shoe odor!
Sure, the previous nine methods are great, but we've saved the best for last. Lumi Outdoors natural shoe deodorizer spray is the ultimate choice for eliminating shoe odor. This powerful, all-natural formula is made from a blend of essential oils, which not only neutralizes odor but also leaves a refreshing scent in its wake. And with ingredients like lemongrass, mint, and tea tree oil, it's gentle on your shoes and the environment.
But what sets Lumi Outdoors apart from the other methods on this list? For starters, it's incredibly convenient. There's no waiting overnight, no messy powders to clean up, and no need to freeze your shoes. Just a few spritzes, and you're ready to hit the pavement.
Moreover, Lumi Outdoors is versatile. While the other methods may work well on certain types of shoes, this spray is suitable for all footwear – from sneakers to leather boots. It's also great for gym bags, lockers, and even yoga mats. With Lumi Outdoors, you're not just investing in a shoe deodorizer; you're investing in freshness for your entire life.
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]]>And I truly did end up meeting some really cool people! I learned some neat skills, had more than a few rad adventures, and all of this also helped me to broaden my palate when it came to clubs and different hobbies.
One night, my friend told me about how after class someone had been handing out flyers for SALSA NIGHT at the nearby student community center. Now, did my very food-centric self first think about chips and dip? Oh yes.
I very much thought that any proper kind of “salsa night” meant that I was about to be sampling the most lovely (and hopefully spiciest!) dips with some very fine (and also hopefully not crumbly) tortilla chips. I was picturing tomatoes, jalepeños, parsley, essentially all of the ingredients we would be seeing at this here salsa night.
I was a wee bit wrong– salsa night, as it turned out, was all about salsa dancing. While there were sadly no culinary masterpieces for me to sample, it was totally way cool to learn a new kind of dance! I had no idea that salsa dancing took so much skill, grace, or technique! I mean, I had known that any kind of dancing was probably pretty difficult, but the really professional dancers at that salsa night took on rhythmically difficult music, moved synchronously with their dance partners, and– ok, I’ve totally just got to say that they also absolutely had the coolest clothes!
Glittery fashion, stunning shoes– oh the shoes! Seriously, I had shown up in my old (yet very much beloved) sneakers, while some of these people had the most gorgeous footwear! Sparkly, heeled, almost anything you could want in a fabulous set of shoes was there!
I had worked up a sweat by the end of salsa night, and I can’t imagine how sweaty those actually amazing dancers were. My one remaining question for them (besides whether or not there would be a salsa night take two, where chips and dip might be involved this time around) was how the freakin’ heck everybody cleaned all of their gear!
I mean, exactly how does one go about figuring out how to deodorize salsa dancing shoes? It’s not exactly like those flashy shoes could survive a trip through the washing machine!
Since salsa night, I’ve learned some pretty swell stinky shoe deodorizing hacks, so read on if you’d like to learn how to fix those stinky shoes of yours ASAP (and you most definitely do, so onwards we go)!
So, steam cleaning? As in, the magic wand that suddenly waves away the wrinkles on formal clothing when you’re in a pinch for time? As in, bibbity-bobbity-boo, go be wrinkle-free? Yep, that’s the one! And how does it all work? How, exactly, can you use a steam cleaner to fix stinky odors for good? Ah well listen up, ma’ dear yet rank reader, because it all comes down to just a wee lil’ bit of science.
First off, you see, it’s not actually your feet that are making your shoe smell off. As it turns out, the footwear funk is actually a result of some stank-producing bacteria that just so happens to live on your feet, in your shoes, and on your socks– yeah, the bad-smelling bacteria are kind of everywhere, which totally sucks. Said stinky bacteria feeds on the spare moisture from any leftover sweat hanging out inside of your shoes after your fabulous salsa dancing and also on dead skin cells which sort of naturally slough off of your feet– all of this is totally natural and absolutely nothing to be ashamed of btw. Literally everybody has stinky feet for the exact same reason, alright? Literally, EVERYBODY, got it? This doesn’t mean that we can’t try our best to shake the bacteria and that rank stank, though!
Steam cleaning is absolutely amazing for taking on the aforementioned stank because the super toasty temps of the steam basically sock it to the bad-smelling bacteria. The hot water takes care of the root cause of the smell, so you can go on and salsa, free from worrying about smelling like literal death itself.
Stick the steam cleaning wand into the shoes, and hold for just about 20 or so seconds (not too much longer, as we don’t want to melt anything important in your fave set of salsa dancing shoes).
Then just make sure that you allow your dancing shoes to properly dry out after you steam clean ‘em. Sticking your feet back into your freshly-cleaned footwear will just allow the stinky bacteria on your feet to have easy access to the moisture from the soggy shoes you just put on. Bad idea! Very VERY much a bad idea! Like what did we just do all of this deodorizing for!?
Allow your shoes to really (and I actually mean QUITE thoroughly) dry out– perhaps even leaving them out for a night– before trying to put them back on your feet again.
Now, I know that you know, and we all know, that soap is definitely super great for washing hands and such with a bit of warm water and about 30 seconds or so. Soap is that oh-so-wonderful thing that takes out stains, grime, dirt, literally all kinds of things, but it turns out that that’s not quite everything soap is really great for! Is soap a sort of superhero? Oh yes, and it’s totally capable of helping us out with saving all of our poor used and abused nose hairs from a certain dank doom.
So how, precisely, does all of this work? Don’t you worry your perfect (yet probs just a bit pungent) pungent self. I’m totes not going to be asking you to break out the scrubber and spend hours scrubbing at your funky footwear. I mean, as much as we obviously love our stinky salsa dancing shoes, who the actual freakin’ heck has time for any of that?
No, no, we’re actually just going to be using dry bars of soap to help us to deodorize your funky footwear for good. You see, water and soap work in tandem because each is a team player but on their own, each item has a different job. Water is a mechanical force, you see– a sort of literal shove for the grime and grossness that you wash off. Soap now, on the other hand, actually helps to burst apart the fatty, protective membrane surrounding the smelly bacteria that we’ve been chatting about– you know, the actual source of your shoes’ terrible smell. Think about this membrane as the little stinkers’ last line of defense and without it, the sorry stank we’ve all been worrying about will totally be a thing of the pungent past.
So, with just two dry bars of soap, it’s really actually rather simple to fix smelly salsa shoes. All you have to do is stick each dry bar of soap into the stinky shoes in question and leave them to hang out there for at least overnight, although you could absolutely go for longer if you’d like. I can pinkie-promise you that the soap won’t hurt your shoes, and we totally want the dry bars of soap to be able to have enough time to work their magic on your smelly shoes’ stank!
Or maybe you just don’t have too many spare bars of soap hanging around– after all, liquid soap works pretty alright? Who needs ten kinds of the same thing stocked up anyway? Totally all good, ma’ fine (yet just a wee bit funky) friend. There are several more options for easily deodorizing stinky salsa dancing shoes coming right on up for you.
Plain ol’ white vinegar, for one such example! Oh yes, that tangy stuff we use to help dye Easter eggs! The rad base for many a wonderful salad dressing, emulsified to perfection, of course. Or even the amazing acid to the baking soda for some 4th-grade science fair projects– those acid and base volcanoes are absolutely legendary for a reason you know!
And the coolness of vinegar totally doesn’t stop there. You can quickly and successfully use vinegar to fix stubborn shoe odors because this sour stuff has some downright wonderful (and natural!) acidity that can totally take on the terrible stank wafting up from your poor pungent peds.
The acid from the vinegar, you see, is absolutely able to sucker-punch the stink-producing bacteria that have been smelling up your funky footwear! It also doesn’t really matter what kind of vinegar you use, btw. White vinegar tends to be fairly cheap and you also probs already have some hanging out in the dusty back of your kitchen pantry, but if you instead have apple cider vinegar or something that also ought to work just fine for you and your stinky shoes.
I mean, go on and use your fancy, expensive balsamic vinegar for this quick shoe deodorization hack if you’d like to, but you really don’t have to. For real, whatever is cheapest or whatever you already have in the pantry is the kind of vinegar that I’d go for.
All you need to make stinky shoes smell better easily with vinegar is a few cotton pads or rounds. Soak them all in your vinegar of choice, and then stuff everything straight on into the stinky set of shoes that you’re hoping to deodorize. Leave the vinegar-soaked cotton rounds in there for at least overnight, although I’d totally leave it all be for just a lil’ bit longer if you happen to have the time to spare. The longer the better, so that the white vinegar can have the time it really needs to properly pack a pungent punch to the stinky bacteria.
A freezer? What, are we going to try and make our shoes stink-free popsicles? Of course not, we totally wouldn’t do that… absolutely not. There’s not even a whiff of a chance that we’d ever even attempt such a thing. What an idea. What an… idea?
Oh yes, ma’ beloved yet bad-smelling friend, those stinky salsa dancing shoes of yours are going to be taking a quick chill pill in the chilly locker in your kitchen. Better send out a PSA to all of the quarts of sherbet and ice cream, the 6-month old cheesy casseroles you’ve stowed away and definitely *haven’t* forgotten about, or.. well, maybe just let all of your frozen goods know that they’ve got to save a space for your very favorite (if a bit funky) set of stinky salsa dancing shoes!
The smelly bacteria, as it turns out, don’t produce quite so much musty mayhem when they’re cold. I mean, being a popsicle might do that to anyone, I suppose, which totally rocks for all of those of us who still might claim to be the proud owners of any sort of remaining (or functioning) nose hairs– a big stretch, of course, considering the nigh on radioactive levels of funk wafting up from your poor pungent peds.
Deodorizing your stinky salsa dancing shoes is super easy with a freezer. First off, you’ll want to put your stinky shoes into some sort of pillowcase or perhaps even a ziplock bag, seeing as how we *probably* don’t want essence of foot funk settling in amongst the poor ice cream already inside of your freezer (now there’s a Ben and Jerry’s flavor I think I could probs live without). Stick your stinky shoes, now all properly bundled up, straight into the freezer, and then you’ll want to leave the shoes in there for at least overnight, although longer will really help to make your shoes smell better for good.
But maybe the idea of storing your sour-smelling salsa dancing shoes with your ice cream actually makes you want to scream (absolutely understandable!), so thank goodness we have LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder as our fifth fantastic footwear deodorization hack.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is an all-natural and super fabulous shoe deodorizing powder that can easily help you to finally fix those stinky shoes for yours for good!
And you totes don’t just have to just take my word for it! Hopefully, you can instead take the word of the over 600 utterly perfect 5-star ratings left by reviewers over on Amazon, averaging out to a solid 4.6-star rating overall. One such Amazon reviewer, a certain “Joe Navy,” here says that LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder made his funky shoes smell as though they had just come straight out of the box!
LUMI has super amazing, all-natural ingredients such as zinc oxide, bentonite clay, kaolin clay (basically every one of the great clays)-- all of which are ABSOLUTELY fabulous for you and your skin. LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder also is utterly amazing at preventing stinky shoes in the first place by preventing moisture in your shoes. I mean, how rad is that!?
All you need is a lil’ bit of LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder straight on into your stinky salsa dancing shoes, and then you ought to be all set to go! Never ever (and I really do mean ever!) smell like funky old cheese again when you go on and dance it up!
Now I don’t know about all y’all, but I wouldn’t remember my feet if they weren’t securely attached, much less my shoes and how to deodorize ‘em. Like for real, five easy shoe deodorizing tricks, and I need to remember the details for every single one? Not to worry, because I am absolutely a firm believer in summaries, so let’s just run through each of the quick ways to fix stinky salsa dancing shoes, shall we?
First, perhaps you steam clean shoes to make them smell better– in order to show the stinky bacteria who’s really the freakin’ boss around here (that’s you, ma’ dear, salsa-dancing reader, if you didn’t already know). The hot temps from the steam certainly won’t be doing the smelly bacteria any favors, and so in turn they won’t be able to produce as much footwear funk (that’s the goal, if you’ll remember). Simply stick the steam cleaning wand in your stinky shoes for about 20 seconds each, and then that’s it! Just make sure that you allow your salsa dancing shoes an ample amount of time to really dry out, or else you’ll actually just be feeding more moisture to any bacteria that might have survived the hot steam blast– in turn perpetuating the funk and making your pungent peds smell even worse! So, steam clean first, but then allow it all to dry– as in, overnight, if you really need to. Only dry shoes, please and thank you!
Soap in the sole doesn’t sound like it should work super amazingly, but you’ve just got to trust me when I say that it absolutely does. Or, barring that (pun totally intended there), simply go on and try this easy stinky shoe hack out for your own fine (if slightly funky) self! The soap is able to burst apart the fatty defensive membrane surrounding each lil’ stinky bacterium and without that, they’ll definitely be less able to stink up your poor pungent peds. All it takes to make your stinky dancing shoes smell better is a dry stick of bar soap stuck straight on into each of the smell shoes in question, and then you’ll be wanting to leave the dry bars of soap inside of your smelly salsa dancing shoes for at least overnight, although going for longer totally isn’t a bad idea, especially if you want to make sure that you’ve finally gotten rid of the sorry stank for good.
Vinegar is the next fabulous and super easy shoe deodorizer we’ve got for all of y’all to try on out, and it totally couldn’t be much easier. Vinegar, you see, has a sort of natural acidity. While merely tangy and sour for us, this acidity from the vinegar isn’t all that great for the stank-producing bacteria, and what’s not great for them is totes great for our poor used and abused nose hairs. It’s incredibly easy to get rid of bad smells in your shoes when you go on and get cotton pads or rounds, soak them in the vinegar of your choice, and then leave the cotton pads inside of your shoes for at least overnight or even longer if you can manage to not go out dancing for that long of a time (it’ll be difficult of course, but I believe in you!).
Freezers are fabulous for fixing foot funk, and it’s not just because this easy shoe deodorizing hack is simple, but also because it’s fabulously effective. For real, your salsa dancing shoes will totally smell better with literally the same amount of effort it takes to grab your fave quart of Ben and Jerry’s. Freezing your smelly salsa dancing shoes might seem like a bit of an odd ask, but it all works because of how the low temperatures in the freezer lower the smelly bacteria’s ability to produce the dreaded dank stank. The terribly stinky bacteria don’t like the cold, and whatever they don’t like, we love! So go on and stick your funky footwear into a ziplock bag or even just a pillowcase (whatever you’ve got on hand that can help keep your ice cream separate from your smelly shoes) and then stick those stinky dancing shoes of yours straight on into the freezer for at least overnight, or for longer if you want to make sure that the old cheese smell won’t be making any kind of stinky comeback!
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is our fifth super shoe deodorization hack. For real, THIS is how to prevent stinky shoes before they start! Dash just a lil’ bit of this stuff straight on into your stinky salsa dancing shoes, and that’s all you need before dancing to your heart’s content!
Salsa dance sans shoe stink! Any or even a combination of these easy shoe deodorization hacks can totally work to help make you smell more fresh and fabulous than ever!
]]>Like, even running shoes ain’t going to cut it! The mesh, heels, and squishy lil’ midsole can make badminton quickly become a bad idea. Stick to the real badminton shoes, I suppose.
Not that I ever knI remember hundreds of (REALLY) low-stake badminton games my sister and I used to play during the summer in our backyard. It didn’t matter that neither of us knew exactly what we were doing—in my more frustrated five-year-old moments, badminton became dodgeball as I decided to simply chuck the birdie over the net (accompanied by my rather shrill screams that my sister had cheated– whether she did or not is lost to history, of course).
But whether or not you're a pro or an amateur badminton player, the sport does come with some downsides (beyond the potentially screaming opponent, that is). Smelly badminton shoes can be a real problem if you don't know how to deodorize stinky shoes in the first place, but don’t you worry!
These next five following super quick and easy shoe deodorizing hacks ought to do the trick before your next game!
So how can simply airing out your stinky badminton shoes help you to deodorize them? And sunshine? What, are we trying to help our funky footwear get a solid tan before you go on to crush it on the badminton court?
Nah, but trust me when I say that airing out your smelly shoes in some sunshine is a perfectly good way to get rid of all kinds of stubbornly smelly shoes (and it’s easy to boot!).
All of it comes down to some pretty rad science. Well, the science is actually just a bit rank, which is why we’re chit-chatting about it– “it” being the stink from your shoes. So, it turns out that it’s not actually your own two feet and shoes that are the cause of all of that footwear funk! It’s all actually the fault of some bacteria that lurk in your shoes and on your skin, eating up any leftover moisture from your sweat and also the dead skin cells that just naturally slough off of your feet; this bacteria in turn produces the pungent punch that we’re all rather familiar with, unfortunately enough.
As a result of all of this, airing out your shoes with a whole lot of sunshine is going to actually be a HUGE help in finally getting rid of the smelly shoes’ stank for good. The sun will help to evaporate moisture from any leftover sweat hanging out in your (hopefully soon-to-not-be smelly) badminton shoes, and all of that fresh air ain’t going to be doing any favors for that stank-producing bacteria either.
Simply store your stinky badminton shoes outside where they can get a whole lot of said sunshine and airflow, although if storing your shoes outside simply isn’t an option for you and your pungent peds (winter is still totally a thing, after all), then you can also totally feel free to just store your fabulous (if still a bit funky) footwear in a sunny spot inside of your home (perhaps near a window) and where said stinky shoes will have just a lil’ bit of airflow (ie near an air vent, or just open the aforementioned window, if at all possible).
Next up we’ve got newspaper– oh, is that *news* for you? Have you never thought to try out newspaper as an easy badminton shoe deodorizing hack? Ah, well neither had I, that is until I learned that newspaper just so happens to be one of the best and most effective shoe deodorizing tips out there for shoes that just won’t stop smelling like an old dumpster fire no matter what you do.
So newspaper– who’d have ever thought that the morning rag could actually help us to fix funky footwear in almost no time flat? It all comes down to a really cool glaze that many printers paint over the newspaper– this glaze, sometimes known simply as “sizing” basically absorbs water and then holds onto it (just like a wee sponge), protecting the ink printed on the newspaper underneath.
In essence, “sizing” helps us to actually have a readable newspaper in the morning, otherwise dew, snow, and other such condensation would make it so that our daily rag looks closer to a tie-dyed t-shirt every time it rains or something.
This all helps us out with deodorizing stinky shoes because moisture in your shoes leftover from the sweat (AKA one of the stank-producing bacteria’s favorite meals) can just be absorbed by that sizing-coated newspaper, preventing the dreaded footwear funk!
So the first thing that you’ve got to do is find yourself some newspaper– now, I know that this actually might be the hardest part of this quick and easy shoe deodorization hack. I mean, I know that even though I still read the news it’s all in an online format. BUT perhaps you have a kindly neighbor who has a paper newspaper subscription, and perhaps if you ask really rather nicely, that nice neighbor of yours will offer you their leftover paper newspaper for you to use in conquering the musty mayhem that is your shoes. IDK maybe bake them some cookies or brownies? It’s not like their leftover newspaper would go anywhere else but the recycling or something, am I right?
Once you get your hands on some newspaper, all you have to do is roll it up into some balls and then stuff it all straight on into those smelly badminton shoes of yours. Make sure that you go on and leave the rolled-up newspaper inside of the stinky shoes for at least overnight, although longer would certainly help to keep the stink away.
So let’s talk about baking soda– yes, I am perfectly aware that baking soda is a solid ingredient in the kitchen BUT trust me when I say that this stuff is also absolutely incredible in deodorizing stinky shoes on top of it all.
I mean yes, you can totally use baking soda to make all of your beautifully baked goods rise to utter perfection, help give pretzels their perfect golden sheen, and even help to make your fried chicken have that utterly delectable crispy crunch (just add a dash into the flour dredge and you’ll be golden). Yeah, baking soda can literally work magic in your kitchen, that’s totes not up for any kind of debate.
But baking soda can also absolutely work magic for you and your stinky badminton shoes as well! You see, baking soda is capable of absorbing moisture really (like actually super) well. No moisture from your sweat, as we all know, means that the stinky bacteria will have to look elsewhere for the all-you-can-eat buffet they currently have access to in your pungent peds.
Fix your funky footwear for good and deodorize smelly badminton shoes permanently with this quick shoe deodorizing hack. All you have to do is get yourself a couple of tablespoons of baking soda and dash it all right on into the stinky shoes that you’re hoping to help smell better. Now, if you’re worried about an easy cleanup for later (and for sure, who wouldn’t be?) then you can absolutely just put the same amount of baking soda into a sock, and then tie it off securely with a rubber band or something like that. Either way, you decide to go for, make sure that you’re leaving the baking soda inside of your stinky badminton shoes for at least overnight, although I would def go for longer if time allows, all so that the baking soda can have the time it needs to properly work its smelly shoe deodorizing magic.
Have you perhaps cooked with cedar wood chips before? I’ll admit that I myself was rather flabbergasted the first time that I saw “cedar plank” on the list of ingredients to prepare before cooking a maple and chili pepper-flavored filet of salmon.
I began to imagine what the heck a recipe might instruct its chef to do with a literal plank of wood. Not immediately supposing that said plank of cedar wood might be for roasting the salmon, I thought that perhaps shavings of it were supposed to go into the sauce or something– for extra fiber, I suppose?
While you might not regularly eat cedar wood chips (even if they are smack-dab in the middle of the rest of the ingredients for a recipe), many chefs do tend to love using cedar wood chips for roasting and flavoring the meat they’re preparing. I mean, what can we say? Cedar-flavored BBQ is pretty amazing, and there’s no question about any of that.
Now, we’re certainly not planning on roasting our rank runners anytime soon (unless, of course, you want to set them on fire because of how stinky they are), but that totally doesn’t mean that we can’t chit-chat about how to use cedar wood chips to deodorize those smelly badminton shoes of yours! Start out by filling up your funky footwear with enough cedar wood chips to completely cover the floor of the shoe (especially making sure that the cedar wood chips are in direct contact with the spot where your sweaty feet go). You could absolutely put the same amount of cedar wood chips into a securely tied-off sock if you’re worried about a supes easy cleanup for your future self, or just splinters for your poor (if perhaps a bit pungent) peds, and then stuff one cedar-stuffed sock into each of the stinky shoes. Either method will totally work just fine, as long as you make sure that you’re letting the cedar wood chips hang out inside of your smelly badminton shoes overnight, although leaving the wood chips in there for at least a few more hours (or days!), if you can, will for sure leave you and your shoes smelling like some kind of magical enchanted forest.
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is our fifth option for deodorizing your favorite (but sadly) set of funky footwear! Fix stinky badminton shoes easily and in no time at all with this spectacularly fabulous shoe deodorizing spray and do it all in literally less time than it takes for you to lose the badminton birdie to the depths of surrounding brush in an amateur round (so basically in a few seconds flat if you’re anything like me– if you know then… well, welcome to the club, I suppose). In all seriousness, LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is totally one of the easiest stinky shoe deodorizing hacks and also one of the most successful as well.
Now, if you don’t want to believe just lil’ old me, then you can totally go on and check out the over 800 reviewers who gave LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer an utterly perfect 5-star review, averaging out to a solid 4.4 stars overall for the product. Amazon reviewer “akdnlavin” here says that LUMI is the “best odor eater for athletic feet” and that as a stinky shoe spray it’s way better than any sort of powder or insole that might interfere with an athlete playing their best game:
LUMI also just so happens to be a pretty rad company themselves. They’re a small, family-owned business that makes sure to source only the highest quality of all-natural ingredients for their products, never ever (then times a gazillion million evers) test on animals, and they also make everything in the United States. For real, it’s ok if you want to go find yourself the nearest large choir and glitter cannon, because they really are in fact that cool.
All you need to fix smelly badminton shoes ASAP is a spritz or two of LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer. Just spray it right on into your funky footwear and that’s really all you’re going to need! Literally just spritz LUMI directly into your stinky athletic shoes of yours and then totally feel free to go and absolutely conquer the badminton court!
Now, I know that some of all y’all out there have a nigh-on perfect memory but ya’ see, as for myself, my own memory tends to be closer to that of a goldfish, or perhaps a hamster– I actually think I’m being a wee bit generous here, so maybe let’s just go with half of a hamster. Summaries can totes help out though, so for all of those of us who might need a quick lil’ reminder, let’s just run through all of the easy badminton shoe deodorizing hacks that we’ve been talking about.
Airing out your stinky badminton shoes and storing them outside where they can get plenty of sunshine is simply a really freakin’ good idea. I mean, all of that stank-producing bacteria need the moisture inside of your shoes (after all, a good game of badminton can work up a sweat) and sunshine can help ya’ to dry out your shoes before you have to experience the dank doom of that dreaded footwear funk. Some good airflow can also help to… clear the air, if I were to put it bluntly. I mean really, it’s as simple as that. Basically, your stinky shoes are like wee lil’ plants that just need a good amount of sunshine and air to be happy and not rank. Make sure to store your shoes outside where they can get some of that sunshine and good fresh air, or else just store those stinky badminton shoes of yours inside someplace sunny and where there’s a decent amount of airflow (ie an air vent or a plain ol’ fashioned open window).
Newspaper is another easy way for you to finally fix funky athletic footwear like those bad-smelling badminton shoes of yours. Newspaper is coated in a sort of glaze, if you’ll care to recall, known simply as “sizing,” and it can totally absorb moisture from any leftover sweat hanging out on the inside of your shoes (which is totes number one on the stank-producing bacteria’s list of all-time favorite things to eat). Just roll up some plain ol’ newspaper into balls, and then stuff everything right on into your rank badminton shoes. Leave it be for at least overnight so that the newspaper can really properly (and extra triply) absorb any and all moisture that might be sequestered away inside of your set of (sadly funky– but only for now!) badminton shoes. Leaving the newspaper in there for longer can totally help out as well, if you’d like the newspaper to really be able to pack a pungent punch and stop your shoes from stinking for good.
Baking soda works to deodorize stinky smells that stubbornly just won’t seem to go away. What baking soda is absolutely amazing at, thankfully enough, is absorption of moisture. This basically means that it can totally absorb plenty of the leftover sweat in your stinky shoes that otherwise would have gone on to feed the rank bacteria hanging out in there. All you’ve got to do is stick a couple of tablespoons of baking soda into your funky footwear (or just put the same amount into a securely tied-off sock that you can then stuff into the smelly shoes in question) and then leave everything in there overnight, at the very least (you’ve got to be patient!). If you’ve got any longer, however, leaving the baking soda inside of your pungent peds for some extra time could totally be a game changer when it comes to knowing how to make stinky shoes smell better for good.
Cedar wood chips are next up on our list, and yep they’re natural, yep they’re tasty when used in cooking (summer BBQ cookoffs aren’t all that faroff, my dear, yet funky friends!), and yep you should totally be using cedar wood chips to make your stinky shoes smell better pronto. I mean, who wouldn’t want to smell like a literal magical forest as they beat everyone else out on the badminton court? Your opponents will all obviously be super jelly of not just your athletic prowess but also of your all-natural, woodsy aroma! Without a doubt, cedar wood chips are just kind of magical lil’ things. Stuff your shoes with cedar wood chips ASAP (making sure that the entire floor of the shoe– IOW where your stinky feet regularly sit– is covered by the cedar wood chips) and leave ‘em in there to hang out overnight. Alternatively, stuff a sock with the same amount of cedar wood chips and then just jam all of that into the rank footwear for the same duration. I’d also– just to put it out there– think about maybe leaving the cedar wood chips inside of your smelly badminton shoes a wee bit longer, if you can. The longer the cedar wood chips have to hang out inside of your pungent peds, the better it’ll be for everyone who’s got a functioning schnozz (unless you want to knock out your court enemies with your super foot stank– no judgment here, of course– as that’s a totally valid strategy in the game of war that’s sometimes more gently known as badminton).
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the fifth of our super fabulous and totally easy-peasy badminton shoe deodorizing hacks. LUMI is all-natural and all-fantastic my fine (yet probs a bit funky) friends, and all it takes is a spritz or two of the stuff straight on into your stinky shoes and that’s all you’ve got to do! Save time, sanity, and also your poor nose hairs (very important, that) from the dreaded dank stank coming up from your athletic shoes with LUMI!
Any and all of these smelly shoe deodorizing tricks ought to work just fine for you, and before you know it you and your stinky badminton shoes will totally smell fresh and fabulous!
]]>If you haven’t even heard of pickleball by now, then you’re certainly in for a treat, because it’s truly a rather rad sport for all ages and for folks of all varying abilities. Pickleball is actually rather similar to tennis– a sport that you may or may not already at the very least be somewhat familiar with. There’s a paddle, a net, etc, however, the pickleball court is shorter and slimmer than its tennis counterpart and the pickleball paddle is also just a wee bit more light. Pickleball uses low-bouncing balls as well, so it requires less strength overall to hit over the net.
Basically, pickleball is tennis’s cooler cousin that always seems to know what fashions are in and how to speak like a truly trendy person. Pickleball is like the one friend in the group who is somehow both super savvy but also relatable to all of us average Joes out there. It’s… idk, it’s just more chill, and lots of people love the sport because of it.
But just like tennis, there are a whole ton of things one has to keep in mind before playing. I mean, just like any sport, of course, there’s figuring out where you and your friends can play, the equipment, and then taking care of that equipment. I mean, sweaty pickleball shoes ain’t no joke!
Like, how do you clean pickleball shoes? It’s not like you can go on and just chuck ‘em on into the washing machine with the rest of your sporty gear.
Here are five easy tips that can help. Without a doubt, you’ll be able to make stinky pickleball shoes smell better in no time flat with any of these quick and utterly fabulous tips!
The first item up on our list of easy pickleball shoe deodorization hacks is just about one of the most simple and easy tricks out there– rotation, ma’ dear, yet perhaps a bit dank-smelling readers.
Rotating between sets of individual sets of shoes works to prevent stank for a solidly good reason, too– trust me on this one, alright?
It actually all comes down to just a wee bit of science. You see, it’s actually totally not your feet that are the direct cause of the stink emanating up from your smelly shoes. It’s this stinky bacteria that sadly happens to live on your feet and also in your shoes and socks. Said smelly bacteria absolutely loves to chow down on the moisture from any leftover sweat hanging out in your shoes and also on any dead skin cells that just sort of naturally slough off– all of this, actually, is totes natural, and absolutely nothing that you should be ashamed of. Literally every single human being ever could get stinky feet for the exact same reason, got it?
But we’d still like to try and make those stinky pickleball shoes smell a bit better; we’ve got to try and save ‘em from olfactory oblivion if we can, of course. Rotation works really well here because by giving time between wears for our shoes to dry out, we’re essentially going to be depriving that smelly bacteria of one of its primary sources of food– the moisture from any leftover sweat, that is. Less sweat will mean less happy bacteria that will go on to stink up your poor pungent peds.
Try to make sure that you use at least two different pairs of pickleball shoes, and just alternate between wears so as to really give each set of shoes a chance to properly dry out, and then that’s it! You should be all good to go and play a good (hopefully stink-free) game on the court.
Newspaper is the second of our extra fabulous shoe deodorization hacks, and yes it sounds crazy, but also yes, it works and works well.
It’s also really rather easy to get rid of bad smells with newspaper because of a little thing known as “sizing.” This “sizing” is essentially a glaze, you see, that many printers use for newspapers in order to prevent any kind of water damage.
Without this glaze, your morning newspaper might totally be unreadable thanks to whatever rain or snow happened overnight. Seriously, said newspaper would look like someone had just gone wild with the tie-dye, and then how the freakin’ heck would we read our weekly comics!?
The “sizing” glaze also really works well for fixing funky footwear (and for good!) because it’s able to absorb basically any and all sorts of moisture (including any leftover sweat just hanging out inside of your smelly shoes). This means that the stank-producing bacteria won’t be able to have its favorite lil’ snack and thus won’t be as capable of stinking up those pickleball shoes of yours.
All you need to make stinky shoes smell better after working out is a couple of balls of newspaper rolled up and then stuffed straight on into the shoes you’re hoping to deodorize. Make sure that you leave the rolled-up newspaper in there for at least overnight, although going for any longer could certainly help to really absorb any excess moisture that the stinky bacteria in your shoes would have otherwise eaten and made into not-so-fabulous footwear funk.
Soap? Now, I know what you’re thinking– how basic are we going to get?! Very, very basic, my pungent pickleball-playing fiends, because placing soap in the soles of stinky shoes is actually a terrific and super easy trick to make bad smells stay away permanently.
You see, when you wash your hands with some plain ol’ soap and water, the water on its own acts as a meager mechanical force– a sort of “shove” for dirt and grime that might be on your skin, if you will. Soap, on the other hand (well, one would hope that soap is on both of your hands, as opposed to just the “other hand” if you’re washing them) helps to burst apart bacteria’s wee outer protective layer. Plenty of bacteria, it would seem, have a sort of fatty membrane that normally help to protect said bacteria from outside effects.
Now, it’s not as if we’re trying to get rid of a certain type of stinky bacteria, am I right? Oh wait, yes we are, and all of this is perhaps why ya’ ought to be considering soap as a swell alternative to fighting your smelly shoes’ stank.
One can easily fix funky footwear for good with just a dry bar of soap, if you can believe it. All you need to do in order to make smelly shoes smell better after pickleball is to just stick one, dry bar of soap (there’s no need for suds) inside of each shoe, and then you’ll leave that soap in there for at least overnight. Longer won’t hurt the shoes (I can pinkie-promise you), and those few extra hours can really help to ensure that the pungent punch of those smelly shoes of yours won’t be making a comeback– on the pickleball court or in your shoe closet.
Ah, essential oils– the much-loved trend that rocked the world before the word “pickleball” was perhaps even a thing. Essential oils are *essentially* (if you’ll pardon the pun) just minuscule bits of plants that have been suspended in a carrier oil. Think about essential oils as you would pickle juice– essential oils might smell a wee bit better than the tangy vinegar, of course, but the idea is almost the same.
The big difference between plain ‘ol plebeian pickle juice and essential oils (beyond one being an extra amazing snack and the other being slightly less delicious) is that essential oils smell extra fabulous– this smell, you see, is just like the bits of the kind of plant that’s been suspended in the carrier oil. Do you want your shoes to smell like peppermint? Go on and get yourself some peppermint essential oil. How about lavender? Or vanilla? For real, trust me when I say that there’s a variety of essential oil for literally all of your fave scents.
And essential oils absolutely rock for getting rid of even worse odors. I mean, what would you rather have: stinky pickleball shoes or the scent of the essential oil of your choice? That’s a one-answer kind of question, I believe. As for me, myself, and I, I’ll for sure be going with the essential oils, because pickleball is great and all, but the sweaty shoe stank just isn’t the best, am I right?
All you need in order to use essential oils to fix smelly pickleball shoes are a couple of cotton pads or rounds and also your favorite essential oil of choice (vanilla, citrus, lavender, etc. all tend to be rather popular if you need suggestions on where to start). Simply put a few drops of your selected essential oil on the cotton pads, and then stuff it all into your funky footwear. Leave everything to hang out in there overnight, or go for a bit longer if time isn’t a huge constraint for you. The longer the essential oils are in your pickleball shoes, the less stinky they’ll be!
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is our fifth fabulous stinky shoe hack for all y’all out there, and let me be the first to tell ya’ that it truly could not be any more simple. LUMI is a high-quality and all-natural shoe deodorizing spray that’ll take your stinky pickleball shoes and make them smell practically better than new.
And if you don’t want to take just my word for it, go on and feel free to listen to any and all of the over 1000 reviewers over on Amazon who gave LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer an utterly perfect 5-star rating, averaging out to a solid 4.4 stars overall. This here Amazon reviewer says that LUMI has been a total game-changer for their whole family and their athletic gear:
LUMI also just so happens to be a rather fabulous company themselves. As aforementioned, their products are all-natural and they source the highest quality of ingredients to make ‘em. LUMI is a small, family-owned business that never ever (ever, ever, and also ever) tests on animals, and they also just so happen to make all of their products in the US. Yes, go on and feel free to cue all of the glitter cannons and confetti, you have my express permission and behest to do so– you know what, while you’re at it, go on and get a choir too, because truly, they are in fact that rad.
Then ANOTHER think that’s pretty rad about LUMI– it can deodorize other things too! Got a stinky kitchen sink? LUMI. An old garbage bin that’s way too funky for you? It is, once again, a solid opportunity to bust out LUMI. How about an old gym bag that you keep stuffing old workout gear (like your stinky pickleball shoes) into? Yeah, LUMI can totes be the stinky salvation for literally all of those! You’re welcome, ma’ dear (if a bit dank-smelling) readers!
All you need in order to fix smelly pickleball shoes for good is a quick spray or two of LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer directly into each shoe and that’s all! You’re totally set to go and conquer the pickleball court without having to worry one bit about that oh-so terrible shoe stank!
But how about a quick little summary of all that we’ve been going on about? I don't know about all y’all, but yours truly could do with a summary of just about everything– for real, I’d forget my own birthday if Facebook didn’t have the helpful lil’ reminder for it. SO let’s run through everything we need to know in order to fix stinky pickleball shoes, shall we?
Rotation is an easy-peasy shoe deodorization hack that only involves having at least two sets of shoes and a lil’ bit of determination to finally see (or perhaps smell) your pickleball shoes at their best selves. See, rotation is a really swell way to fix that funky footwear of yours ASAP and with literally almost no effort at all on your part. When you give one set of shoes a chance to breathe between your pickleball wins you’ll basically be giving said shoes a solid chance to dry out. I mean, being so fabulous on the court is totally going to work up a pretty good sweat (way to go!), so we want to make sure that we have a chance to get rid of any excess moisture before the moisture-loving stinky bacteria can! In essence, less moisture in your shoes is going to mean less stinky shoes. Just make sure to go on and rotate between at least two different sets of shoes when you play pickleball, or even a couple of more if you feel like showing off your varied sense of fashion alongside your fantastic pickleball skills.
Newspaper takes on the terrible stank wafting up from your fave set of pickleball shoes– I mean, rotation is great and all, but having multiple sets of the same sort of shoe can be a bit rough on the wallet and also just the closet space, of course. For sure, knowing how to use newspaper to deodorize smelly shoes can save you both money and sanity, since you might already have some old newspaper hanging around (or you can simply borrow some from an old-school neighbor who hasn’t switched to reading their news online just quite yet and still has a paper newspaper subscription). It all works because newspaper, wildly enough, is coated with this pretty rad glaze known plainly as “glazing,” which can absorb water directly out of sweaty shoes, and can as a result deprive the sweat-loving bacteria (which are the prime instigators of funky footwear) of one of their fave sources of food (that’s the foot sweat, as a quick reminder). Just roll up the newspaper into balls and then stuff everything into the stinky set of pickleball shoes. You’re going to want to leave the newspaper in there overnight, at the very least. You can absolutely go for longer, though– that is, if you think you can take the time off the pickleball court to do so.
Sticking soap in the sole of your stinky shoes is another way to go when it comes to easy shoe deodorizing hacks for those pickleball shoes of yours. Yes, yes, we all know soap and water are rather fabulous for keeping your hands and the rest of your lovely self clean, but it also turns out that just a plain ol’ dry bar of soap is all you need to stick it to the shoe stank– no matter how solidly stuck it may seem. While water is a swell mechanical force (AKA a basic shove for the dirt and grime off of one’s skin), soap on the other hand is specifically able to burst apart the protective, fatty membrane surrounding the stank-producing bacteria– so basically, soap is a stench savior for anybody out there with any kind of functioning sense of smell, if that makes sense. Use soap to deodorize stinky shoes easily by sticking one bar of dry soap right on into those smelly pickleball shoes of yours, and make sure to leave the soap in there for at least overnight, or longer, because the more time the soap has to work its shoe stank-busting magic the better it’ll be for our poor, suffering nose hairs (those that remain, that is, after having smelly shoes for this long).
Essential oils are a rather fabulous (and also super easy) shoe deodorizing hack, and we (and our poor sense of smell) couldn’t be more glad. So these essential oils are basically just bits of plant matter someone had the genius idea to suspend in a sort of carrier oil, which makes the amazing smell of the aforementioned plant matter stretch that much further. All it really takes to deodorize those smelly pickleball shoes of yours is a couple of drops of your favorite scent of essential oil (you can go on and try out lavender, citrus, vanilla, and the like if you’re not precisely positive as to where to start) on some cotton pads or rounds. Make sure to leave the essential oil-soaked cotton inside of your funky footwear for at least one night, although going for any longer certainly won’t hurt anything. It’s natural and it’s fabulous. Ya’ just got to love how your shoes can smell like literally anything other than the grimy old sweat from your last sesh on the pickleball court. One little bottle of essential oil will also last ya’ a pretty long time, as all you need is a couple of drops every so often. Feel free to rotate between scents as well if you can’t seem to settle on one scent in particular.
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the last stinky shoe trick that can and totally will take your funky footwear from smelling like some way too old (and suspectedly radioactive) cheese to smelling utterly fabulous. All you need is a spritz or two of LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer directly into those stinky pickleball shoes of yours, and you’ll be all set to go! That’s literally it! And one bottle of LUMI will last you for a good while, if you’re worried about that. It’s one of the best ways to completely get rid of smelly shoes– with LUMI, there aren’t any if’s, and’s, or maybe’s when it comes to finally fixing your funky footwear for good!
And there you have it, ma’ dear pickleball powerhouse! Pickleball might be a fairly new sport, but that stinky shoe smell sure isn’t; I’m sure we’ve all had to suffer through what we thought was the final dank doom of our poor pungent peds, but playing your new fave sport shouldn’t have to come at the expense of your sense of smell or dignity. Just trust me and make sure to go on and try at least one of these stinky shoe deodorization hacks, or if you’d like, perhaps try out two or three of them in a combination for an easy way to make your shoes smell better super quickly and also totally effectively.
]]>But like apparently ballroom dancing is an actual thing, and people totally put a whole lot of work into getting good at it! It’s literally so impressive how artistic a sport this is. Trust me when I say that the people who do this thing are not only phenomenal athletes but also truly engaged artists– and this includes the amateurs too, ya’ know! Those peeps love what they do and we love to see it!
There’s totally way more to ballroom dancing than sweeping, majestic music in a Disney movie (even if that soundtrack includes a magical singing teapot). A whole lot of effort goes into making all of the hard work going into the performance look easy.
Just think about all of the training that goes into it, for one. All of those classes and also the hours of outside practice. And that’s besides figuring out all of the equipment and the shoes!
Too-loose shoes might make it easier to mess up while dancing–or even sprain something– not for the win! Well-fitting shoes are though (for the win, that is), and they’re usually a classy suede or leather with a thin, twoish-inch high heel.
Sound familiar? How about cleaning said shoes?! Yeah, figuring out how to make ballroom dancing shoes smell better is totally tough. It’s not like you can just stick the leather or suede in the washing machine. It’s quite the pungent problem, if you will.
But not with any of these following 5 easy ways to deodorize stinky shoes! Read on for fabulously quick tricks for fixing stinky ballroom dance shoes.
Yes, yes, I know very well that clean socks may seem like an obvs. option for avoiding olfactory oblivion, but do ya’ know why?
Well, ma’ dear yet slightly smelly reader, the reason for your stinky ballroom shoes absolutely is NOT you or the shoes themselves. It’s stinky bacteria that just so happens to live on your feet and inside of your dank-smelling dance shoes– said stinky bacteria just so happens to love to feed off of the moisture from the sweat on your feet and also off of any of the dead skin cells which naturally sort of slough off of your skin on a rather regular basis. Yum, right? At least for the stinky bacteria. Hey, I won’t judge– I just won’t be giving up my own personal preference for a solid ham and cheese sammie for lunch, alright?
Anyway, stinky bacteria is what’s been stinking up your beloved ballroom dancing shoes, meaning that it can be helpful to keep the smelly lil’ buggers in mind when figuring out how to make your stinky shoes smell better permanently.
Clean socks, you see, won’t be the perfect buffet of every smelly individual bacterium’s dreams. Sweat? Hmmph, already been washed out. Dead skin cells? Not here, ma’ hopefully soon-to-not-be funky friend! Yeah, wearing clean socks is great for you and everyone around you who still has got a functioning schnozz (RIP to the fallen nose hairs of dancing days past), if not so great for the smelly bacteria.
So just always make sure that you’re wearing a good, clean set of fresh socks whenever you’ve got your ballroom dancing shoes on, and you should be all set to go without any worries about those wack wafts emanating up from your (formally) smelly court shoes.
Corn starch is what we have up next for all y’all, and it’s something that you likely already have stored somewhere in the dusty back of your pantry– that is, unless you use this stuff all the freakin’ time while cooking or baking in the kitchen. That’s right, ma’ fine (yet frightfully funky) friends, it’s corn starch!
Corn starch is a star of an ingredient in the kitchen, and totally a multipurpose item! Do ya’ want properly thickened puddings or pie fillings? Yeah, corn starch can totally do that. How about *extra* crispy fried chicken (who are we kidding, very nearly everybody wants extra crispy fried chicken)? Just dash in a lil’ bit of corn starch into the chicken dredge and you’ll be all set!
Or what about how to make ballroom shoes smell better? Oh yes, corn starch can totally help us out with that. Now, exactly how do you use corn starch to get rid of shoe odor, one might be so bold as to ask? An excellent question, ma’ extra stinky friend.
Corn starch, you see, is really rather excellent at absorbing ten gazillion kinds of liquid– including the moisture from any leftover sweat remaining in your well-loved (yet probs just a bit stinky) set of ballroom dancing shoes. And do you remember how the stank-producing bacteria lurking in your smelly shoes like to chow down on all of that leftover moisture from the sweat? Yep, so if we get rid of one of the stinky bacteria’s primary sources of food (once again: moisture from sweat that’s about to get absorbed by the corn starch), then said smelly bacteria won’t be as capable of making your poor shoes so stinky!
So get yourself a couple of tablespoons of corn starch and dash it all right on into your stinky ballroom dancing shoes. Alternatively, if you’re worried about an easier cleanup for your future self (a perfectly valid concern, of course), then you can totally feel free to just put the same amount of corn starch into a sock, and then tie it all off securely with a rubber band or something. For whatever method you opt to go for, just make sure that you go on to leave the corn starch inside of your smelly shoes at least overnight, or for even longer if you think you can spare your (hopefully soon-to-not-be) smelly ballroom dancing shoes for that long.
Don’t leave the pantry just yet, because beyond corn starch being able to bust bad smells wafting up from those stinky ballroom dancing shoes of yours, your kitchen supply stash has yet more to yield in terms of stench saviors for our funky footwear. Look to your seasoning cabinet and go on and grab some plain ‘ol table salt to use for deodorizing stubborn shoe stank.
Yes, yes, I mean plain, good ‘ol fashioned table salt. We’re talking about the kind of stuff you use to season underwhelming casseroles, soups, and the like (don’t tell the chef). It’s what the doctor tells us that we all probably need a lil’ less of in our diets (but has said doctor even tried to eat old leftover fries without an extra dusting of salt? Not great, underwhelming, and a total waste of calories). Table salt is solidly for the win when it comes to a solid flavor profile, even if it’s not great to eat huge quanities of.
So how do you use table salt to fix stinky shoes? Ah, well that ma’ marvelously mephitic master of the ballroom, is a matter of how amazing table salt is at absorbing moisture. Comparable to corn starch, table salt literally is able to absorb most types of moisture just like it’s some sort of magic sponge, leaving the sweat-hungry stinky bacteria bereft of the regular all-you-can-eat buffet that they’ve gotten used to after all of your dancing practices.
First, go get yourself the cheapest table salt you’ve got stocked in the dusty back shelf of your kitchen pantry (I mean, you can totes feel free to go on and use your fancy pink salt, or whatever you have, but that stuff is way too good and also kind of expensive to use for stinky shoe deodorization, even if they are one of your fave sets of shoes– at least in my humble opinion). Scoop in a couple of tablespoons of said table salt into the smelly ballroom dancing shoes in question (or just as with the corn starch, you can put the same amount of table salt into a sock that you’ve securely tied off and then stuff that sock into the shoe you’re hoping to deodorize), then all you have to do is leave that table salt inside of your funky footwear for at least overnight (sweet dreams and then sweet-smelling shoes in the morning– or at the very least… savory and salty smelling shoes?).
Leave the table salt in for much longer if you can, just so that we really absorb all of that excess moisture just hanging out in your smelly shoes. Once the table salt starts to clump up you’ll know that it's absorbed all of the sweat that it’s going to, and then you can go on and replace it with some more salt, should you so choose.
Want another easy ballroom shoe deodorizing hack from your kitchen pantry? Seriously, all y’all probably already have this next stinky shoe trick already hanging out somewhere in the dusty back of the larder, ready and all set to go whenever you want to finally take on the super rank stank wafting up from your poor pungent peds.
White vinegar ma’ funky friends– it’s that tangy stuff we use to dye Easter eggs, the base of many a great salad dressing, etc. etc. White vinegar admittedly possesses its own rather sour scent, that’s for sure, BUT I think we can all come together and agree that white vinegar is a whole heck of a lot better than the rank (and quite possibly radioactive) old cheese smell that presently describes what your ballroom dancing shoes smell like.
You can use white vinegar to make stinky shoes smell better all because of that aforementioned sour scent– it’s SUPER acidic, and the rank bacteria that have been creating musty mayhem in your dance shoes just don’t do that level of acidity. So, sour vinegar and stinky bacteria basically just don’t mix, ya’ know? All of this means that we LOVE any and all of the acidity that vinegar can bring to the table– and to our smelly shoes!
And you absolutely don’t need to just stick to white vinegar– whatever kind of vinegar you happen to have on hand ought to work just fine. I mean, I’d probs recommend not using your uber expensive, fancy-shmancy balsamic stuff (I mean, do what you want, of course, but I’d personally save that for a really fabulous salad dressing or perhaps a perfectly solid pasta dish). White vinegar usually just so happens to be what’s cheapest and/or already hanging out in the pantry, so honestly if I were you I would just go for that since it seems most simple.
And speaking of simple, it couldn’t be more simple learning how to use white vinegar to clean ballroom dancing shoes that smell like– well, they probably smell like you’ve been having a heck of a lot of fun dancing in them.
We’ll be going for a DIY spa adventure with this easy stinky shoe deodorization hack of ours, as we chat about how to make ourselves a quick lil’ white vinegar foot soak for you and funky feet (and also for the sake of all functioning nose hairs within the immediate area).
Go on and get yourself a small tub that you can soak your feet in (or totes feel free to just use a bathtub if you’d like to), then fill it with one part white vinegar and two parts white vinegar (hot or cold water won’t make too much of a difference in terms of how well this foot soak will work, so just go for whatever temp. is most comfortable for you). Let your stinky feet soak for just about 30 minutes, then rinse everything off, and go on and moisturize because you totally deserve a deodorization hack that’s not only easy and effective, but also decadent!
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the fifth fabulous option for easy and speedy shoe deodorization for you and those stinky ballroom dancing shoes of yours. LUMI is an all-natural, easy-to-use, and successful shoe spray for you and your funky footwear.
And ya’ don’t just have to take my word for it! Go on and take the word of the over 10,000 reviewers over on Amazon who gave LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer a fully perfect 5-star review, averaging out to a solid overall rating of 4.4-stars. Amazon reviewer Denise Salazar here says that it’s an absolute MUST for her girls’ stinky dance shoes and bags:
LUMI also just so happens to be an actually fabulous company on their own. LUMI is a small, family-owned business that never ever tests on animals (heck to the freakin’ yeah), only sources the highest of all-natural ingredients for each of their products, and they also make all of those products in the United States.
All you need to fix stinky shoe odor for good is one or two spritzes of LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer and that’s that! Yes you may absolutely feel free to lug out the glitter cannon and confetti now, because it’s for sure time to celebrate, now you’re all set to go and dance out your dreams in your so-fresh-they’re-almost-like-new ballroom dancing shoes.
I don’t know about all y’all, but I think that some sort of summary of these stinky shoe hacks is in order. I personally have the memory of half a hamster (a goldfish on my more astute days), and so such summaries tend to majorly help me to remember the major points.
Clean socks are first up on our list of easy ways to fix stinky court shoes, and ma’ dear (and perhaps a bit dank-smelling) readers, it truly is a quick and easy fix for taking on your funky footwear. If you may or may not care to recall, all of the sorry stank emanating up from those smelly ballroom dance shoes of yours is caused by bad-smelling bacteria lurking about in your shoes, on your feet, and yep your socks as well. Said stinky bacteria in your shoes just love to chow down on dead skin cells and moisture from your sweat (both of which can be found in plentiful abundance in your socks and shoes). So, your feet and shoes are basically a gourmet meal for the lil’ stinky suckers– quite tragic, I know. BUT with clean socks, all of that bacteria won’t have much to chow down on (and I’m sure it’s rather difficult to produce that rank old cheese smell in your shoes on an empty stomach). So– you need FRESH and CLEAN socks, ya’ got it? EVERY DARN SINGLE TIME YOUR DANCE, YOU’VE GOT TO WEAR CLEAN SOCKS! Did that make sense? Not “semi-clean” socks. Not “socks that’ll get washed *right after* this last dance practice.” Nope, we’ll be having none of that! Only the freshest and cleanest socks in the land for you and your stinky ballroom dancing shoes, each and every time you take to the floor.
Corn starch is up next on our list of easy tricks and hacks of fixing up those stinky ballroom dancing shoes of yours. It all works because this stuff is utterly FABULOUS at absorbing any and all kinds of moisture. Moisture, if you’ll recall, is item numero uno on the rank bacteria’s list o’ favorite foods to munch on before stinking up your sadly funky footwear. That moisture can usually be found easily enough in a set of shoes that you dance– and sweat– for literally hours in, of course. So, sweaty shoes normally equals stinky shoes– that is, unless you snag something really awesome at absorbing basically all kinds of moisture, like freakin’ CORN STARCH, to give an (absolutely amazing) example. Knowing how to use corn starch as a shoe deodorizer for all of that not-so-rad footwear funk is totes one of the best stinky shoe hacks out there, and it all starts with just a couple of tablespoons of corn starch dusted right on into your stinky set of ballroom dancing shoes. Alternatively, if you’re hoping for an easier future cleanup then you can also totally feel free to put the same amount of corn starch into a sock that you’ve securely tied off before stuffing said corn starch-stuffed sock straight on into the stinky shoes. Leave the corn starch in overnight, or longer if you’d like to make certain that your stinky shoes smell better for good.
Salt can likewise absorb most kinds of moisture, including the sweat that otherwise would have gone on to feed the stank-producing bacteria (totes not for the win). Salt can quickly deodorize stinky shoes by slurping up (just like a wee hoover) the excess sweat hanging out in our funky footwear, and badda-bing-badda-boom, that’s all you need to be smelling fresh and fabulous in no time at all. Put a couple of tablespoons of whatever kind of salt you’d like into your stinky shoes (making sure to evenly coat the floor of the shoe– mostly just make sure to cover where your feet regularly go), or feel free to put the same amount of salt into a tied-off sock. Leave overnight or longer!
A white vinegar foot soak can take on foot funk with its marvelous acidity. So start with a tub filled with one part vinegar and two parts water, then soak your tangy tootsies for at least 30 minutes, rinse off, and feel really fabulous (you already are, of course, but this is just for that *lil* extra).
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is our fifth fantastic shoe deodorizer. All you need to keep your ballroom dancing shoes from smelling bad is a spritz or two of LUMI and you’ll be smelling better than ever in hardly any time at all.
And that’s that! Five easy ways to make those rank ballroom dancing shoes of yours smell better. Go on and create magical dancing moments without smelling a lil’ bit like old microwaved cheese, because deodorizing stinky ballroom shoes is simpler than ever with any of these five options!
]]>Something like that? As aforementioned, it was a lower-level variety of Spanish class where I met my friend, the rugby enthusiast. If you’ve never been in an introductory level of language class, let me tell you all about how we were supposed to do conversation after conversation of basic get-to-know-you type of questions.
They’re literally *so* fun. I mean, I get it, basic conversations are literally one of the very best ways to learn another language, but that doesn’t mean that such practice isn’t supes difficult. Said practice led to my partner informing me all about the great sport of rugby in very… ahem, *rudimentary* Spanish. In addition to that, I also had rather rudimentary Spanish listening skills, meaning that our conversations surrounding the topic in question were unique, to say the least. Translated, they went something like:
“Hi! My name is (very much not) Bob. I like pizza. I have a dog. I play rugby.”
To which I responded, “Hi Bob! I don’t know that word. What is this? Explain, please.”
“Dog? A dog is like a cat, but… not?”
I rolled my eyes. “No, the other word, the… the word that isn’t pizza or dog.”
He rolls his eyes this time. “Bob?”
“No, no– the other-other word?”
*cue the lad trying his best to mime rugby, because he didn’t know how to describe the sport in laymen’s terms in Spanish.
We tried?
Afterward, said rugby friend informed me all about rugby in English, so now I can totally consider myself… Well, not an expert of rugby by any stretch of the term, although I do know that like basically every other set of sport footwear, rugby shoes, as light and durable as they are, can still get smelly.
But don’t you worry yourself about it, though! Here are several easy ways you can take care of rugby cleats and fix that funk before you take on the field!
Now, alright I’m sure you read the title of the subsection here, and thought? Soles? New ones? Dude, I’m trying to fix the stinky rugby cleats that I already have, I don’t want to go on out and get new ones! Yes, yes I hear you and I totally get it! I don’t mean that you have to go on out and get new-new shoes. Really, all you really need to make your rugby cleats smell better is a solid set of new (stank-free) soles! And there’s a totally an amazingly awesome reason for that, I pinkie-promise you.
You see, stinky rugby cleats become stinky not because of your sweaty feet– in actuality, it’s not even your feet that are causing your shoes to stink. Really, it’s this bacteria that just so happens to live on your feet (and also in your shoes, socks, etc.) that produce the terribly dank stank we’re all unfortunately all too familiar with.
Said stinky bacteria feeds off of the moisture from any leftover sweat and also the dead skin cells which just naturally sort of slough off of your feet on a pretty regular basis (none of this is anything to be embarrassed about– it’s all natural, ma’ dear yet dank-smelling reader).
The sole of your smelly rugby cleats is a perfect harbor for this stank-producing bacteria, meaning that a perfect solution for your funky footwear could include taking on those stinky soles. Replacing the sole of shoes that have gotten just a bit too rank (once again, it’s totally natural) can be a really simple and rather effective way to deodorize the whole set of shoes. Small moves for big, great-smelling gains, am I right?!
Rubbing alcohol can absolutely take on the terrible stank that’s wafting up from your poor pungent peds, ma’ dear (if somewhat rank) reader. Yes, yes, rubbing alcohol will pack a pungent enough punch on its own, but that’s sort of why it works, you see.
That sharp scent can and will absolutely be just the thing that’ll be able to finally take down the sharp, old, stinky (and quite possibly radioactive) cheese scent that’s been slowly yet surely taking over your gym bag, your shoe closet, basically everything, am I right?
For the sake of whatever remaining nose hairs you possess (and may their fallen brethren rest in peace), I think you and I both know that it’s time to pull out all of the easy deodorizing hacks and tricks that we’ve got up our proverbial sleeves.
Rubbing alcohol and the stinky bacteria that have been just hanging out in those stinky rugby cleats of yours? Yeah, they ain’t besties. Ya’ can have one or the other when it comes to smelly bacteria and rubbing alcohol, and take one (only your very best, now) guess as to which one we all would rather have.
So it’s totally simple for how to use rubbing alcohol to clean up your stinky rugby cleats. All you need are some cotton pads or rounds, then you’ll get them all soaked in some plain old rubbing alcohol, then you’ll want to just stuff all of those cotton rounds straight on into your smelly rugby cleats and go on and leave them in there for at least overnight, although any longer certainly would go a long way in helping to make sure that the dreaded stank doesn’t make any kind of comeback in your (now hopefully stank-free rugby shoes).
Do all y’all want to know how to steam clean those stinky rugby cleats? Yes– the very simple answer to that there question is an absolute yes, because knowing how to steam clean smelly shoes in order to deodorize ‘em is a stellar bit of information that you really ought to know. Yes, it works– absolutely yes steam cleaning stinky rugby cleats can absolutely work in order to make you and your funky footwear smell like something other than rank old cheese that someone decided to microwave and then abandon to dank desolation.
Steam cleaning your stinky rugby cleats works really well, ya’ see, because the super hot water won’t be doing that smelly bacteria any favors. I mean, (basically) boiled bacteria won’t be producing too many bad smells, I suppose. So, that means that we’re huge fans of steam cleaning! It’s like, our new favorite thing, got it?
I mean, admittedly, you can also for sure just use steam cleaners to get sad lil’ wrinkles out of your clothes but, ma’ dear (yet dank-smelling) reader, you would for sure be missing out on one of the best shoe deodorizing hacks out there. I mean, you can and should totally think of your steam cleaner as your very own magic wand, ya’ hear? I mean it! Go on and bibbity-bobbity-boop the bad smells right on out from your funky footwear!
All you need to fix those stinky rugby cleats of yours is a steam cleaner (duh) and some time. Simply stick the steam cleaner right on into your stinky shoes for just a couple of moments (not too long– it’s just a steam clean, not time to melt anything important in the shoe, got it?)-- go for just about 20-25 seconds. Then after that, you’ll want to make certain that you go on and leave your (hopefully no longer funky) footwear out to dry afterward. This last bit is actually probs like the most important.
Leaving your (now-clean) shoes to properly dry out will ensure that the stank won’t be coming back. If you’ll care to recall, all of the stank-producing bacteria simply love to chow down on moisture (amongst other things), and if there are any survivors after you’ve steam cleaned the shoes (hopefully not many, if any) you don’t want them to have access to any kind of moisture that will help them to make a comeback.
Just make sure that you leave your shoes out to really thoroughly (and I mean it!) dry out before you stick your feet back in, otherwise you’ll be right back at (stinky) square one!
Now, I’m sure you’ve seen all of those terrifically trendy charcoal recipes floating around the internet– I mean, they’re gorgeous. Like charcoal ice cream? Or how about charcoal pie crust? Those things literally look so incredible, but you’re probably more familiar with charcoal as a by-product of your most recent BBQ or s’mores night, am I right?
Charcoal– it’s the crispy edges on all of the very best burgers (and it also makes up the entirety of those burgers that your “grill-master” uncle forgot he had cooking and now someone has to eat the charbroiled pattie– it’s only “caramelization” as he calls it, after all). Charcoal is the crispy bit ensconcing the best kind of gooey marshmallows that you get to squish between the layers of graham crackers and melting chocolate.
Charcoal is basically just superheated carbon– the very solidly burnt bits, if you will. Besides all of those rad, tasty things we just chatted about, charcoal can also totally be used to successfully and easily deodorize stinky shoes in a snap.
Fun lil’ bit of information for all y’all– charcoal can easily be acquired without burning bits of food off the grill. Nowadays, charcoal may be acquired in really rather convenient tablets that you can just get at your local grocery store or Walmart. This stuff is usually just superheated coconut husks, bamboo, and whatnot, and when it gets superheated all of this toasty carbon tends to form these tiny wee pores all across its surface, and that there is how charcoal has the absolutely fabulous ability to absorb any and all kinds of funk, including the kind from your smelly footwear.
For real, you can easily deodorize stinky rugby cleats with just a couple of those charcoal tablets and some time. Spill a few of said tablets into a tiny container, such as a mini envelope, and then just go on and stick those charcoal-filled envelopes straight on into your stinky rugby cleats, leaving for at least overnight, or longer if you can manage it. After a couple of days, depending on how stinky those shoes of yours initially were, you may have to go on and replace the charcoal in order to keep your rugby cleats smelling fresh.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is our fifth option for absolutely easy and super quick ways to deodorize rugby cleats that stink. It’s an all-natural and utterly fabulous funky footwear hack for making sure that smelly shoes are the furthest thing from your mind when you’re on the field. Seriously, prepare to have your pungent peds never be funky again with a quick dash of this stuff!
And you totally don’t just have to take my word for it. LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder literally has over 600 absolutely perfect 5-star reviews over on Amazon, averaging out to a solid 4.6-star rating overall. Amazon reviewer Ari Macisaac over here says that it literally just took one use before they couldn’t detect the dreaded shoe stank anymore. Like, is it magic? They think so:
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is the company’s best product for actually preventing moisture (AKA the stinky bacteria’s fave source of food) in your shoes. LUMI also uses ingredients that are positively fabulous for your skin, such as zinc oxide, kaolin clay, bentonite clay (really, they’ve got all of the great clays), etc.
LUMI also just so happens to be a really rad company themselves. They’re a small family-owned business that (as just mentioned) only use the highest quality of all-natural and great-for-you ingredients in their products, never ever (then ten gazillion types of ever) test on animals, and they also make all of their products in the United States. For real, feel free to go on and grab your glitter cannon and confetti because they really are that fabulous.
All you need in order to clean up those stinky rugby boots of yours is a few dashes of LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder straight on into the smelly shoes themselves, and that’s literally all you’ve got to do! Go on and conquer the field without smelling it up!
But how about a wee summary of all of those super easy and quick shoe deodorization hacks? I don't know about all y’all, but I myself literally have the memory of half a hamster, so I totally love and adore tiny lil’ reminders to condense it all, ya’ know?
New soles are going to be the first of our easy ways to clean stinky rugby cleats, and trust me when I say this quick lil’ trick is literally one of the easiest smelly shoe hacks you can do for your stinky rugby cleats. The stank-producing bacteria that we’ve hamming on and on about just absolutely adores the soles of your poor pungent peds because that’s where a whole lot of the excess moisture from your sweat gets absorbed (it’s practically a wee sponge, if you will). Think of those soles in your smelly shoes as a classic sort of refrigerator (or even an all-you-can-eat buffet) for the rank lil’ suckers. Yeah, it’s totally a bit of a bummer, but hey, at least you don’t have to chuck the whole stinky set of shoes? Seriously, all you have to do is get yourself some solid replacement soles to go into your fave set of (sadly funky) footwear and it'll practically be like a fresh(-smelling) start for you and your (no longer funky) feet! Pretty quick, certainly easy, and it’s a successful stinky shoe hack to boot (to… cleat?).
Rubbing alcohol is up next on our fun lil’ summary of simple, yet spectacularly successful ways to get rid of that stinky shoe smell for good. Rubbing alcohol has a bit of a sharp scent all on its own, I get it, but trust me when I say that rubbing alcohol can and totally will be salvation for the stench that I’m sure we can all agree has quite simply got out of hand when it comes to your smelly athletic shoes. All you need to fix said stinky shoes are some cotton pads or rounds that you’ve gone on and soaked in some regular old rubbing alcohol, then you can just stuff said cotton rounds right on into your smelly rugby cleats. After all of that is said and done you can feel free to leave the cotton rounds just to hang out in your (soon-to-not-be stinky) shoes for at least one night, but if you happen to feel so inclined (and don’t have a rugby practice or game in your immediate future), then you can go on and leave the rubbing alcohol-soaked cotton pads in there for longer in order to really make sure that the rubbing alcohol has got the time to properly get rid of the dreaded shoe stank for good.
Steam cleaning smelly rugby cleats is one of the quickest shoe deodorization hacks out there, and you may or may not already have everything you need for it. For your prerequisites: a steam cleaning wand and time. Yep, two things, and one of them is quite literally metaphysical, so like it doesn’t even really count, right? So, the hot water from the steam cleaner can boil the bad-smelling bacteria, and then you’ll be back to smelling fabulous in no time at all. Simply stick the steam cleaner straight on into your stinky rugby cleats, and leave it in there for just about 20-25 seconds or so (too much longer may or may not melt some of the plastic material inside of your shoes, so just use some common sense, ya’ know?). Afterward, make TRIPLY SURE that you leave your (now fresh and fabulous) shoes out to dry PROPERLY! Did you see all of those caps? That means it’s really, (and I mean) really important! If you stick your feet back on into still-soggy shoes then A) You might get some pretty dreadful blisters from the subsequent chafing (ouch) and B) Be feeding any remaining stinky bacteria all of the nutrients they need to make even more footwear funk, which would totally suck. Don’t let that rank bacteria make even more of that dreaded stank, and leave your shoes to dry out for as long as it takes before wearing them again!
Charcoal envelopes are up next on our list of fabulous ways to beat the footwear funk radiating up from your poor pungent peds. Charcoal, you see, is basically just superheated carbon. This stuff has got pores all along its surface that can absorb any and all kinds of odor (even the weird old cheese smell that you’ve got going on in your stinky athletic shoes that you need to deodorize ASAP). You can clean up stinky rugby cleats quickly and with ten kinds of success by putting charcoal (a couple of tablespoons worth) into an envelope or literally any other small container– just don’t dash the charcoal straight on into your (hopefully soon-to-not-be) smelly shoes, or else you may soon have to worry about stinky rugby cleats that not only smell but are also really terribly stained (totally not for the win, ya’ know?). Regardless, go on and leave the charcoal in there for at least overnight, although longer would be pretty rad if you’d like to truly get rid of the rank stank in your shoes.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is an all-natural and supes high-quality shoe deodorizer. Fix rugby cleats that stink with hardly any effort– seriously, try not to strain yourself over tapping just a bit of LUMI right on into your smelly rugby shoes, because that’s all you’ve got to do with this quick trick! Yep, it’s that easy, and the lack of footwear funk in your stinky shoes is *that* fabulous.
Any of these quick and easy ruby shoe deodorization tips ought to help! Best of luck on the field and also best of luck with making those sweaty shoes smell better!
]]>I mean, jelly shoes can come in almost any color or level of total glitterization (clearly that’s not a word, but I literally have no other idea on how one could possibly describe how gorgeously sparkly little me found those jelly shoes). Those jelly shoes are a veritable, captivating rainbow of choices for any kid to choose from in terms of footwear, that’s for sure.
Whilst most other shoes tended to come in more plain, banal colors (and had far fewer sparkles adhered to ‘em) these jelly shoes presented all kinds of offerings for one to pick over at the shoe store.
I mean, what’s also pretty fabulous about those jelly shoes is that they’re pretty indestructible. Granted, I suppose a fair part of that comes from the soft, squishy plastic that’s their main material, but it’s still pretty rad, I think. Especially when you’re a kid (or a parent of one who doesn’t want to deal with a gazillion sets of shoes for their children), such indestructible qualities tend to be supes helpful. Those jelly shoes can really go through it and still come out looking as trendy and fashion-forward as ever without a single scratch.
But what about shoe stank? Sadly enough, jelly shoes can be just as likely to become a little rank as any other kind of shoe. How is one supposed to clean them, you might ask? While nigh-on indestructible, jelly shoes need a little TLC, just like any of your other footwear, funky or not.
So here are some really quick and easy ways to make your jelly shoes better. Deodorizing hacks that are fairly simple and really work!
We’ll be going over rotating your jelly shoes first. Yep, rotation. You see, rotating your fabulous (if a wee bit funky) footwear actually has a point for fixing the stank– it’s totally not just for giving you a really swell opportunity to show off your varied and fantastic selection of jellies to wear.
You see the success of rotating your shoes actually is all based on the why of your stinky jelly shoes– psst, the bad smell totally isn’t the fault of your actual feet! Your footwear’s funk actually hails from bacteria that just so happen to live on your feet and they’re the ones that produce that (unfortunately) familiar old cheese smell emanating up from your fabulous (and now sadly stinky) shoes.
All of that stank-producing bacteria likes to feed off of the moisture from the sweat on your feet and in your shoes (they just slurp it all down like a milkshake in midsummer) and also off of the dead skins cells that sort of naturally slough off of your feet (moisture+old skin cells= a well-rounded diet for the source of your shoes’ dreadful dank stank).
So rotation is totally an excellent solution to the rather rank smell of your fabulous jelly shoes’. All you have to do for this easy and quick shoe deodorization hack is make sure that you alternate between at least two different sets of shoes in order to avoid making any more smell. Depriving the stank-producing bacteria of their favorite variety of food (AKA the moisture from your sweat and extra dead skin cells on your feet) is sure to set ‘em back on the smell production (which is simply swell for all of those of us with any kind of functioning nose hairs left standing after all of this time spent with stinky shoes).
At least two different sets of jelly shoes to go between is the bare minimum, although you can totally take this opportunity to rotate between a couple of extra sets of shoes in order to work around the smell and the bacteria that make it.
Plain ol’ white vinegar is another super easy and successful shoe deodorization hack to use on your fave set of fabulous (if a bit funky) jelly shoes. Now, I know that you may or may not think that white vinegar is just another old, random thing chilling on a dusty shelf in the back of the kitchen pantry, but trust me when I say this stuff totally is a multipurpose item.
And I’m not just talking about your fourth-grade science fair project– although those volcanoes are totally amazing– shoutout to any people who used vinegar to learn all about them acids and bases (baking soda exploding with vinegar will never not be cool, and that’s a fact). Beyond those rad, foamy volcanoes, however, did all y’all know that vinegar (with its acid-based superpowers) can also take on the super stank wafting up from your utterly fabulous (and literally so close to not being funky) jelly shoes?
Acid (which vinegar is a weakish version of) can totally be a whammy to the whiffy bacteria, and that absolutely ROCKS for all of us who want to fix our stinky shoes ASAP.
Any kind of vinegar will do, btw, although white vinegar tends to be on the cheaper side of things, and you also probs already have a bottle ready and waiting for you and your stinky jelly shoes in the kitchen somewhere. I mean, if you want to use some of your fancy balsamic vinegar, go on and be my guest, but in all honesty, the cheap stuff will totally work just fine for this.
How to deodorize stinky jelly shoes with white vinegar: 101. Listen up, ma’ dear yet stinky reader. All you need is a few cotton pads or rounds that you’ve already soaked with your white vinegar and then you can go on ahead and stuff said white vinegar-soaked cotton rounds straight on into your smelly shoes.
Leave everything in for at least overnight, but if you can manage to part with your jelly shoes for just a bit longer, then all the better so that we can give the white vinegar all of the time it needs to really take care of the dreaded shoe stank.
And as long as we’re on this tangent about making the best 4th-grade science fair volcanoes in the land, we might as well also bring up baking soda as our next of our absolutely fabulous and supes successful hacks for cleaning stinky jelly shoes.
Oh yes, BAKING SODA! It’s actually kind of great at breaking bad smells from your beautiful jelly shoes, beyond all of its more obvious uses. I mean, where would we be without all of baking soda’s utterly fabulous usefulness in helping make our baked goods rise to perfectly lofty heights (I mean, we’d all probably have fewer heavy carbs in our diets, but that is totally beside the point)? Or how about how baking soda can easily make your fried chicken that much more crispy with just a lil’ dash in the floured dredge!? All amazing things for sure, and that’s on top of baking soda being totally able to deodorize those smelly jelly shoes of yours.
Now, exactly how do we use baking soda to clean stinky shoes, one might dare to ask? An excellent question by any account, and there’s a solid reason as to why this stuff works to take the funk out of your absolutely fabulous footwear. You see, baking soda is actually kind of amazing at absorbing any and all kinds of moisture (it just slurps said moisture down like a milkshake and it’s a baking 100 degrees outside). Having the baking soda absorb all of that extra moisture leftover from the sweat on your feet is swell for your stinky shoes because, if you’ll care to recall, the stank-producing bacteria absolutely loves to chow down on that stuff.
So, basically, if there’s a lack of moisture for the smelly bacteria to eat up, then there’s going to be a lack of stank that they’ll be able to produce. All of that is totally swell for us and our (def) soon-to-not-be) stinky shoes!
You can easily use the stuff to deodorize stinky jelly shoes– all it takes to fix stinky shoes with baking soda is a couple of tablespoons dashed right on into your smelly jelly shoes. Alternatively now, if you’re worried about future you having to deal with a slightly difficult clean-up, then you can for sure make it easier to deal with afterward by stuffing a sock with the same amount of baking soda and tying it all off securely with a rubber band or something similar.
Regardless of what you end up deciding on, you’ll want to make sure to keep the baking soda inside of your pungent peds for at least overnight, although having it in there for just a lil’ bit longer can for sure help you to deodorize your stinky shoes extra thoroughly.
Up next we’ve got one of our best easy fixes for smelly jelly shoes, although it might totally just seem like common sense– but isn’t that how it goes for most of the best sort of solutions? Fixing the footwear funk wafting up from your gorgeous shoes shouldn’t have to be mind-bogglingly difficult, right? I mean, being so fabulous all of the time with those stunning jelly shoes of yours is already taxing enough on its own, so why would we want to add anything on top of that?
For real though, storing your stinky shoes somewhere sunny is actually one of the most successful ways to really get rid of the shoe stank for good. Yep, just a tiny lil’ bit of fresh air and sunshine is one of the best and most thorough shoe deodorizers out there– I mean, yeah that makes our stinky shoes sound like plants, but hey don’t bust it ‘til you try it, ya’ know?
It’s all because of that smelly bacteria that we’ve been going on about– it turns out that those stinky suckers just aren’t all about sunshine and fresh air. Think of them as vampires– just don’t go on stuffing garlic into your stinky shoes (unless you want that fun and funky fresh garlic/stinky foot smell combo to become the new scent of your poor pungent peds– and hey, you do you, but I’m just going to go out on a limb and say that *maybe* that’s not precisely what we’re trying to go for here).
Sunshine+fresh air= busted shoe stank. All you have to do is store your stinky shoes somewhere outside where they can get a good amount of sun each day and perhaps even a beautiful breeze gusting by every now and then.
Now, if you don’t have a backyard or if the present weather is just a touch too inclement for ya’ to feel good about keeping your fave set of fabulous (if a bit funky) footwear outside– and I totally can feel ya’ on that one, given the wall of winter-gray clouds presently settling in right outside my window– then you can also just store your smelly jelly shoes inside where there’s just a solid patch of sunlight or at the very least a solid current of fresh air moving over the shoes (ie a window or by an air vent).
Our fifth shoe deodorization hack on our list of super easy ways to fix smelly jelly shoes is LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer. LUMI is an all-natural and all-fabulous shoe spray that can quickly and also effectively take on the terrible stank from your poor pungent peds.
Ok, and you totally don’t just have to take just my word for it– LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer quite literally has over 800 utterly perfect five-star reviews uploaded on Amazon, coming out to a solid 4.4-star rating overall. Amazon reviewer KP here says that LUMI was both quick and simple to use and that the fresh smell also lasts on their kids’ shoes for days!
And on top of all of that, LUMI actually just so happens to be a pretty rad company. As already mentioned, they’re all-natural, but they also only source the highest quality ingredients for their products, never (ever, ever, and yet another ever) test on animals, are a small, family-owned business, and they also make all of their products in the United States. Yeah, you can definitely cue all of the applause and glitter cannons right about now because they truly are that cool.
All it takes for how to fix those stinky jelly shoes of yours is a spritz or two of LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer directly into the soles and that’s it! You’re all ready to go and live your best, fashionable life with the most rad (and totally not rank) shoes out there.
Let’s just try and summarize everything though, shall we? I don’t know about all y’all reading this, but as for me, myself, and I, a summary is one of the best darn things out there, given that I have the memory of half a squirrel (no offense meant to the squirrels of the world of course). So a summary, yes?
Rotation is the name of the game when it comes to taking down the extra funky smell from your stinky jelly shoes. It’s all because of that super stank-producing bacteria that lives on your poor pungent peds and also (sadly enough) in your funky footwear. As we’ve been chit-chatting on about in this here article, said stinky bacteria just goes nuts for the moisture leftover from your sweat and also any dead skin cells that have naturally just sloughed off of your feet– all of this is pretty regular and nothing to be ashamed of, even if it does produce a rank smell that makes it kind of difficult to wear beautiful (if a bit bad-smelling) jelly shoes whenever we would like to. Rotation is an excellent solution to this dank-smelling dilemma, as it gives each set of shoes that you’re rotating between a good chance to just breathe (*great smells in and stinky ones out). The sweat can dry up some, and the smelly bacteria won’t have access to any new sources of food from your feet! So rotate between at least two pairs of shoes, although a couple will give each set of shoes even more time to get stink-free.
How can you use white vinegar to clean stinky jelly shoes, one might be so bold as to ask? Easily– that’s how. The acid in the vinegar and the stinky bacteria aren’t precisely huge fans of each other, so using vinegar to clean stinky shoes is totes a no-brainer. For real, and in all utter and totally complete honesty, using white vinegar to get rid of smelly shoes is actually pretty simple (and successful, which is pretty rad for us and our pungent peds). Literally all you have to do is soak some cotton pads or rounds in the vinegar of your choice (although regular old white vinegar tends to be the cheapest of the lot), then you can go on and stuff the vinegar-soaked cotton pads right on into your stinky jelly shoes for at the duration of one night, although going for several nights wouldn’t do more than make your fabulous (and probs not funky) footwear smell better than ever.
Baking soda is the second on our list of super easy ways to make stinky jelly shoes smell better than ever, and trust me when I say that not only is this one easy, but it’s also really rather effective. It’s all because of how baking soda has the actual superpower of absorbing practically any moisture out there, which is going to help take the stank out of your pungent peds. Just evenly dash a couple of tablespoons of baking soda directly inside of your funky footwear (or place the same amount in a securely tied-off sock and stuff said sock straight on into your smelly shoes if you want to go for an easier future cleanup), then make sure to leave the baking soda in there for at least overnight. Go for longer if you can, of course, because we really want to make sure to give the baking soda a solid chance to work its magic on our smelly jelly shoes.
Solving shoe stink by storing your uber stinky jelly shoes somewhere sunny is super simple, I pinkie-promise. I mean, you literally just need to make sure that your gorgeous (if a bit stinky) shoes get some solid time spent where there’s plenty of good old-fashioned sunlight and a whole lot of fresh air (outside has both of those, obvs). The stinky bacteria, as it so turns out, are not huge fans of that stuff– which means that we definitely are! Bring on all of the sunshine and fresh air! You can go on and make sure to store the stinky jelly shoes you want to make smell better outside, especially where they can get a whole lot of sun and a good, solid breeze to really take out that shoe stank. If going all out(side) isn’t precisely a good option for you at the moment (which is totes all good–it may be March, but that doesn’t mean that winter is done with us all just yet, and I totally wouldn’t want your beautiful jellies to become jellicicles), then you can also for sure feel free to just store your solidly stinky jelly shoes inside by a window perhaps, where they can get lots of sun, or even just near an air vent that can circulate some fresh air currents by your funky footwear.
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is all we need to wrap up this wee lil’ summary of super easy ways to save your smelly jelly shoes from the dank destruction they’d otherwise be facing. Trust me when I say that all of your worries about footwear funk will be gone ASAP with literally just a spritz or two of LUMI right on into your stinky shoes and then you’ll totally be all good to go!
That there is the summary of stinky shoe solutions! Easy ways to quickly deodorize stinky those stinky shoes of yours on speed dial! Try one or even a few of them, and you’ll for sure be all set to go with these quick tricks for how to deodorize stinky shoes quickly and successfully.
]]>Truly, I had duct-taped the straps back where they were supposed to go (carefully– they were still gorgeous shoes! At least, they were in my lil’ self’s own opinion). The leather was peeling from every rounded edge and corner, then the denim in the center pad of the foot was really rather worn.
I felt so grown-up in those leather sandals– they weren’t glittery or a bright, florid color as most of my previous footwear had been– these leather butterfly sandals were like the shoes my older sisters and mom wore, and I certainly couldn’t have felt any prouder.
We all have those shoes that are just kind of our faves, and those leather sandals were totally mine when I was a little kid. Even those classically fabulous leather sandals, however, faced a dank-smelling dilemma just like basically every kind of footwear out there– that’s right ma’ dear readers, shoe stink.
Now, I know what you’re thinking– how the heck can open-aired shoes like sandals even get smelly? Trust me when I say that they definitely can. Like, they really, really can, and it totally sucks for anyone nearby with a working sense of smell.
But there’s no reason to worry– not when up next we have 5 easy tricks to deodorize stinky leather sandals! Any of these hacks can get rid of your shoes’ funk easy-peasy and successfully!
Yes, yes, the first easy stinky shoe hack is a freezer, and that’s totally rather strange, and nope I’m not sorry! Take a deep breath (so sorry if that deep breath includes a huge whiff of shoe stank) and let me walk you through why using a freezer to fix your funky footwear is actually a really, really good idea.
SO, ma’ dear yet stinky reader, it turns out that it’s not actually your feet that are stinking up said funky footwear– it’s really some stinky bacteria that just so happens to live on your feet, in your socks, and on your shoes. Said smelly bacteria eat up the leftover sweat from your feet (mainly just the moisture) and also the dead skin cells that regularly (and naturally) slough off of your feet. Yum, am I right? Literally a 5-star meal, without any kind of doubt.
Basically, when we want to get rid of the bad smells wafting up from our lovely (albeit a bit stinky) leather sandals then we can totally go after the bad-smelling bacteria in order to do so.
Freezers are actually AMAZING at that, as the cool temps inside don’t really agree with the rank bacteria, meaning that once frozen they won’t be able to stink up your (hopefully soon-to-not-be) pungent peds like they used to!
All you have to do in order to use your freezer to deodorize stinky shoes is stuff said shoes straight on into a pillowcase or even just a large ziplock bag– we don’t want the poor ice cream and frozen dino chicken nuggets to start smelling like a funky footlocker, now do we?-- and then just make sure to leave the stinky shoes inside of the freezer for at least overnight, although going for longer will really help to slow down the stinky bacteria’s stank production, which will be fabulous (and no longer funky, hopefully!) for us and our fave set of leather sandals.
See, I’m sure you read the title of this next stinky shoe deodorizing option and thought to yourself “What the actual freakin’ heck does the writer of this article think I do?!” Well, while I’m sure you have a very solid foot-scrubbing routine incorporated into your daily life, this is just a really good reminder!
All of that positively dreadful bacteria? The ones that make your poor peds so pungent? First things first– water and also anything you’re scrubbing with (like a sudsy rag or luffa) can mechanically scrubbing are great at literally pushing things off of your skin (like dirt, paint, you know, basic stuff like that). Think of water as a sort of “shove” for the smelly bacteria.
Scrubbing really thoroughly is solid as well! Now, I don’t just mean a quick pass over the foot– nope, we’re talking between the toes, around the toes, over the arches, etc, etc. All of it! Like, actually! And do it twice, just to be on safe side, when it comes to taking care of the stank!
And trust me, ma’ dear yet dank-smelling reader, with just a wee bit of soap you and your stinky shoes will be even better off! Soap has a sort of superpower where it can burst apart the fatty membrane surrounding one of the tiny lil’ bacterium and BOOM! You see, if there’s no fatty membrane surrounding and protecting said smelly bacteria, then the bad-smelling bacteria can’t exactly go around stinking up your absolutely fabulous set of (soon-to-not-be) funky footwear.
Do all of this consistently too, alright? A wee bit of prevention is totes worth a whole lot of your time (and sanity) later on. Every day, ya’ got it? You’ve got to wash your feet extra thoroughly with soap and water, between the cracks and all over both of your feet.
Deodorize those smelly sandals of yours super quickly by taking REALLY extra good care in scrubbing your feet extra well with all of that sudsy water, and you and your fave set of shoes ought to be golden!
But maybe you want to try something a bit different than just the regular ol’ method of thoroughly washing your feet to fix your stinky shoes. Something new (we’ll just ignore the freezer shoe deodorizing hack for a moment. That was *totally* a regular stinky shoe deodorizing hack, alright?).
Why don’t you go on and try an easy coffee foot soak? Now, I know you might just think that such a suggestion means that the foot funk has gone straight to my head and fried everything up in there like a crispy sunny-side-up egg, but believe me when I say that you can absolutely use coffee to help make your old stinky leather sandals smell like new again.
Coffee for sure isn’t just a toasty beverage to kickstart the morning and it isn’t just a fancy, sugary beverage– yeah, sorry not sorry Starbs. Coffee and all of that stank-producing bacteria really just AREN’T two pungent peas that like to chill in the same ol’ pod ya’ know? They’re each other’s worst wafty nightmare, meaning that with just a little bit of coffee we can have ourselves a solid DIY and smell-free spa day to get rid of the dreaded stank.
All it takes to use coffee to get rid of bad smells like those hanging about your much-loved (yet) stinky leather sandals is about two cups of coffee and then one gallon of water (warm or cold for both liquids ought to work just fine, so there’s no need to worry yourself about that). Stir the two together in a small tub that’s at least big enough to hold the liquid and your feet, then submerge your feet for at least 10-15 minutes. Afterward, you can rinse and moisturize your stink-free feet (treat yo’self, alright?), and the next time you put on your leather sandals you won’t be adding to the shoes’ stank!
But perhaps you’re just not that much of a coffee drinker (which is totally and most absolutely ok) and you don’t happen to have much of the buzzy beverage in the kitchen. All totally good, because there are for sure other options that we can use to deodorize stinky leather sandals like a charm.
And this next option just so happens to be another foot soak! Really, it’s time for a DIY spa day, don’t you think? I mean, especially if it helps to get rid of that lingering stank in your shoes. Long-lasting shoe odor really just sucks, but don’t you worry ma’ dear (yet dank-smelling reader), a solid charcoal foot soak has got you covered.
Charcoal– oh yeah, it’s just so those toasty burnt, crispy edges from when you barbecue food, right? Summer dinners out in the backyard smell like this stuff because there was always someone’s hamburger that got overcooked, right? It’s called caramelization, not “dad forgot that the grill still had food in it and now one of us will be eating a hotdog instead”-- of course.
Charcoal, as it so turns out, is actually pretty rad for taking on the rank stank wafting up from your smelly leather sandals. Basically, charcoal is just superheated carbon; think like bamboo, coconut husks, etc, etc– or even your family’s last BBQ or s’mores night, although you can also get charcoal from all of that as well (especially if it’s your lil’ siblings roasting the marshmallows (which apparently make for excellent torches, or so they claim).
After being superheated, charcoal forms these wee lil’ pores which can help to absorb odor (woot woot!). Now, you won’t be using those burnt-up marshmallow leftovers as the charcoal for your foot soak (just a solid piece of advice), BUT you can get the charcoal in these supes convenient tablets at your local grocery store these days.
Just take a couple of those charcoal tablets, and spill them into about a gallon of water (warm or cold ought to work just fine), using a tub that you can fully submerge your feet in. Let everything sit for about 15-30 minutes and then just rinse everything off! Ta-dah! You’re all good to go!
The fifth of our fabulous tricks to get rid of stinky shoes is LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer. It’s a super swell shoe spray that’s all-natural and literally works ASAP to get you back to wearing your much-loved leather sandals before you’re forced to go out and find some other summer-worthy shoe (*gasps* not the crocs!). Don’t worry, you and your rather fashionable (and certainly no longer funky) footwear will be back in action sooner rather than later with this literally fantastic shoe spray.
Now you don’t just take my word for it! You can totally take the word of the over 1000 peeps over on Amazon who have given LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer an actually perfect 5 out of 5 stars as their rating, averaging out to a solid 4.4-star rating overall. Listen to Amazon reviewer Kathy Wilson here, who says that after her brand new leather sandals got just a bit funky that she thought that she’d have to throw ‘em away, but thanks to LUMI now there’s no smell at all!
LUMI also just so happens to be a kind of fabulous sort of company. LUMI is a small, family-owned business that sources only the highest quality ingredients that ALSO are all-natural, never ever (and tens kinds of evers) test their products on animals, AND they just so happen to make literally all of their products in the United States. That’s right, cue ALL of the applause, glitter cannons, and confetti because this company really is that rad.
And thank goodness, because goodness knows that there’s enough funk that could use a solid solution like LUMI. Oh, did I not mention? Yeah, LUMI is good for more funk than just that which lives on your footwear. Got a stinky kitchen sink? Spray LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer right on it! Does the bathroom smell bad? It’s time for a lil’ spritz of LUMI, ma’ dear reader. Garbage cans of any kind? We can fix their stank with LUMI! Especially in the summer, we all know that bad smells are just literally everywhere– LUMI has got your back.
And totally your feet, as well. Well, your stinky leather sandals, at the very least. LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer just needs to be spritzed once or twice for your shoes to be smelling literally better than ever. That’s it! You’ve done it, ma’ dear reader, who’s totally going to be smelling their best with LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer!
I don’t know about all y’all but I usually need some kind of summary to round things off– it comes with the territory when you’ve got the memory of half of a guinea pig (that’s me– I’m totes guilty of that). So yay for summaries, and here’s one for you and our five super easy stinky shoe deodorizing hacks you can use to fix your fave set of leather sandals.
It’s super easy for you to use the freezer to deodorize stinky leather sandals. Freezers can totes take on all of the smelly bacteria we’ve been busting in our previous shoe stank-busting hacks, and thank goodness! I mean, our poor singed nose hairs can use all of the help that they can get, after experiencing those whiffy leather sandals, am I right? The low temps of the freezer don’t do the bad-smelling bacteria any favors, so the sooner we can get our smelly leather sandals in there the better, for sure! All you’ve got to do is stuff said stinky shoes into a pillowcase or some sort of sealable bag (keep the food and the funky, not-so-fresh footwear of yours separate, alright?), and then leave the smelly leather sandals inside of the freezer, besties with the Ben and Jerry’s, at least overnight but longer if you happen to have the time for it.
Making sure that wash your feet EXTRA thoroughly is the second option on our list of super quick and easy stinky shoe deodorization hacks, and ok I know that you probs already are well aware of how important it is, but think of this as just the universe’s way of high-fiving you for remembering so well (and if you sometimes forget, that’s totes ok as well, you can just think of this as a solid reminder then). Water and scrubbing are excellent mechanical forces for shoving stuff off of your skin (think grime, visible grease, and the like), and then if we add in a little soap the stinky bacteria totally won’t stand a chance at making your utterly amazing leather sandals so stinky! Ya’ see, that soap is actually what’s really going to end up packing a super pungent punch to the bad-smelling bacteria, as soap helps to pop the fatty membrane which normally guards and protects said stinky bacteria. If we just pop that fatty membrane, then the rank bacteria can’t go about stinking up your shoes, now can it? Consistency is totes also really key, as a little bit of sudsy water and scrubbing every day incorporated into your daily shower routine can definitely help to make your smelly shoes smell like new ASAP. So wash your feet extra well with plenty of soap and water, get between the toes and all around the heel– everywhere! Don’t show that dang smelly bacteria a single (totally sudsy) drop of mercy!
An easy coffee foot soak is up next on our roster of super easy and effective things you can do to fix your stinky shoes super quickly. Coffee and the bacteria that stink up your fave set of (sadly funky) footwear just don’t mix, which is utterly swell for all of us who want to get our shoes back to smelling good enough that we can wear said rank shoes out in public again without having to worry about stinking up whatever space we walk into. All you need is two cups of coffee (and perhaps a third to drink) and one gallon of water (cold or warm works fine, just make sure that you don’t singe yourself with any supes steamy cups of coffee– no burns please and thank you! Mix those two liquids up, and then let your feet soak in there for just about 10-15 minutes. Go on ahead and rinse your feet off, then you can just go on ahead and moisturize after it’s all said and done. You’re all good to go!
The next one of our fast ways to get rid of smelly leather sandals is also a foot soak! A good charcoal foot soak is totally the next thing you’re going to be wanting to add to your regular self-care routine because trust me when I tell you that this stinky shoe deodorization hack is totally worth the effort. Charcoal, which is essentially just superheated carbon, has these tiny lil’ pores on its surface that can help to absorb all kinds of odors (even the ones that totally smell like you’ve gone and left a hunk of old blue cheese just to hang out in your shoes– and thank goodness too!). You can easily find tablets of charcoal at your local grocery store or even just order them online if you should choose to do so. Regardless, just take some of those charcoal-filled tablets, and spill them into about a gallon or so of either cold or warm water (the temperature won’t make too much of a difference) filling a small tub that you can fully submerge your soon-to-be stank-free feet in. Soak your feet for about 15-30 minutes, and you and your lovely set of leather sandals ought to be smelling utterly fabulous soon! The pores from the charcoal will help to absorb the stank, and you’ll have had a solid and hopefully happy lil’ DIY spa day for your lovely self!
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is an absolutely amazing shoe spray that’s exactly what we need to take on the terrible stank wafting up from your stinky leather sandals. This is a shoe spray that’s all-natural, cruelty-free, high-quality, and honestly it’s also probs made from the tears of the gods and blessings from a couple of unicorns (it’s not, but it really is pretty awesome). Aside from all of that, LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer can be used to help deodorize loads of things, from garbage disposals, to bathrooms, kitchen sinks, etc. etc. Fixing your stinky sandals for good literally only takes a spritz or two of LUMI, and then you should be all set to skedaddle, stank-free, smelling like citrus, tea tree, and totally not blessings from unicorns (because why would you need those when you literally have LUMI?).
From shoe sprays to charcoal foot soaks, there is totally a HUGE variety of ways that you can use to take on the terrible stank from your stinky shoes. Learning how to fix smelly leather sandals fast totes couldn’t be any easier! Deodorize those smelly shoes of yours with ten kinds of ease, and do it all successfully!
]]>I’m telling you, I had an absolute blast with those purple rollerblades. I would start out on the deck, pick up just a wee bit of speed, and then launch myself over the edge and into the grass– much to my poor, distressed mother’s chagrin. Later, I finally picked up the courage (and skill level– there was many a crash in the backyard, btw) to go rollerblading in the street with some friends (and under my mother’s supervision– as aforementioned, the roller skates tended to make her just a bit nervous about her kid’s safety).
I mean, what human being, lil’ kid or otherwise, doesn’t absolutely adore horsing around with rollerblades? Or, I mean of course there are professional rollerbladers that are out there being WAY cooler than I ever was with my tiny wee set of skates– of all ages, of course!
What those professional rollerbladers and I definitely have in common, however, is that sadly enough ALL of our rollerblades can get stinky super, super easily and quickly.
It’s not like we can just chuck said rank skates into the washing machine or anything though. I mean, how the actual freakin’ heck is someone supposed to get rid of the stank in those particular sets of shoes?
But don’t you worry, because any of the following quick shoe deodorization hacks can totally help you to fix your stinky rollerblades ASAP and with all manner of success.
Let’s talk about lemons, first of all– and also limes! Alright, we’re actually going to be talking about lemon and/or lime peels, but there’s a totally good reason for that. Yes, yes, I know that you may or may not think (and reasonably, I’ll grant you) that lemons and limes belong singularly in lemonades, meringue pies, and the like. Those are all great things! Like, really, REALLY great things! Lemons and limes are utterly fabulous ingredients to use in the kitchen, there’s literally no doubt about that– I’ve always been a bit of a fiend for lemon bars myself, truth be told.
But there’s more to lemon and lime peels than just some culinary uses, trust me on this.
See, it all has to do with just a wee lil’ bit of science. So, that shoe stank we’re going to be trying to eliminate for our rank rollerblades? All of that really isn’t your smelly shoes’ fault, as it so turns out. It’s actually the fault of some stinky bacteria which just so happen to live on your feet, socks, and in your shoes (they’re literally everywhere– the McDonalds or Starbucks of the microbial world, if you will– you’ll turn around and BOOM there the bad-smelling bacteria is again!).
Said stinky bacteria thrive and jive off of the moisture from your sweat (sorry, we’ve all, unavoidably, got feet that sweat, and that’s totally ok– it’s just natural) and also off of the dead skin cells which generally slough off of your feet pretty regularly.
So, in order to take on the dreadfully terrible stank, we’ll be wanting to take on the dreadfully stinky bacteria. Lemon and/or lime peels are really, really quite awesome for this because of their natural acidity (which the stinky bacteria isn’t a huge fan of– meaning that we are HUGE freakin’ fans of it!).
You can easily use lemon or lime peels to quickly and successfully deodorize your stinky rollerblades in just a few steps. Shred a couple of either lemons and/or limes (enough to get several tablespoons worth of the peel) and then evenly spread out the peels across the floor of the rollerblades you’re hoping to deodorize (just make sure to cover the spots where one’s feet would regularly go). Leave the peels inside of the stinky rollerblades for at least overnight, and perhaps just a bit longer, although you’ll want to make sure to take the peels out sooner rather than later, given that they’re literal bits of food, and you wouldn’t want them to go bad (making your shoes even MORE rank– not for the win, alright?).
If you’re worried about rotten fruit making your fave set of roller blades even stinkier than you started– a valid concern, of course, if you end up forgetting that the citrus peels are in your (hopefully no longer) funky footwear. The citrus peels ought to be able to take on the dank stank in your fave set of skates, but if you’d like to be ten kinds of extra careful that your shoes don’t get any smellier, then we totally have several more easy shoe deodorizing hacks for ya’ and your poor pungent peds.
Newspaper for example, believe it or not, can fix all kinds of shoe funk easy-peasy and ASAP as well. You see, newspaper is actually kind of interesting because of a sort of glaze that printers use on it. This glaze, more commonly known as “sizing,” absorbs water like an actual sponge. I know, I know, that kind of seems counterintuitive to our goals– like, don’t we want to get rid of all of the moisture in our smelly shoes?
I mean, yes, getting rid of the moisture in our shoes is totally the goal when it comes to taking on the terrible stank in our rollerblades. See, the sizing is actually really rather useful for that because said sizing slurps up a whole lot of that moisture and then doesn’t let it go.
Newspaper printers use sizing so that the words and pictures on the page won’t get all blurry from anything like rain or snow; sizing is basically what makes it so that your daily rag doesn’t look like a tie-dyed shirt every time there’s any kind of drizzle or storm. Sizing absorbs moisture like a sponge, and if that moisture can’t get to the printed ink then you’ve got to trust me when I say that all of the moisture probs won’t be making it to hungry bacteria.
And hungry bacteria that don’t eat won’t be able to stink up your feet! Or the skates!
So you can use newspaper to fix smelly rollerblades super easily by just crumpling up a couple of balls of newspaper and then stuffing them straight on into your stinky skates to leave overnight (at the very least) or even longer– unlike the citrus peels, newspaper won’t go rotten on you if you happen to forget about it. Anyway, the longer you leave the newspaper in there the better-smelling those rollerblades of yours will be!
As we’ve just chit-chatted about, moisture from all of the sweat just naturally hanging out in your fabulous (albeit funky) footwear is a MAJOR key ingredient for the stinky bacteria’s smelly success. Essentially, if we can manage to deprive the dank-smelling bacteria of said key ingredient, then badda-bing-badda-boom ma’ beloved readers, you’ve got your rollerblades back to smelling literally better than ever!
And that’s where corn starch comes in. You may or may not know it as one of the best things to have hanging out in the back of the pantry for when you need to thicken up puddings and soups, making pies gel up properly (Thanksgiving SAVED!), or even for when you want to make your fried chicken coating *that* much more crunchy (a lil’ extra dash of corn starch in the flour dredge is all ya’ need btw, if you were wondering). All of that, ma’ rank readers? The work of corn starch– it’s totally nigh-on magical.
Beyond all of that, corn starch can also totally help to deodorize your stinky rollerblades! As mentioned earlier, depriving the stinky bacteria of the moisture they so desperately need to thrive and jive is one easy way of fixing your funky footwear for good.
Corn starch is actually rather good at that– depriving the bad-smelling bacteria of moisture, that is. Corn starch can absorb liquid quite well indeed, which is how it does all of those amazing culinary feats in the kitchen that we were talking about earlier.
Deodorizing stinky rollerblades with a super amazing absorber of moisture such as corn starch certainly couldn’t be any easier. All you’ve got to do to start is dash a couple of tablespoons of the stuff straight on into those stinky skates of yours. Alternatively, if you’d like to ensure an easier cleanup for your future, funk-free self (and I know that’d be me, if you were wondering), then simply put the same amount of corn starch in a sock, then tie it off tightly with a rubber band or something, and afterward you can just stuff that corn starch-stuffed sock straight on into your smelly skates.
Either method totes will work just fine, although regardless of the method you choose, make sure that you leave the corn starch inside of your rank rollerblades for at least overnight– going for longer is also fine, and even encouraged! The longer the corn starch has to absorb the moisture the better, I say!
Cedar wood chips can absolutely be stellar options for deodorizing smelly rollerblades for all y’all, and they’re all-natural as well! Yes, yes, I am well aware that cedar chips and/or planks might just seem good for BBQs or mulching out the backyard, but trust me when I say that cedar wood chips are kind of fantastic when it comes to doing more.
I mean, don’t get me wrong– cedar chips totally do amazing things when it comes to BBQs and such. Like for real, who doesn’t absolutely adore a tangy pulled pork sandwich, a good charbroiled cheeseburger (with all of the fixins’ of course), or perhaps even some veggies that you’ve grilled up (I’m actually rather partial to grilled bell peppers myself– totally one of the best ways to get your greens in). BBQs are swell things, and cooking with cedar chips is just one way to make your food *that* much more magical.
And cedar chips are also rather magical in that they can seemingly use magic to help deodorize those stinky rollerblades of yours! It’s not magic though– cedar chips just naturally smell amazing on their own, and thank goodness because our rank skates could totally use a better smell to replace the present one of radioactive cheese that could literally melt any and all nose hairs within a ten-mile radius of your funky footwear.
Just get a couple of tablespoons’ worth of cedar chips (don’t just get what’s in your backyard, ma’ dear albeit rank reader– said used cedar wood chips simply won’t pack so pungent a punch as compared with a bag of the fresh stuff), then dash those cedar wood chips right on into your those smelly rollerblades that you’re hoping to deodorize. Leave the cedar wood chips in there overnight as a baseline, but go for a bit longer should you think you can bear a day or even two without skating shenanigans (you can do this, I pinkie-promise)!
Our fifth fantastic stinky shoe hack for all y’all is LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer! It’s a high-quality, all-natural shoe spray that’s literally one of the easiest, speediest (like really speedy), AND most successful quick fixes for funky footwear that you could possibly find out there!
And you don’t just have to take my word for it! There are literally over 800 reviewers who gave LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer a PERFECT 5-star rating, averaging out to a solid 4.4-star rating overall. Amazon reviewer Tiffany here says that she keeps LUMI in her sports bag simply for her skating gear:
Ok and beyond all of that, LUMI just so happens to be a pretty rad company. They’re a small, completely family-owned business that NEVER ever (and ten times “evers” after that) tests on animals, uses only the highest quality of all-natural ingredients, AND they just so happen to produce all of their utterly fantastic products in the United States– yes, yes, we can cue all of the glitter cannons and gospel choirs, because LUMI really is just that fabulous of a company.
LUMI also is rather fabulous at fixing other funky items in your life beyond the footwear! Got a kitchen sink with some stink? Spray LUMI in it! Can’t seem to get the smell out of the garbage can? LUMI can totes help, ma’ dear reader.
But back to the bad-smelling shoes! All you have to do in order to fix those stinky rollerblades of yours is literally just spritz LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer once or twice directly into each of the (soon-to-not-be) super stinky shoes, and that’s that! You’ve done it! Go on and rollerblade without any of the stank!
I don’t know about all y’all, but I tend to like summaries. I mean, with the memory of half a goldfish (Dory from Nemo could totally beat me at trivia night, I’m sure of it), such summaries tend to be actual miracles.
Let’s start off with the rather fresh deodorization strategy of lemon and/or lime peels. Those citrus fruits are rather acidic (everybody loves a good, refreshing, sour yet sweet cup of lemonade, am I right?), and the stinky bacteria which causes all of the stank emanating up from your rank rollerblades, as it so turns out, does NOT like acidic things! That means we love all of those acidic things, alright? So deodorize your stinky shoes fast by first getting yourself a couple of tablespoons of either lemon or lime peels (a combination will work just fine as well, if that’s what you happen to have on hand), then after that you’ll be wanting to leave all of the acidic fruit peels inside of your smelly rollerblades overnight, and then perhaps just a wee lil’ bit longer in order to really give the lemon and/or lime peels a solid amount of time to work their must-busting magic; just make sure that you don’t leave the sour fruit peels in there for too long, just so that they don’t go rotten and make your stinky skates even more rank.
Newspaper is next up on our list of easy and quick shoe deodorization hacks, and it all works because of a wee lil’ factor known as “sizing.” This “sizing” is a really rad sort of glaze that absorbs genuinely any and all kinds of moisture– including the sweat from your feet! All of that sweat would have otherwise gone on to feed the stink-producing bacteria, meaning that (without removing the moisture) the bacteria would continue producing stank potent enough to literally knock out a horse within a ten-mile radius– there’s totally no reason for any of that! Using newspaper to deodorize smelly shoes couldn’t be easier, anyway. All you have to do is roll up some scraps of old newspaper into balls and then stuff the newspaper balls into the stinky shoes and leave everything be overnight (or longer, if you can manage to part with your fave, and hopefully no longer funky, footwear for any longer than that). That’s it! Definitely one of the best super quick and easy ways to fix stinky rollerblades.
Corn starch is up next on our easy hacks for fixing stinky rollerblades. Yep, it’s a rather rad ingredient in the back of your pantry, BUT trust me when I say that corn starch is actually really incredible for helping you to deodorize your stinky shoes fast. It all comes from how naturally amazing corn starch is at absorbing all sorts and manners of moisture, including the sweat from your feet that would otherwise go on to feed the stank-producing bacteria in your shoes and on your poor pungent peds themselves. All you need to deprive said bad-smelling bacteria of their much-needed sustenance is a couple of tablespoons of corn starch tipped into your (hopefully soon-to-not-be) rank roller blades OR the same amount of corn starch in a securely tied-off sock (easy cleanup for the win, am I right?). Leave the corn starch in your fave footwear for at least overnight, and even longer if you think you can go a day or so without skating (difficult, I know– although somehow or another, between us both, I think that you’ll somehow find a way to cope)!
Cedar chips are also pretty rad for deodorizing your rank rollerblades, and they’re all-natural to boot! Your funky footwear stands no chance– say sayonara to your shoes’ sorry stank! Simply get yourself a couple of tablespoons’ worth of cedar chips (or any other kind of great-smelling woodchip ought to work as well– hickory or pine are also actually pretty popular for their own swell scents), then stick the scented wood chips right on into your stinky rollerblades OR you can also put the same amount of cedar wood chips into a securely tied-off sock (it works better for an easier cleanup AND you could probs avoid any potential splinters this way as well). Leave the cedar chips in there overnight, regardless of whichever option you opt to go for, and you can totally feel free to leave the wood chips in there for longer, should you so choose, in order to really give the cedar chips enough time to truly take care of the stank.
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the final of our fabulously easy and speedy hacks for successfully fixing stinky rollerblades. As an all-natural, high-quality shoe spray, LUMI can fix all kinds of stinky shoes, and with one or two spritzes directly sprayed right on into the depths of your smelly rollerblades you’ll be all set to go! There is totes no waiting overnight (or even longer) for this one and it’s super fab if you’re in a rush to get going. Skate without the stank, ma’ dear reader, with LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer.
And you’ve done it! No more of the dreaded (and probably dank) rollerblade stink! Or perhaps you’re going to fix your stinky shoes in just a bit. When you do, any and all of these quick and easy hacks to deodorize stinky rollerblades can totes help you on your way to having great-smelling skates without hardly any trouble at all.
]]>Let me tell you, this friend of mine was ten types of punk Frankensteined together with a witty sense of class. I admired the absolute stuffing out of her, and beyond that, I also wanted literally every single pair of her shoes!
Being over 6 feet tall didn’t (and probably couldn’t, knowing her) stop this lass from wearing particularly high-heeled shoes– especially these extra stylish platform shoes that added another several inches to her already impressive height.
Said stylin’ friend inspired me to get a pair or two of my own platform shoes, and for real, these things actually are able to triple an individual’s levels of confidence– I could totally conquer the known universe and do it while listening to old punk and/or rock music if I so happened to be wearing a pair of my platform boots.
What my good and wonderfully garishly dressed friend neglected to tell me about platform shoes, however, was how stinkin’ difficult these suckers are to keep smelling clean! For real, learning how to deodorize stinky platform boots was a long road, but here are several tips and tricks so that you can have better-smelling platform boots for good ASAP! We all know it’s kind of difficult to rock such standout boots if you smell like microwaved radioactive cheese during the attempt, so read on, and smell better than ever ma’ positively fabulous yet funky punks!
Right then you lovely yet lousy-smelling lot, so we’re going to be chit-chatting about baking soda first! I know, I know– what the actual freakin’ heck does rubbing alcohol got to do with fixing your stinky platform boots? An actual whole lot, let me just tell you, ok?
Ya’ see, stinky feet aren’t *precisely* your poor pungent feet’s fault. It is, in most truthful yet terribly funky fact, the fault of some particularly smelly bacteria which happen to live on your feet. Said bad-smelling bacteria simply loves to chow down on the moisture from the sweat on your feet and also on the dead skin cells which just sort of naturally slough off of one’s person (ya’ can’t do all too much about sweating and having skin– that’s nothing for you to be ashamed of, alright?). All of this means, in other words, that your platform boots are an actual and most literal haven for the hungry lil’ buggers– they’re an all-you-can-eat-buffet, it would seem!
But that’s why we have all of these easy and effective shoe deodorization hacks for you to use on your stinky platform boots, ma’ dear if a bit rank readers! Rubbing alcohol in particular can totally help us out as we endeavor to show that stink bacteria just exactly whose incredibly and most utterly fabulous punk-rock platform boots they are (they’re yours, obvs, and you’re about to get them back)!
All you have to do in order to deodorize those stinky platform boots of yours is get your hands on some cotton pads or rounds, soak all of ‘em in some rubbing alcohol, then stuff them into those stinky platform boots of yours and leave everything to hang out in there for at least overnight, although you may or may not want to consider leaving the cotton rounds in there for just a wee bit longer, because that’ll really give the rubbing alcohol longer to take on the stinky bacteria.
Taking on the terrible shoe stank for all of us up next is some simple and honest baking soda! Yes, yes, of course baking soda is *just* a regular old cooking and/or baking ingredient that just kind of sort of hangs out in the back of some dusty old kitchen cabinet for the most part, but y’all have got to trust me when I say that baking soda is literally one of the most magical wee lil’ ingredients out there.
For instance, did all y’all know that baking soda can make your fried chicken extra crunchy if you use it in the ol’ flour dredge– just a dash is all ya’ need! Baking soda is also how some bakers accomplish the classic golden-brown crust of large soft pretzels (those are totally easier to make than one thinks btw– you’ve got to look up a recipe right now and try it on out, ya’ hear me?). And like for real, nobody could or should ever forget how baking soda helps all of our fantastically lovely baked goods rise and reach near-heavenly heights of divine fluffy goodness.
Baking soda also is just apparently a great multitasker because it can ABSOLUTELY help ya’ to easily and successfully deodorize those stinky platform boots that you want to get back to wearing ASAP! Baking soda, you see, is actually rather fantastic for absorbing any and all kinds of moisture (um yeah, your sweat counts) which, if you’ll care to recall, is one of the things bad-smelling bacteria just loves to chow down on. All of this means that when we use baking soda that all of that aforementioned moisture won’t be able to make its way right to the stinky and hungry bacteria– and if we can manage to keep the bacteria hungry and not living their best lil’ wee bacteria lives, then we won’t have to worry about the crazy-levels of footwear funk that you’ve gotten used to (don’t you dare to even TRY and deny it! Your poor schnozz is literally shot from the shoe stank)!
Baking soda can easily be used to deodorize stinky platform boots with just a few quick and easy steps. Get yourself a couple of tablespoons of baking soda and dash it all straight on into each of your funky footwear (alternatively, if you’re worried about ensuring an easy cleanup, you can totally put the same amount of baking soda into a sock, tie it all off with a rubber band or something, and then stuff said sock straight on into your stinky shoes). Either way you want to go for, all y’all will want to make sure to leave the baking soda in your smelly platform boots for at least overnight, but just letting the baking soda hang out for a tad bit longer can totally work wafty wonders for your rad but rank platform boots.
We might as well try and make a 4th-grade science fair project now, because with the baking soda from the previous shoe deodorizing hack and this upcoming one of white vinegar– well, I’m absolutely sure that we could make a pretty fabulous acid and base foaming volcano!
But if you’re strictly here for the super easy shoe deodorization tricks, then baking soda is totes good for that as well. Vinegar is like super, super acidic, you see, which means that the bad-smelling bacteria will all be running for their bacteria mommies in no time when we use said vinegar to deodorize your freakin’ fabulous (yet sadly funky) platform boots).
Any old kind of vinegar will totally work absolutely fine for you and your pungent peds, although I would tend to suggest that you go on and use whichever kind of vinegar you’ve already got in that kitchen of yours. I mean, obviously don’t go on and use your fancy-schmancy balsamic vinegar for deodorizing your pungent platform boots– save the good vinegar for cooking, alright?
I’d really just recommend a plain ol’ fashioned white vinegar– it’s cheap and you probs already have got a bottle of said white vinegar lying in the back of a kitchen cabinet or in the back of the pantry.
Learning how to use said white vinegar to deodorize your stinky platform boots totally couldn’t be any easier. Comparable to the option with the rubbing alcohol, all we need to do is soak a couple of cotton pads or rounds in our white vinegar and then stuff all of it right on into our funky footwear. That’s it! Leave it to sit there overnight, at the very least, but leaving the white vinegar-soaked cotton rounds in there for longer will for sure help to put a better dent in the dank smells.
But vinegar can for sure be a bit on the rank side in of itself– now, that’s not to say that the acidic tang of any kind of vinegar is as bad as the old sour cheese smell presently wafting up from your stinky platform shoes, but still, there’s definitely something to be said for wanting a shoe deodorization hack that’s perhaps just slightly less sharp.
See, cinnamon might be a liiiiittle sharp in its own right of course, but nobody in their right mind would call it acidic, so if that’s more of what you’re looking (and hopefully smelling) for, then this sweet spice might just be the right stinky shoe deodorization hack for you and your funky footwear.
Cinnamon: that one weird scent that’s somehow good for an innumerable amount of jobs. Flavoring all of those trendy pumpkin spice lattes? Oh yeah, that’s cinnamon alright. Basically any and all kinds of seasonal Yankee candles or Krispy Kreme donuts (don’t mind me and my growling belly now, oof)-- for sure, it would seem that cinnamon is quite literally just about everywhere.
And thank goodness, in my own calm and objective opinion! Cinnamon is an extra fantastic kind of pungent (of course, you’re welcome to think otherwise!) and so we’ll be using it to take on the stank that’s been hanging out in your stinky shoes and get rid of it for good!
For this particularly lovely shoe deodorization hack, you can absolutely feel free to go ahead and use either powdered or whole cinnamon– either or will work just fine for fixing the problem of your pungent platform boots. Whichever form of the sweet-smelling spice you opt to choose is going to work equally well as a swell solution to your shoe’s stank. Really, I would just say to go on ahead and use whichever variety of cinnamon you've already got at home in the back of the spice cabinet or just in the kitchen– if you do have to go out buy some more cinnamon in order to make your stinky shoes smell better than ever, then the powdered is cheaper, usually, just an FYI for you, ma’ dear yet dank-smelling reader.
Either use a couple of sticks of the whole form of cinnamon or a couple of tablespoons of its powdered counterpart. Put the cinnamon right on into your stinky platform boots, or if you’re using the powdered form but want an easy cleanup to look forward to then you can (as with the earlier option with the baking soda) just put the same amount of cinnamon into a sock that you’ve made sure to tie off securely. After all of that, go on and feel free to keep the cinnamon inside of your funky footwear at least overnight, although leaving it in there for a wee bit longer will certainly pack a more pungent (and cinnamon-scented) punch.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is our fifth option to fight the footwear funk and fix your stinky platform boots once and for all. What’s really actually kind of amazing about LUMI is that it’s not just great for getting rid of the stank once you’ve got it, but this powder is also for sure one of the best things out there for preventing all of those bad smells in the first place!
And you totes don’t have to believe just me, myself, and I– LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder has earned over 600 utterly perfect 5-star reviews on Amazon, averaging out to a solidly stellar 4.6 stars overall. Amazon reviewer Chicanaza here says that they love both LUMI’s shoe sprays and the deodorizing powder especially for their fabulous boots:
Not only is LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder supes easy to use and supes effective, but LUMI is ALSO a pretty fabulous company in its own right. The company uses only the highest quality of all-natural ingredients, never ever (and they honestly really do mean ever) test on animals, and they’re also a small, family-owned business that just so happens to make literally every single one of their products in the United States.
Beyond all of that, LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder specifically uses some rather rad ingredients that are just extra fabulous for your skin, including zinc oxide, kaolin clay, bentonite clay (lots of good clay here, m’kay?), etc, etc.
Deodorize those stinky platform boots of yours ASAP and successfully with just a wee bit of this powder tapped in, and then that’s it! Smell fabulous and look the same with your freakin’ fabulous (and no longer funky) platform boots!
Alrighty then, we’ve made it through all five of our super easy shoe deodorization hacks! Heck to the freakin’ yeah! Frankly, however, I know that I personally tend to need just a wee lil’ reminder on most things, so let’s just sum up everything that we’ve run through, if that’s alright?
Rubbing alcohol is the first super easy deodorization hack on our list for saving those pungent platform boots of yours, and it literally couldn’t be more simple. Rubbing alcohol and the stinky bacteria (which is the OG cause of the olfactory oblivion that is your funky footwear) are each themselves not exactly the biggest fans of the other, meaning that if we’ve got the rubbing alcohol then the stinky bacteria will be running for its bacterial mommy in no time at all. In sum– if we’ve gots the rubbing alcohol, we won’t gets the shoe stank, alright? So how the actual freakin’ heck do you use rubbing alcohol to fix stinky platform boots for good? A solid question, my fabulous yet funky friend– simply go on and get yourself some wee cotton pads or rounds, soak them with some plain old rubbing alcohol, and then stuff said rounds right into your pungent platform boots, leaving everything to sit in there for at least overnight, or even longer should you be able to spare your fave set of towering shoes for so long a time.
Baking soda is the second strategy for combating stinky shoes we’ve got to share with all y’all, and it totes is one of the easiest methods for fixing footwear funk for good that we’ve got. Baking soda is actually kind of extra fabulous at absorbing basically any kind of moisture, which ROCKS for all of those of us who sweat (it’s normal, alright? No need to get yourself into a tizzy over it); said sweat would otherwise go on to feed the stink-producing bacteria, so I say heck to the freakin’ yeah when it comes to using baking soda to deodorize any and all of our funky footwear. All you’ve got to do is get yourself a couple of tablespoons of our very favorite ingredient to use in the kitchen (that’s baking soda, by the way) and dust it all right on into your pungent peds. If you’d like to make future cleanup easier on your fine (and hopefully not so stinky as of now) self, then you can totes just put the same amount of baking soda into a set of socks that you’ve tied off and secured, then stuff that sock into your utterly kick-butt platform boots.
White vinegar is the easy stinky shoe deodorization hack that we’ve got up next for all y’all, and just like our first option of using rubbing alcohol, this stuff just ain’t great for the smelly bacteria, meaning that it’s great for all of those of us who have got any sort of functioning nose hairs. Any kind of vinegar, if you’d like to know, is like super super acidic, and that’s why the rank bacteria really can’t stand it. Any kind of vinegar can totally work well (they’re all definitely way acidic) to deodorize your stinky platform boots, but white vinegar is one of the most common types out there (not to mention one of the cheapest and most readily available) so there’s that for you– you actually probs already have a container of the acidic stuff hanging out in the back of a dusty kitchen cabinet already– really though, just go for whatever kind of vinegar you’ve already got on hand, ya’ know? For sure, there definitely isn’t any sort of need to make your grocery list more complicated or pricy all just because of your poor pungent peds, of course. Once you’ve settled on your vinegar of choice, you can then proceed to soak some cotton rounds or pads in the stuff, and then go on to stuff those vinegar-soaked rounds right on into your stinky platform boots to hang out overnight (that’s the bare minimum recommendation here, alright!) although any longer certainly wouldn’t be a bad idea if you really want your pungent platform boots to be back to their fabulous (and NOT funky) selves.
Cinnamon is a fresh and fabulous spice for your (not-presently-fresh but still) fabulous platform boots! Use either the stick or powdered form (both can totally help your pungent peds to smell absolutely fantastic– just go for whichever is already in your kitchen, alright?). Deodorize stinky shoes quickly AND successfully with just a couple of tablespoons of cinnamon dashed straight on into your smelly platform boots (or a couple of cinnamon sticks if that is what you happen to already have on hand). If you’d like to have an easier cleanup (and who the heck wouldn’t want that!? Like actually!?) then just put the same amount of cinnamon into a securely tied-off sock and then stuff said sock straight on into your stinky platform boots. Regardless of your chosen and preferred method, you’ll be wanting to make sure to go on and leave all of that cinnamon in your smelly shoes for at LEAST one night, although any longer will for sure be a better-smelling bonus.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is our last super easy hack for deodorizing stinky platform boots, and it totally couldn’t be more simple. Merely tap some of this all-natural powder straight on into each of your stinky boots and there you have it!
That’s all you need to know when it comes to deodorizing those stinky platform boots of yours! Pick any of these fine five options to fix your smelly shoes for good, or if you’re feeling particularly adventurous, you could also totally combine two or three of them if you’d like to really ensure that your lovely platform boots don’t smell rank ever again!
]]>Seriously, but ok, do any of all y’all feel like the moment that the calendar hits Halloween basically every darn single pair of shoes at literally any of the local department stores somehow magically turns into a fabulous set of winter boots?
Like, oh you thought that you wanted a set of plain old sneakers? WRONG! You need to be an epically fashionable snow GODDESS! Are there any spare pairs of sandals in the back, perchance? Oh, you poor, poor(-ly dressed) mad lad.
For real, is there even anything for sale that, quite simply, is NOT fur-lined?! Oh… you THOUGHT! You thought and you were apparently misinformed, exactly, about what season we’re in, ma’ dear reader!
Because it’s winter, baby! Time for icicles, hot apple cider, and freezing morning jogs because ya’ can’t stop and SHALL NOT stop when it comes to your fabulous New Year’s Resolutions (Right? Right!?).
Essentially, it’s official– fur-lined boots are the thing to wear, but here’s the thing about them: even though the fur is most likely faux, it’s still an absolute nasal nightmare to clean! For real! Like how in the freakin’ heck is anybody supposed to get the footwear funk out of those things.
Never fear, my funky friends, for it totes couldn’t be any easier to easily fix and deodorize stinky fur-lined boots, with any of these following options for you to try on out.
The first easy way to clean up fur-lined boots is simple coffee grounds! Ok yes, yes, I am certainly well aware that such a suggestion for a stinky solution to dank deodorization might not make a whole lot of sense to you, but trust me when I say that dry coffee grounds are actually really quite effective, and there’s even a wee lil’ bit of science to back me on up here.
For you see, it actually absolutely is NOT just your poor funky feet that are to be blamed for stinking up your fur-lined boots. In this rank reality, it’s actually this bad-smelling bacteria that lives on your pungent peds.
Said stinky bacteria finds its food source for creating musty mayhem from the moisture found in your sweat and also the spare dead skin cells that naturally just kind of slough off of your feet. Everything combines to make your poor fur-lined boots stinky as heck, which positively sucks for everybody close by with functioning nose hairs.
But thank goodness for dry coffee grounds, because this is where they come in and make musty mayhem a thing of the pungent past. Dry coffee grounds you see, have caffeine (*gasps in utter and complete shock), which in turn has nitrogen.
Nitrogen is pretty rad for helping us out with our rank fur-lined boots because of a funny wee thing known simply as “adsorption.” No, that actually isn’t “absorption” (they’re like totally different things, ma’ dear, yet quite likely just a little bit rank reader). “Adsorption” is where gas (ie the smell from your shoes) and liquid (ie the moisture-laden sweat which is feeding the stink-producing bacteria are presently feeding off of) all stick to the source of the nitrogen in a thin film, and then you can promptly chuck it all into the bin.
So in order to learn how to deodorize fur-lined boots with coffee grounds, all you need, my pungent padawan, is a couple of tablespoons of dry coffee grounds. You can either spread it all out evenly on the floor of your boots OR if you’re just a lil’ bit concerned about the coffee grounds being hard to clean out of your fur-lined boots, then you can totally just put about the same amount into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something like that, and then stuff said sock into the stinky boots. For either route you opt to go for, make sure to leave the dry coffee grounds in there for at least overnight, but going for longer can help make your fur-lined boots smell better that much more quickly.
Up next we’ve got cloves! Do you even know what the heck those are? I mean, like actually, if you aren’t some sort of whiz in the kitchen or basically just a baking deity, chances are you only know that cloves are some sort of random spice.
They’re basically one of the spices that people put into the supes popular “pumpkin spice” scent mix. It’s that toasty warm, rich autumnesque scent that you get pummeled with every time you walk past a Starbucks or Bath and Bodyworks between late September and November (before the sharp scents of peppermint and gingerbread are hurled straight at our cowering olfactory pathways). You’ve probs guzzled some pumpkin spice latte that has cloves in it, or chowed down on a good ol’ fashioned slice of pumpkin pie, or perhaps some delicately decorated gingerbread cookies that all have cloves in ‘em.
Um, yeah, cloves are essentially just some sort of spice, BUT they also just happen to be one of the multitudes of spices that can help us to quickly make your stinky fur-lined boots smell better!
Whole or powdered cloves will for sure work just fine for ya’ although I’d honestly just go for whichever already currently resides in the dusty back bit of your spice cabinet or pantry shelf. I mean, chances are that at some point or another one of the recipes you tried out called for like an 1/8th teaspoon of cloves, and now you have a whole (almost full) freakin’ container of the stuff just languishing there, so go with what you have!
Just put your cloves (whole or powdered) right on into your shoes, or as with the dried coffee grounds you can for sure put the same amount of cloves into a secured sock or something and then put that into your (soon-to-not-be) funky footwear. Leave the cloves in there for at least overnight, although leaving them to hang in there for just a lil’ bit longer probs wouldn’t hurt your stinky fur-lined boots any– just make sure not to forget that they’re in there.
Have you, by chance, heard of nutmeg? It’s just about as common as cloves– like, for realzies, I have yet to see any sort of recipe that calls for one but not the other. To be frank with all y’all, most of said recipes only ever call for literally just 1/8th of a teaspoon where you literally could just sneeze and then BOOM it’s all gone. Needless to say, I’m sure, all of my containers of nutmeg (and cloves, if we’re being honest) are pretty much full.
Well, they were for a bit, but now ever since learning how multi-purpose such spices can be, their stores have certainly deflated somewhat. Nutmeg (like its spicy friend cloves) can easily and successfully deodorize all manner of stinky shoes, thanks to being a lil’ extra whiffy itself.
Same deal as with cloves (you’re basically a pro at this point, I’m quite sure of it)-- either the whole or powdered version of this delectable spice will do ya’ although if you already happen to have one or the other presently residing in your dusty spice cupboard or the kitchen pantry then honestly that’s what I’d just end up going for.
Dust or place a few tablespoons of nutmeg straight on into your stinky fur-lined boots in order to start deodorizing them, or you could also totally place the same amount in a tied-off sock and then stuff that right on into the pungent peds (because ya’ know that the easier cleanup is where it’s at, ma’ dear yet rank reader). Regardless of which option you’re going to decide on, you for sure ought to leave the nutmeg in your smelly shoes for at least overnight or longer– seriously, the longer the better, and I promise– nay, I pinkie-promise you that your fur-lined boots won’t mind it all that much, if at all.
Are you tired of fabulous-smelling spices just yet? No, you’re not, and if you are, well then, I suppose you’re just mistaken– perhaps the funky footwear fumes have gone straight to your head, because amazing spices are some of the best ways to quickly and successfully deodorize your stinky fur-lined boots.
And it’s time for us to talk about cinnamon! I mean, who doesn’t love this stuff? I mean sure, if you’re deathly allergic to it, then perhaps I’ll grant you a pass (and that’s a *very* iffy perhaps), but come on! Cinnamon is totally and without any kind of sane sort of doubt one of the very best smells out there.
Also, aren’t you totes tired of that dang rotten cheese smell that’s presently wafting up from your (frankly rank) fur-lined boots? I know, and can probs say that plenty of people who have functioning schnozzes in your vicinity (or a ten-mile radius) are also utterly fed up with said stank as well!
So put your foot down (and into some fresher-smelling boots) when you use cinnamon to deodorize your smelly fur-lined boots ASAP! I mean it! Go on, get up off of your butt and get yourself just a couple of tablespoons of cinnamon (precisely like the other options, either the whole stick(s) or powdered versions will absolutely work just fine for you– ya’ only need one, however, and if I were you I’d for sure just go for what’s already hanging out in the kitchen pantry or spice cabinet). Either option will work for ya’ although if you go for the powdered option (or even with the sticks of cinnamon) you may or may not choose to place the same amount of cinnamon into a sock that you can tie off for an easier cleanup for future you (making things easier for future us is always a win, am I right?); you’d then stuff said spice-stuffed sock into the stinky shoe, btw. Leave the cinnamon in there for at least overnight, or longer should you not have an immediate and/or pressing need for your fabulous (and hopefully no longer) funky footwear.
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is… not a spice!? Yep that’s right, and that’s absolutely fine! LUMI is a simple shoe spray, but it sure does get the job done, and it does it with an extra fabulous and utterly spectacular variety of style. Most of all, however, LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is easy and effective!
Now, don’t you go on worrying about just taking my word for it (although why you wouldn’t implicitly trust me after all of this, I certainly don’t know!)-- just take a look at any of the literally perfect 5-star ratings on Amazon, of which there are over eight freakin’ hundred, averaging out to a solid overall 4.4 star rating!
Amazon reviewer Dani here says that it saved her fur-lined boots and NOT at the expense of the fur lining!:
LUMI is a rather fabulous all-natural, family-owned, cruelty-free, and American-based (and entirely produced!) footwear deodorizer (*cues all of the choirs and glitter cannons because YES, LUMI is actually that fabulous) which literally requires that you just (now I know this must come as something of a shock to all of y’all) spray it directly right on into your shoes, and then… that’s it! There’s nothing else that you’ve got to do in order to use LUMI in deodorizing your stinky fur-lined boots. Badda-bing-badda-boom, and you’re good to proceed! Go forth, ma’ dear reader, and rock those fur-lined boots with confidence– not funk!
But let’s just make sure to summarize everything we’ve just chit-chatted about, because I know that it was an absolute butt-ton, and between well… all of us, I suppose, I happen to possess the memory of half a goldfish, so I know that as for me, myself, and I, summaries are an actual and most genuine LIFE-SAVER!
Dry coffee grounds are the first on our list of easy ways to fix stinky fur-lined boots quickly, and they’re actually pretty rad. You see, there’s nitrogen to be found from the caffeine in the dry coffee grounds, and that nitrogen has the ability to perform a fun little trick that can take on the footwear funk. That’s right, ma’ dear yet funky friends, it’s time to chat about adsorption! ADsorption (as opposed to the more widely known ABsorption) is basically just where liquid or gas sticks to the adsorber in a thin little film, and then you can remove said adsorber, along with its recently attached film. This is all fine and great for those of us that would like to deodorize our poor pungent fur-lined boots, given as how the dreaded stank (a (rather noxious) gas) and the sweat (whose moisture feeds the funky bacteria) will totes stick to the coffee grounds, and then we can just chuck those on out. For realzies, all you need is a couple of tablespoons of dried coffee grounds and then you can go on and spread ‘em out on the insides of your smelly shoes (or, if you’re just a bit worried about cleanup, then you can for sure just place about the same amount of dried coffee grounds in a sock that you’ve made sure to tie off, and then stick that sock right on into the stinky shoes in question). Either way totally works fine, but you’ll just want to make sure to leave the dried coffee grounds hanging out inside of the smelly fur-lined boots for at least overnight, although if you’ve got the time, leaving them in there for longer will make for even better-smelling shoes.
Cloves are up next on our list of extra fabulous strategies that will totes help all y’all to annihilate the stank in your fur-lined boots for good this time around. Cloves are literally just one of the many lovely and most utterly fabulous lesser-known spices that make up the much-loved and lauded pumpkin spice mix (which, as I’m sure plenty of all y’all are already quite well aware, is basically just the odor that signifies you’re within a 10-mile radius of any Starbucks during autumn). You can absolutely feel free to use either whole or powdered for this here option, although I would for sure recommend just using whatever is already hanging out inside of your spice cabinet or kitchen pantry (smelling great is… well, great, of course, although I’m sure we all know and feel that smelling great and being able to do so cheaply is even greater!). Simply place a couple of tablespoons of whole or powdered cloves right on into your funky fur-lined boots, spreading everything out evenly across the material where your feet usually go (that’s where it will likely be the most stinky, and thus in most need of cloves’ super amazing and most fabulous destankifying powers). If you’re worried about cleaning all of the cloves out of your shoes afterward, you should totally just opt to place basically the same amount of cloves inside of a sock, tie that all off, and then stuff that sock inside of the smelly shoe in question. Either way that you decide to get the cloves inside of your pungent peds, make sure to leave everything be for at least overnight, but letting the cloves stay for longer, like with the dry coffee grounds, will certainly pack a more pungent punch.
Nutmeg is up next, and truth be told, I am actually rather stoked about this method for fixing those rank fur-lined of yours– nuts, if you will, about this lovely spice. Seriously! I mean cloves are great and all, and even coffee drags up memories of the library and the local bookstore, but nutmeg! For real, nutmeg just so happens to flavor basically a gazillion types of autumn-themed lattes, donuts, cookies, etc. etc (pumpkin spice for life, am I right?). This stuff is just kind of magical– and it's also going to be a solid solution to your stinky, mephitic malady. You can totes easily use nutmeg to deodorize your stinky fur-lined boots as well (I KNOW! On top of being a primary flavoring ingredient for all kinds of amazingly fabulous confections and drinks): simply get yourself a couple of tablespoons of either powdered or whole nutmeg (either or will for sure work just fine– just go with whichever is already chilling in your kitchen– no need to bust the bank in order to bust the footwear funk, am I right?). Dust those couple of tablespoons straight on into your smelly fur-lined boots, OR use a tied-off sock that’s been stuffed with about the same amount of nutmeg (give or take) if you’d like to ensure an easier cleanup for future you (and we’re all about that, for sure). No matter which option you opt for, make sure that you leave the nutmeg to hang out for as long as possible inside of your funky fur-lined boots because I mean, come on– which scent would you rather have emanating from your peds? Old sweaty foot cheese which quite possibly may or may not be radioactive (the jury is still out on that one) OR the beautiful, dare I say magical autumnesque scent that is nutmeg!? That last bit isn’t exactly a question btw. You want the nutmeg– forget the footwear funk and use nutmeg to easily deodorize those stinky shoes of yours!
Cinnamon is the last spice on our list of easy stinky shoe deodorization hacks, I promise you– even though, you’ve got to admit, that they’re all pretty solid scents, and I’m telling you that they all can totes help to put a dent in the musty dank of your stinky fur-lined boots. It’s the same deal as all of the other spices– pretty simple, alright? Let’s see if ya’ remember: several tablespoons, whole or powdered, sock it up if you don’t want to clean it up, and then leave it in overnight or longer!
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the last one on the list, but it’s totes one of the best strategies to fix your funky footwear! Spritz it on in your smelly fur-lined boots and you’re done! That’s literally it!
With any of these options your funky footwear will be a problem no more! Deodorize your stinky fur-lined boots with ease and successfully!
]]>So don’t get me wrong, there are totally plenty of other professions and people who are, in their own ways, also really quite noble themselves; of course, it’s not like being good for humanity is solely doctors’ prerogative. On the other hand, there’s no doubt that there are indeed many professional medical folks who certainly put the work in for humanity.
Day in and day out doctors work in some of the most trying settings known to just about anybody. I salute and applaud all of my friends who are trying to shoot their shot with the medical industry, but dang, it looks like a trying profession.
I can only imagine what it takes for a doctor to not only put in all of the effort to first become a doctor, but then on top of that, they’ve got to specialize in whichever branch of their profession that they’ve chosen. Ok, and like after all of that, there’s even more practice and understudying until the doctor-wannabe finally gets to the position they’ve been working all of those long and difficult years for.
Then the work itself is certainly difficult in of itself! The daily schedule of a doctor is one of the most strenuous out there– a full mental and physical workout, without any kind of doubt!
And that’s why stinky doctor shoes can be a real pungent problem. All of the sweat from the long days can really put the funk in any kind of footwear, but don’t you worry, because any of the following options ought to be able to help ya’ to easily deodorize those smelly doctor shoes really quickly and also successfully!
To get this whole list of easy doctor shoe deodorization hacks started we’re going to be chit-chatting about corn starch. It’s that one ingredient hanging out in the back of the kitchen cupboard or pantry that we somehow end up using for a literally mind-boggling array of culinary projects.
I mean, corn starch is totally a great ingredient for not only thickening stews and puddings, but also for being a really rather terrific coating for some good ol’ fashioned fried chicken, given as how once fried the corn starch makes the chicken *just* that much more satisfyingly crunchy.
But beyond all of its uses for making one’s food extra amazing and fabulous, corn starch is also extra great at deodorizing extra stinky shoes. You see, it all works because it turns out that it is NOT your very own two feet that are producing the renowned rank emanating up from your stinky shoes.
It’s actually bacteria that live in said stinky shoes. It’s nothing to be worried about, given as that basically every single human being ever also has had the same stinky bacteria on their feet, BUT we can do something to stop all of that bacteria from really smelling up our poor pungent peds.
You see, all of that bacteria hangs out in our shoes and on our feet because their primary sources of food just so happen to be the dead skin cells that naturally slough off of one’s feet and also the moisture from the sweat also found in abundance in most shoes.
Still, corn starch can totally help to deodorize your stinky doctor shoes, all because of how it’s one of the best natural absorbers of moisture out there. For real, corn starch can draw in all of that excess moisture that’s normally just left hanging out in your shoes, waiting for the bacteria to chow down on it and proceed to make your poor funky footwear smell worse than ancient, radioactive blue cheese that’s been microwaved.
So in order to make your doctor shoes smell better ASAP all you have to do is simply dust in a couple of tablespoons of corn starch (or, if you’re worried about a difficult cleanup, then you can absolutely just put the same amount of corn starch in a sock and then tie it off with a rubber band or something like that), and then you’ll allow the corn starch to hang out in your funky footwear for at least overnight, although you can and totally should feel free to leave the corn starch in there even longer so that it can properly work its shoe deodorizing magic. The longer the corn starch hangs out in your stinky doctor shoes, the more moisture it can absorb before you shake everything out and go on to live your best life as a no-longer malodorous medical practitioner.
Onward to numero dos for our list of easy ways to quickly deodorize doctor shoes for all y’all! Now, black tea may or may not seem like a basic ol’ warm beverage to some of you, but trust me when I say that there’s just a wee bit more to this toasty drink than likely any of us give it credit for.
You see black tea, beyond being something to warm ya’ up, also has these tiny lil’ things called tannins in it. Tannins and bacteria don’t precisely get along now, meaning that if we’ve got tannins then we can go on to lose some of the footwear funk being caused by stinky bacteria.
Like I know that plenty of folk will tell ya’ that orange or apple juice is where it’s all at in the mornings, but black tea gets to double in as a super easy way to deodorize stinky doctor shoes, so there’s that. For real, you could easily have a wee lil’ cup of your tea and then go on to fix those stinky shoes for good this time!
You can totally easily fix smelly doctor shoes in almost no time at all and with literally hardly any effort on your part (especially if you already happen to have some black tea in the pantry or kitchen). Simply boil a few bags of the black tea (wait for it to cool just a lil’ bit) and then stick them all right on into your stinky shoes. Let everything sit for just about an hour, then afterward you’ll remove the black tea bags, and then you ought to dab away any excess moisture that’s been left behind.
This last step is actually like super, extraordinarily, really, really quite important for all y’all to pay double attention to (make that TRIPLE, ya’ hear me?). Remember how we were blathering on about how moisture is like basically the stinky bacteria’s fave food of all time? Yeah, so essentially we just want to make absolutely certain, and I mean utterly POSITIVE that all of the moisture has had a good, solid chance to dry out from your stinky shoes before ya’ get to call it a day, got it? If you squeeze your feet into still squelchy shoes, they’ll be even stinkier before you know it!
The third strategy on our list of easy doctor shoe deodorization tips and tricks for ya’ is plain ol’ coffee. Yes, yes I am well aware that we just got done going over another toasty beverage just one option ago, but for those of you who aren't drinkers of tea (which is totally fine), perhaps you do have coffee somewhere already hanging out in the kitchen or pantry. A cuppa saved is a cuppa earned, as one might say.
Coffee, it turns out, has caffeine– this, I am *quite certain* is a blatant surprise to all of you. What you may not actually know, however, is that caffeine contains nitrogen, and nitrogen has this fun wee lil’ ability called “adsorption.”
I know, I know– you think that I’m talking about “ABsorption” but “ADsorption” is just a lil’ bit different, if you’d like to know. “Adsorption” is simply a description of a pretty rad thing where liquid and gas (ie. the sweat and the foot funk hanging out in your rank doctor shoes) are able to adhere to the coffee grounds in a wee thin film. After the adsorption, you can just go on and chuck the coffee grounds right on into the bin, and BOOM you’ll be your stinky shoes’ stench salvation.
If you’d like to learn how to use coffee to deodorize sweaty doctor shoes, ya’ simply have to get yourself some dry coffee grounds (just a few tablespoons ought to be fine) and then carefully spread them out to cover the insides of the stinky shoes in question.
If you’d like to opt in for an easier cleanup (totes understandable) then you can absolutely get a sock, fill it with the same amount of dry coffee grounds, and then stuff that stuffed sock right on into the stinky shoe.
Regardless of which method you want to go for, dried coffee grounds can easily destankify stinky doctor shoes; I’d recommend if you really want to deodorize your shoes for good that you make sure to leave the dried coffee ground inside of your smelly shoes for at least overnight, although longer will certainly pack a more pungent punch and aid in fixing your funky footwear for good!
Charcoal is the next stinky doctor shoe deodorization tip for you, my dear reader who is somehow still rad while being rather rank. Alright so charcoal, if you aren’t already well aware, is basically just really well-toasted carbon. Indeed, we’re talking all about all kinds of carbon– ya’ see, charcoal totally isn’t just the stuff that’s left at the bottom of a grill after a solid cookout.
BBQ remains aside, charcoal can be (and is typically) made up of superheated coconut husks, bamboo, and whatnot– literally all kinds of things– then once superheated, this extra crisp carbon develops these kinds of holes (or pores, if you will) that can go on to absorb odors– odors like all of the stank from your shoes that have been terrorizing you and everybody else with a functioning schnozz within a ten-mile radius.
So this is how to deodorize stinky doctor shoes with charcoal– find the fabulous lil’ deodorizer first off, duh (many stores and local grocers now sell charcoal in supes convenient tiny lil’ capsules that you just have to crack open in order to use). You can then either pour in a couple of tablespoons of the charcoal straight on into your smelly shoes OR if you’re worried about having an easy doctor shoe deodorization hack that for sure will be easy to clean up, then you can totally just put the same amount of charcoal into an envelope or perhaps even a sock that you’ve just tied off.
Keep the charcoal inside of the pungent peds for at least overnight, but the longer the better, and the more likely the chance that the footwear funk will be gone for good.
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is what we’ll be wrapping up our list of easy doctor shoe deodorization hacks with. It’s a really spectacular and all-natural shoe spray that not only is supes easy to use, but is also totally effective for fixing stinky shoes for good!
It’s ok if you think that all of that’s complete and utter baloney and that I’m a rotten liar– I mean, if I am, then so are the over 800 people on Amazon who gave LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer a completely perfect 5-star review, averaging out to a solid 4.4-star rating overall.
Amazon reviewer Adam H. here says that he sprays it in his office at work, much to the pleasant surprise of his co-workers who claim that it smells like a literal spa now— the only downside Adam brings up is that LUMI doesn’t come in bigger sizes!
Do you want to know what’s also pretty cool about LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer? It can absolutely be used to deodorize a gazillion more things than just stinky shoes! For real– ya’ got a crazy-smelling kitchen sink? Just give it a spritz of LUMI! A rank shoe closet that just can’t seem to properly air out? Oh yeah, LUMI can for sure help ya’ out there too.
But if you’d just like to learn how to easily deodorize stinky doctor shoes, then it def couldn’t be any easier with LUMI. Simply get the smelly doctor shoes in question, a bottle of LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer, and then give the insides of your funky footwear a good spritz or two.
That’s all ya’ got to do! For real! For once, being a doctor can be easy.
But I think perhaps it might be a good idea if we just summarize everything real quick. I mean, I know that I for one have the short-term memory of half a guinea pig, and certainly need a wee lil’ roundup of all the easy doctor shoe deodorization tips and tricks that we’ve been chatting on about.
Corn starch is the first doctor shoe deodorizing hack we have for all y’all, as it uses its extra fabulous ability to absorb any and all kinds of moisture to sop up any spare sweat. Said sweat would have helped to stink up your shoes even more, you see, because the bad-smelling bacteria we’ve mentioned a few times now just LOVES to chow down on the moisture in your sweat and also the dead skin cells hanging out in our smelly shoes. Dry shoes are shoes that will smell great, as it were. So in order to use corn starch to fix your stinky doctor shoes for good simply dust the insides of your pungent peds with a couple of tablespoons of corn starch– or, if you’d like to opt in for a lil’ bit of an easier cleanup, you can always just put the same amount of corn starch into a sock and then tie off said sock before stuffing it inside your funky footwear. Either way, the corn starch will easily deodorize your stinky doctor shoes after you’ve made sure to leave said corn starch inside of your shoes for at least overnight, but if you can go for longer then all the better for you and your poor nose hairs.
Black tea is our next option for our list of supes effective stinky shoe deodorizing strategies, and it works because of how it contains tannins– tannins, you see, aren’t exactly besties with the bacteria which tends to go about causing the stank emanating up from your poor shoes. Now, all of this means that we are HUGE freakin’ fans of tannins– like give us ALL of the tannins please and thank you most kindly. So fix stinky doctor shoes for good with black tea– simply go on and boil a couple of tea bags and then put ‘em into your funky footwear. Leave everything to hang out for literally just about an hour or so, and then after removing the tea bags make sure (and I mean like REALLY EXTRA TRIPLY SURE) that your shoes dry out completely, because if you try on the shoes and they’re still a touch moist, then the stinky bacteria is basically opened to a whole new all-you-can-eat buffet (not for the win)!
Coffee is third up on our list of super quick doctor shoe deodorization hacks, and yes I darn well know that it’s yet another item that people can just drink BUT trust me when I say that coffee can totally double as a terrific and easy-to-use deodorizer for your pungent doctor shoes. Coffee has caffeine, you see, which in turn has nitrogen. Nitrogen, then, has this nifty lil’ trick up its proverbial sleeve known simply as “adsorption” (NOT “absorption”— they’re very different things, ma’ dear, yet stinky reader). “Adsorption” is where gas and moisture (i.e. the shoe stank and any leftover sweat) stick to the dry coffee grounds in a thin sort of film, and then you can totally just chuck the coffee and keep the (now stank-free) shoes. All you have to do is get a couple of tablespoons of dry coffee grounds (or put the same amount into a sock and then tie it off) and put it all into your smelly shoes. Leave overnight, although longer is sure to put a better dent in the dank odors presently chillin’ in your funky footwear.
Charcoal is fourth for our super fabulous hacks for all of y’all and it is absolutely one of the best freakin’ natural shoe deodorization hacks in the book. You literally just need a couple of charcoal tablets (conveniently able to be purchased at many a store and a whole lot of local grocers these days) and then you can either merely dust in a couple of tablespoon’s worth of charcoal straight on into the stinky doctor shoes that you’d like to go about deodorizing. Alternatively, you could totes put the same amount of charcoal into a small envelope or even a tied-off sock would for sure work fine, I feel. Regardless of how you’d like to go about handling the charcoal, you should for sure leave it inside your smelly doctor shoes overnight, but I’d recommend letting it work its stinky shoe deodorization magic for just a bit longer if you’ve got the time to spare for your funky footwear, that is.
And then after all of that is this easy hack for deodorizing stinky doctor shoes for all y’all: meet LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer, also known as one of the most rad rank odor eliminators to be found. It’s a simple, all-natural shoe spray that works to make your shoes smell literally better than ever after just a spritz or two right on into your smelly footwear.
And there you have it, my fine-smelling folk (because you’ve now used or will be using one of the aforementioned freakin’ fabulous tricks for easy stinky shoe hacks). Fixing those smelly doctor shoes of yours will absolutely be a literal breeze so that you can go on doing what you do best– without having to worry about having stinky doctor shoes ever again.
]]>That the ice was strong enough not just to hold people, but also all of the gear they seemed to be in the process of setting up. This was my first introduction to ice fishing– and certainly, I have just got to say that all of y’all ice fisher peeps must be made of some pretty freakin’ stern stuff– like, literally indestructible, somehow or another.
I mean, to endure the cold like that? All for some fish? How the heck is any of that done!? Or, onward to another pressing matter, haven’t all of you ice fishers heard of simply going to the local grocery store? Or maybe a Walmart? I mean, why have fish frozen by nature when you could have fish frozen by the nearest freezer section by the bargain goods? Indeed, to be out there at the mercy of the frigid elements– frosty wind, unrelenting snow, or glaring sunlight on only the luckiest of days– all for hours at a time! How the heck does an ice fish do it all?!
Though, one certainly might suppose that, in general, most ice fishers tend to only go out in superbly winter-proofed gear. The only problem there, though? Using the same winter-proofed gear, day in and day out, well… that gear is likely to start smelling just a little rank after a bit. Particularly the large, insulated, probably waterproof hiking boots that can handle not only the rough, frozen terrain that an ice fisher needs to regularly traverse, but also be able to insulate your feet from the cold temperatures themselves. Ya, all of that adds up to some pretty rank footwear.
Said shoe stank is nothing to be worried about, however, when you use any one of the following tips for how to deodorize your stinky ice fishing boots! Read on to learn hacks and tricks for the best possible strategies for stinky shoe deodorizing.
The first hack to fix smelly ice fishing boots shoes we’ll be chatting about is really quite simple, indeed: it’s literally just submerging the set of sub-zero stinkers right on into a tub of water with some gentle cleansing baby shampoo! Yes, yes, I get that this option may seem slightly simple to all y’all, but trust me when I say that it totally works, and it’s all thanks to just a touch of some good ol’ fashioned science.
So, it turns out that it’s not your poor winter-proofed boots that are the source of the sour stank. It all actually comes from bad-smelling bacteria that likes to hang out on the inside of your shoes, and said stinky bacteria simply loves to snack down on all of the extra moisture from your sweat and also from any dead skin cells that just naturally happen to slough off of your feet on a regular basis (it’s nothing to worry about– all of that stuff is natural, alright?).
Then ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT the water-proof boots that you might use for ice fishing probs are made out of materials such as rubber, neoprene, etc, etc, all of which can be extraordinarily challenging to clean thoroughly, leaving the smelly bacteria to just continue stinking up your poor shoes.
And so yeah, basically that’s why your ice fishing boots get to smelling worse than the fish you’re hauling up.
BUT you need not fear for yourself and your funky footwear! A tub of water likely won’t do any harm to your tough old boots (most ice fishing boots are water-proof anyway, and to be honest, we’re more using the water in this option to evenly disperse the incoming soap all around the stinky shoes, but you can totally feel free check material-care tags if you’re worried, though) and then get yourself a really gentle, cleansing shampoo, such as one that could be used for infants. Pour a lil’ bit of the soap right on into the water, swirl around, and then you can scrub with a brush for just a couple of minutes to clean everything all the way through.
Make sure to leave your ice fishing boots to air-dry afterward, and you should be set to go after all of that!
*Now say this with me you lot, with ALL possible enthusiasm and confidence: “I’M WALKIN’ ON SUNSHINE! WO–ooo-OOAHHH!”
Yep, our stinky ice fishing shoe trick for option numero dos is some simple sunshine and plain old fresh air.
Just like we chatted about in our last ice fishing boots deodorizing hack, it’s of utmost importance that we make sure our shoes have a good chance to dry out each and every time after we clean ‘em. By leaving any moisture in there, we’re basically leaving a lil’ snack for all of the stank-producing bacteria to munch down on and in return leave us even more foul odors to fix up.
Even if you haven’t just submerged and scrubbed your stinky winter boots in some sudsy water, you’ll want to make sure that your poor pungent peds have a solid olfactory opportunity to totally and most completely dry out after any ice fishing expeditions.
I mean, you’re going to be hanging out on top of a literal lake! Like, it’s sort of frozen, I’ll grant you, but that doesn’t mean that plenty of moisture won’t be hitching a ride on your funky footwear, and go on to feed the rank-smelling bacteria.
So go on and store your smelly ice fishing boots outside in order to really give ‘em a chance to dry out. A touch of some solid sunshine and fresh, moving air is precisely what any kind of bad-smelling boots need in order to really get rid of their stank for good.
Now, if you’re thinking that you might get some snow (or some sort of other weather-related moisture), then you can also absolutely just feel free to store your stinky ice fishing boots inside in a patch of sunlight, or at the very least near some fresh, moving air (so, basically not just tucked away inside of the shoe closet)!
The next option is a really (and I MEAN really, really) easy way to fix stinky shoes, and all it requires is a second set of boots that you’ll be alright with using for your ice fishing expeditions. That’s right, ma’ dear yet unfortunately rather rank readers, it’s time to talk all about some simple shoe rotation!
Rotation of your stinky (but soon-to-not-be quite so stinky) ice fishing boots, that is. So do ya’ remember all of that stinky bacteria we’ve been literally talking about almost non-stop? Here’s a basic reminder if you somehow do not– bad smells are the fault of the bad-smelling bacteria. Ya’ got it?
The pungent problemo we’re all kinda sort of facing here is that essentially every single time you put on any one set of shoes, you’re adding to the resident bacteria’s stash of tasty and nutritious moisture (from your sweat) and dead skin cells (which naturally sort of slough off of your feet). Now, there ain’t no good reason for us to be adding to the aforementioned stockpile of the stinky bacteria, is there?
The answer to that is a resounding no! Scream it from the rooftops! We don’t want to make our shoes smell worse! The fact that adding to the current shoe stank is physically possible for some of all y’all’s really rank shoes is shocking, I know, but trust me when I honestly say that the horrific smells could, and indeed, might get worse if you don’t manage to give those stinky shoes a good ol’ break.
Rotating between at least two sets of ice fishing boots is all that’s needed to help starve out the smelly bacteria, and give your first set of shoes a chance to A) Properly dry out from any remaining sweat so that the stinky bacteria won’t continue stinking up your shoes and B) Give you a solid chance to rock a second and likely fabulous set of ol’ winter-proof boots– go on and impress all of your ice fishing buddies, alright? Whoever said that frozen fashion wasn’t a thing obviously hasn’t been properly introduced to the wide and varied offerings of the footwear industry.
Our fourth fabulous and easy trick for ice fishing boot deodorization is something that you likely already have stashed somewhere in either your kitchen or pantry. That’s right, ma dear yet unfortunately funky folks, it’s simple baking soda!
Ah, baking soda– that lovely, lil’ ingredient which we truly can’t seem to do a darn thing without. We put baking soda in cakes and sweet breads to make ‘em rise. Bake chicken with a dash of it in the breaded batter to make it so much more satesfyingly crunchy. Then of course, certainly nobody could ever possibly forget the key part baking soda plays in the crafting of any proper fourth grade science fair project with the characteristic volcanic explosion with vinegar!
But baking soda is totally good for way more than that (more than a fourth grade science fair project, you say? *GASPS*)! For baking soda, you see, is actually a literal master for odor absorption. Oh yes, it’s time to bring it to the stinky bacteria, ma’ dank-smelling dudes!
Baking soda can easily absorb moisture (read: your sweat, basically, although we can also count the water from when you totally *didn’t* accidentally step into some slushy ice melt and now your feet squelch with every other step).
Now, if you’ll care to recall the smelly bacteria for just a moment, any extra moisture means more food for the stinky suckers’ consumption, and it’s all going to result in a rank foot smell that none of us would care to gag on (any longer, that is). More moisture is bad, and less moisture is GREAT!
All we have to do in order to make that happen and fix your stinky ice fishing boots for good is get a couple of tablespoons of baking soda and dash it all right on into your stinky water-proof boots. If you’re worried about cleaning everything up afterward (any good fishermen, of course, know that that’s one of the most important parts of their preferred hobby), then you can also easily put the same amount of baking soda into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something like that, and then stuff said stank-socking sock right on into your smelly shoes.
Regardless of which method you’d prefer to go for, ya’ just got to make sure that you leave the baking soda inside of your stinky ice fishing boots for at least overnight, but if you’d like to go for longer, you totally and most definitely should– the longer we give the baking soda to work its spectacular shoe deodorizing magic the better off all of us (and our poor nose hairs) will be!
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the fifth easy and quick fix we have for deodorizing stinky ice fishing boots. LUMI is supes easy to use and supes effective to boot, at fixing your stinky boots;)
And you totally don’t have to take just my word for it. There’s literally over 1000 reviewers on Amazon who have given LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer an absolutely perfect five stars for a review, averaging out at a solid 4.4 star-rating overall. Amazon reviewer Sam here calls LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer their favorite scent of all of the company’s products:
And beyond all of that, the company itself is also just sort of freakin’ fantastic. LUMI is small and family-owned, producing all of their products in the United States, and literally all of their products are crafted with only the highest quality of all-natural ingredients. Yeah, it’s ok, you can cue all of the applause and start conducting a gospel choir because they’re pretty rad.
LUMI is here to help out with the rank smells! From stinky ice fishing boots to sour kitchen sinks, LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer can totally do it all! All it takes is one quick spray of this stuff at whatever you’re hoping to make smell better, and there you have it! Fresh smells in literal seconds!
All ya’ need, as aforementioned, is a few spritzes of LUMI in order to fix the most stinky of ice fishing boots. Trust me when I say that this stuff is totally one of the easiest stinky shoe hacks out there, and that it is also absolutely one of the most effective options on top of all of that!
And those are our couple of supes easy strategies for fixing funky footwear! Basically everything you need to make your stinky ice fishing boots smell better– please and thank you, and y’all are very much welcome:)
But let’s summarize everything, just because that was a whole stinkin’ lot of information for fixing those stinky ice fishing shoes of yours– just a wee lil’ quick snapshot, if you will, of how to quickly and easily deodorize smelly shoes of almost any kind.
The first option we have for fixing that shoe stank is pretty simple– I mean, it doesn’t get any more straightforward than a tub of water, some suds, and a brush, am I right? I mean, granted, this here option is definitely a fair bit more work than some of the other quick shoe deodorizing alternatives, but if it works it works! All you need to fix those smelly ice fishing boots is a tub, some water, and a gentle cleanser (baby shampoo is a pretty safe option, although you can totally check any remaining tags on the insides of your stinky ice fishing boots if you’d like to make doubly sure of everything). Then you can immerse the boots and scrub carefully with a soft-bristled brush for extra clean and fresh-smelling results!
Storing and drying outside smelly ice fishing boots is another freakin’ easy option you can try out for yourselves if you’d like to make said boots smell fresh and fabulous again. The bacteria which makes your poor ice fishing boots smell worse than the dead fish actually (and in most utter fact) don’t take too terribly well to some plain ol’ fresh air and a good dose of sunshine. So, essentially, we want a whole lot of both! Triple orders, for our poor pungent peds! It’s supes easy on your part, in that all you’ve got to speedily stick it to the stank is simple storage of your rank ice fishing boots outside, where they can actually properly air out. If that’s not possible in your neck of the woods (ie if your neck of the woods is frosty and simply not a great place to leave things outside– at least if you want to keep said things in good condition), then you can also totally just store your funky footwear inside, but near a solid source of light and/or air, near an open air vent or by a regularly sun-facing window, just to give a few examples.
Rotating between one more sets of ice fishing boots is the next super solid strategy for fixing stinky shoes sooner than you can say that it sucks to worry about the stank! No more, we say! It’s all because of that odorous bacteria we’ve been chit-chatting about; if you consistently feed it, you see, then it will totally consistently stink up your poor boots. ANY moisture left in your boots from a day’s fishing venture or any extra dead skin cells sloughed off from your feet is unfortunately basically their buffet (yeah, it def sucks, but you see sweat is totally natural and dead skin cells slough off pretty regularly as well, so don’t you go worrying yourself over any of that, ya’ got me?). All you need to save your smelly ice fishing boots from olfactory oblivion, however, is at least two pairs of ice fishing boots to rotate consistently with. If you give the original set some solid time to chill out (and dry out, most importantly) then you’ll (hopefully) be able to return to a set of fresh-smelling, ready-to-use ice fishing boots!
Baking soda is up next for how save your nose hairs, 101 (*read: deodorizing stinky ice fishing boots ASAP), and just like a couple of our other stinkin’ easy solutions (sans-odor, of course), baking soda basically is just extra fabulous at absorbing moisture (which, as we’ve been yakkin’ on about, is pretty great for those of us who would desperately like to starve out the stinky bacteria who eat sweaty moisture). Just chuck a couple of tablespoons of baking soda right on into your set of smelly ice fishing boots (or put the same amount into a tied-off sock) overnight, or longer if you feel like you’ve got the time for that. The baking soda ought to have absorbed all of the moisture that it’s going to once it starts to clump up some.
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the last and one of the most freakin’ fabulous easy hacks for fixing stinky ice fishing boots that we’ve got to share with you. It’s a simple, all-natural shoe spray that effectively takes out footwear funk ASAP, and all you have to do is spritz it right on into the shoes! That’s it! Stench salvation for you and your footwear.
And really, all it takes is one of these easy hacks to fix your stinky ice fishing boots for good! Go on and try one out before your next fishing trip– your (presently stinky) ice fishing boots will smell better than ever if ya’ do!
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The Rockies? Psshah, my cycle-crazy cousin can cover that distance in like a weekend(ish). The whole dry desert bit of Nevada? Honestly, I think that he probs biked across all of that faster than I could have gone with a car. Seriously, said cousin has an actual tent that folds down small enough to strap in next to his water bottle.
Me, on the other hand? Ah, well once I managed a measly 8 miles and back again, but only because between the “there and back again” in the middle there was a Starbucks, and they had glazed donuts for me to snack on. So… I suppose I can’t really say that I’m as ardent a cyclist as my cousin.
BUT do you want to know what both my cousin and I have in common? We’ve got the same likelihood for getting stinky cycling shoes!
I mean, granted his cycling shoes totally go through way more wear and tear than my own, but nonetheless, we’ve each got to deal with the dreaded foot stank.
Good thing that we’ve got these upcoming five ways to quickly and easily deodorize our smelly cycling shoes, am I right?
I am right, and you’ve got stinky shoes that you’ve got to deodorize, so read on!
Let’s get into it with the first item up on our list: white vinegar. Yes, I’m certainly well aware that it's a mere staple in your kitchen or pantry, but trust me when I say that this stuff packs a bigger punch than most of us would ever give it credit for, particularly where pungent problems are concerned.
It’s actually a matter of just a wee bit of science. You see, it’s not your poor pedaling feet that are making the shoes super rank– the stank is actually a byproduct of bad-smelling bacteria that live on your feet and feed off of the moisture leftover from any kind of sweating and also off of any spare dead skin cells which happen to be hanging about. *Read: basically, your feet are funky because they make for an utterly fabulous all-you-can-eat buffet for that stinky bacteria.
Yeah, it’s totally not crazy-fun to think about. I mean, bacteria? Like, on our feet? WHY!?
Yes, yes, and to that last question, I totally don’t know, ma’ dude, like the smelly cycling gods that may be probably don’t even know why themselves.
In the meantime, however, we can totally work to address the bad-smelling bacteria with the help of some vinegar; I’m just going to be recommending the plain old white kind of vinegar, simply because it’s usually what’s the cheapest available and/or already in your kitchen pantry (keeping it simple is the goal, yes?).
All you have to do is soak some cotton rounds or pads in some of the white vinegar, and then in order to deodorize your stinky cycling cycling shoes just stick it all in and leave it to hang out overnight or longer if you can.
The natural acidity in the white vinegar ought to really put a dent in the resident bacteria populating your poor pungent peds, and before you know it, you’ll be back to having your (not so) stinky cycling shoes smelling better than ever!
Our next one, like white vinegar, uses its natural acidity to really show the stinky bacteria who’s the freakin’ boss– if you weren’t entirely positive, that’s you btw, and YOU are going to be the one save your smelly cycling shoes from their dank doom!
That’s right, ma’ dear, yet quite likely just a wee bit rank reader! You’re going to save your stinky cycling shoes once and for all with these kinds of deodorzing strategies.
Let’s talk about lemons and limes: basically, their peels are naturally sort of sour (a mind-blowing fact for *many* of you, without any kind of doubt). That natural kind of mouth-puckering vibe is precisely what stink-producing bacteria tend to abhor, and we want a whole lot of it to make sure that stinky shoes won’t ever get to the point where our poor nose hairs are just literally begging for mercy from the radioactive rank rising up from your stinky cycling shoes.
First, get yourself a couple of heaping tablespoons of lemon or lime peels (either or is totally going to work just fine– go for what’s cheapest at your local grocery store this week, or like I guess with whichever is already stored up in your fridge). Then you’re gong to carefully spread out the lemon or lime peels inside of your stinky cycling shoes, making sure that they evenly cover the material where your foot normally goes, and afterward you’ve just got to leave it all to sit overnight.
Go for longer if you can, of course, but you really have to make sure not to forget to leave the LITERAL AND ACTUAL FRUIT inside of your (hopefully soon-to-not-be) smelly cycling shoes.
For real, fruit regularly goes bad if it’s not refrigerated, after a little while, m’kay? Be reasonable, and don’t leave the lemon or lime peels inside of your shoes unrefrigerated for any longer than you think is smart– I’m trusting you not to be dumb, got it?
Airing out stinky shoes is a sure-fire way to really make sure that your cycling footwear won’t smell foul ever again.
I mean, who doesn’t feel like a good, swift breath of fresh air isn’t what literally everybody needs? My old high school biology teacher used to have a saying for when we had to clean up acid off of those notoriously fireproof (but not necessarily acid-proof) desks in many a high school science class: “The solution to pollution is dilution!” It was what he said when I asked if the stuff (AKA the acid we’d been experimenting with but a moment ago) was safe to touch– it most certainly was not. Dilution time!
But thanks to dilution plenty of bad things can easily become a pesky problem of the pungent past. Make way for the must more pleasant-smelling present, my dear yet quite likely stinky cyclers!
All you have to do to fix those stinky cycling shoes is make sure to store them outside, where they can get plenty of sunshine and lots of moving air. NO GYM BAGS, alright? Only good, plain old fresh air.
Storing your stinky cycling shoes outside might not precisely an option for you, however (which I can totally relate to, as I look outside to see a fresh pile of snow and ice in the yard outside my window that’ll probs be there for at least another week). If that’s you, or something like it, then you should totally and most absolutely feel free to store the smelly cycling shoes inside, but at least somewhere with lots of sunlight and perhaps a moving air current, like by a window that typically gets lots of bright sunlight, for example, or simply store ‘em by a nice air vent.
Up next on our easy solutions for stinky cycling shoes is your very own freezer! Yes, you read that right, your eyes aren’t clocking out just quite yet (unlike your sense of smell, which we all know is pretty whacked at this point due to your poor pungent peds).
Now, I know that even being so bold as to state the word “freezer” on this here list of odor-eliminating hacks is somewhat mad, but trust me when I say that the method is not only sound, but actually quite effective. Like, really, really effective; and with this frigid lil’ tip up your bicycling glove, you’ll never ever have to worry about that crazy cycling shoe stank again!
Said stank is smacked right up its grody face when the odor-producing bacteria are shivering their lil’ hinies off. Basically, what we’re going to want to do here is force the rank bacteria to freeze for as long as possible, so much so that when we haul our shoes out again for a bike ride, said bacteria will be in positively no condition to go about producing shoe stank rank enough to be considered utterly radioactive.
First off, I’m going to suggest that you get yourself a pillowcase or some other bag to wrap up the stinky shoes with– I mean, I know that you take care of your beloved shoes and all, but still… I def ain’t one to go about putting any kind of shoe in right next to the ice cream, ya’ know?
If you want to fix your stinky cycling shoes for good, stow ‘em on in the pillowcase and then stow that pillowcase right on into the freezer. Leave everything to *chill* while you sleep and dream of cycling down gorgeous rivers and winning ALL of the biking races (if that’s your thing), and then wake up to shoes that don’t smell like a physical punch to the nose.
Leave 'em in the freezer for longer if you really want to freeze out the stank, and give the bacteria a brain-freeze (or the microbial equivalent– do bacteria possess brains? I feel like if they did, they’d just spend all of their spare time evilly cackling in our poor shoes– at least, they did before you went on and froze ‘em out)!
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the final trick we’ve got up our sleeves for deodorizing our stinky cycling shoes. LUMI is a simple, all-natural shoe deodorizing spray and trust me when I say that not only does this stuff get rid of the bad shoe smell, but that it also makes your cycling shoes smell better than they ever might have before.
Ok, and I get that you might just want more than one opinion. How about 10,000 PLUS opinions over on Amazon? For realzies, those 10,000 happy customers have left utterly perfect 5-star reviews for LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer, resulting in a solid 4.4 star-rating overall. It’s the company’s BEST-FREAKIN’-SELLING product; if that doesn’t tell you something, I think the funky footwear fumes may have gone straight to your head, and it’s totally easy to see just exactly why, I mean if you haven’t got LUMI at your back (and in your shoes).
Amazon reviewer “SaraNYC” here says that she had tried basically everything, from a million gazillion different shoe deodorizing sprays to charcoal inserts after working out at Soul Cycle, but that LUMI is the only thing that she’s found that can really clear out the shoe smell:
It’s number one in her book and in ours! And for good reason, too! Not only is LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer super-duper amazing at speedily deodorizing stinky shoes of all kinds, but it also hails from an extra fabulous company.
LUMI is a small, family-owned business that only sources the highest quality of all-natural ingredients, never ever ever (and that truly is ever) tests their products on any animals, and as an added bonus ALL of their products are made in the United States! Go on ahead– you can cue every sort of gospel choir, confetti cannon, and herd of sparkly, glitter-bedecked parade unicorns you’ve got, because yes indeed, they are quite literally and in all truth that fabulous.
And do you want to know what else is pretty fabulous? The fact that you can spray LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer ANYWHERE and spread that fresh-smelling deodorizing magic wherever it’s needed!
Got a stinky sink in your kitchen? Yeah, I know, I know, we have no idea as to why, exactly, it smells like all of last week’s food is still hanging out in the drains, but somehow it does. Spray LUMI right on in there, and you’ll be smelling the lovely scents of both citrus and tea tree in no time at all!
Do you perhaps have a bad-smelling bathroom that just refuses to properly air out? LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer has got your back!
And your feet too! If you’d like to make your cycling shoes smell better in literally the time it takes to shift up the gears on your bike, then simply spray LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer directly into your stinky shoes a couple of times and voila! Stank salvation has arrived for your shoes! Go forth and smell better than ever while you cycle.
But let’s just put the pedal on the brakes for a hot moment– I don’t know about all y’all, but I’m totally the kind of person who needs to have some sort of a neat lil’ summary at the end of everything. Yes, lists are totally great and all, but that roadkill you bicycled past a few miles back has a better short-term memory than I do, so I need ALL of the summaries.
Let's go through 'em all one by one, and work our way through all of our extra amazing tricks for deodorizing cycling shoes that A) Stink, B) Can knock out the other cyclers in your marathon by mere proximity to the stink, and/or C) The *very-nearly* radioactive stinky cycling shoes of yours that ought to be on some kind of international hazard ban list.
First up, we have white vinegar, which can easily fix funky footwear because of its natural acidity being really quite dreadful for the dank-smelling bacteria– for real, this stuff and bacteria simply don’t mix well, which is absolutely amazing for all of us who want to learn how to fix stinky cycling shoes ASAP. All you have to do is soak a few cotton rounds or pads in your white vinegar (or whichever variety of the helpful sour pantry staple you already have on hand), and then stick all of that right on into your smelly cycling shoes. Leave everything in there for at least overnight, but go for longer if you can spare the time.
Lemon or lime peels also can pack a sour punch right at the stinky bacteria who have the freakin’ audacity to go about musting up your poor cycling shoes. Inherent acidity really helps us on out when we put a couple of tablespoons of either lemon or lime peels directly into your stinky shoes (trying to evenly distribute across the material of where your foot normally would go) and then leave everything be overnight or longer (same drill as the last option– longer will work to save your stinky shoes that much better, if you can spare the particular set of stinky shoes for more time). Just make sure that you don’t go about forgetting that you’ve put the lemon or lime peels in there, else they could go bad and then they’ll totally make the cycling shoes smell even worse! Remember that food usually needs to be refrigerated, and sadly enough, even food that is helping us to fix our stinky cycling shoes is no exception.
Allowing your stinky cycling shoes a good chance to properly air out is also key to achieving better smells for our presently funky footwear. Good old-fashioned sunshine and fresh air are sure to help put a dent in the dank smells currently emanating up from your unfortunately rather rank cycling shoes. All you have to do for this option on how to quickly deodorize your smelly cycling shoes for good is store your stinky shoes outside, or at least in a sunlit area where they can get some nice airflow, all of which can help make your cycling shoes smell better than ever.
Freakishly funky smells stand positively NO chance once you stuff the source straight on into the center of Dante’s frigid center of Hell– or just your freezer. Yeah, that works too, should you not have direct access to the frostier alternative. Freezing temperatures seriously work well to fend off the wack wafts spreading up from your stinky cycling shoes. Bad-smelling bacteria totally doesn’t know how to bundle up when the temperature plunges, meaning no more pungent punches to endure from entirely encumbered cycling shoes! For realzies, all you need is a pillowcase or like a bag maybe (we just need to make sure that the ice cream is safe from all of those dang stinky shoe cooties, am I right?), and then obvs you should likely have a freezer that’s in proper working order. Use said fabulous freezer to easily deodorize those stinky cycling shoes after you’ve got them all wrapped up in the pillowcase, and then chuck them (and the unsuspecting smelly bacteria) right on into the cold depths occupied only by ancient casseroles and some lovely Ben and Jerry’s encased by only a wee touch of severe freezer-burn. Leave everything in there for at least overnight, but just tiny bit longer won’t hurt the stinky cycling shoes, and it will definitely be the stank salvation we've been hoping for to save us all from your funky footwear!
Or just try LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer! This truly fabulous shoe spray is all we need to wrap up this summarized list of easy ways to fix smelly cycling shoes. The extra fantastic shoe spray takes literal moments to take out the deadly dank rank rising up from even the funkiest of footwear. Spritz LUMI right on into your stinky shoes and be fully prepared to head out on ALL of the most amazing cycling adventures, whether that be at your nearest-located gym, a couple of state-wide slogs, or anything in-between!
Use any of these super amazing options to deodorize cycling shoes quickly, and most importantly, supes successfully. You could even try using two at a time if you’d like to doubly make sure that stinky shoe smell never comes back again! Just like a good old sub sandwich at your fave snack stop on a bike ride, combos are always just kind of the best, and that goes for easy smelly shoe hacks as well! Maybe even go for tripling up on these terrific footwear deodorizing tricks if you’d like to be sure that you’ve deodorized your smelly cycling shoes for good!
Bowling is definitely like way different than America’s (other) favorite pastime, although who doesn’t love a good old game of baseball? Bowling is pretty great, even so. For one thing, anybody can play bowling practically year-round (frozen baseball, unfortunately for sports hobbyists, just ain’t a thing quite yet ya’ see).
I mean, most bowling places also serve good quality pizza, mozzarella sticks, and bowling alleys offer a great venue for parties and get-togethers– different than the overpriced hotdogs and nachos one could alternatively find at a stadium.
Now, that’s not to say that I’m just going to ham on about baseball. Nah, I’m just here to point out that while bowling may not be the most popular and widely-watched sport of all time, it certainly deserves its own wee moment of appreciation, at times.
Seriously! Bowling is something a wide range of folk can enjoy without having to go through years of practice and professional work. It’s a game, which baseball is too, of course, but sometimes it can be difficult to enjoy something (simple, even) without worrying about being supes great at it. Being bad at bowling is kind of a part of the whole adventure, isn’t it?
One thing that both bowling and baseball have in common, though?
Really stinky shoes! Whether you’re a professional bowler or just someone who likes to spend their weekend nights at a nearby alley, we all want to know how to make stinky bowling shoes smell better quickly.
But have no fear! Keep on reading for some helpful tips on how to easily deodorize shoes of all kinds successfully, ma’ dear (yet probably just a wee bit smelly) readers.
The first trick for deodorizing stinky bowling shoes we’ve got up for ya’ today is baking powder. Indeed, that ever-present item on the ingredient list for baking. What we’re constantly realizing we’re out of until the last moment in preparing carby and sugary delights straight from the oven.
Now, I know that at least one of your eyebrows is arching high right now, skeptical about how such a mundane item as baking powder could have any kind of measurable effect on funky footwear, but trust the process, and trust me when I say that the whole thing actually has a bit of logic standing behind it.
Any kind of smelly shoes, you see, are made smelly not by you and your poor pungent feet themselves, but actually by stinky bacteria that live on your feet, in your socks, and also on all of the shoes you wear.
Said smelly bacteria like to hang out in those places because it’s where we naturally leave behind lots of moisture from our spare sweat and also dead skin cells that just kind of naturally are going to slough off of our feet– both of which happen to be precisely what growing lil’ stinky bacteria love to chow down on.
So, basically, the more sweat there is and the more we wear any of our shoes, the more stinky they’re going to get because the smelly bacteria will be thriving and jiving off of our leftovers. YIKES!
Baking powder can help us fix our freakishly rank bowling shoes by being super terrific at absorbing moisture– any kind, including from our sweat! Remember, less sweat, less happy bacteria, and less stinky shoes!
Just put a few tablespoons of baking powder straight on into each of your smelly shoes and give ‘em a good shake so that everything is consistently distributed throughout the shoes (it would kind of suck to have one stinky patch of fabric and the rest be fixed, now wouldn’t it?).
Alternatively, you can also opt in for an easier cleanup and simply put the baking powder into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something like that, and then put the sock into the shoes.
Either way ought to work just fine to fix funky-smelling shoes quickly, as you leave the baking powder inside of your shoes for at least overnight, or possibly longer if you’re not due at the bowling alley for a little while.
Black tea is up next on our list of easy solutions to deodorize entirely-too-stinky bowling shoes. Yes, yes, black tea is another item you may or may not already have stored somewhere in your kitchen or back in the pantry, and you’re entirely welcome, of course ;)
Black tea works to help us all easily deodorize our poor stinky bowling shoes because of something called tannins. They're actually pretty rad (and not rank, thank goodness)-- tannins are a natural component of black tea, and tannins and bacteria just don’t mix well. Sooooo… bacteria, or tannins? I know that as for me, myself, and I, it’ll be the option of taking the black tea and its tannins over the stinky shoes, any ol' day!
So boil up a few bags of black tea and then stick them inside of your stinky bowling shoes for at least one hour, and then after the waiting period is all done, take the black tea bags out, wipe off any extra liquid that might still be hanging out in your shoes, and then let your bowling shoes dry out (now, hopefully smelling much better).
This last step of making sure to let our bowling shoes dry out is actually waaaay important, and I truly mean it! Do you remember about how that bad-smelling bacteria just love to slurp up extra moisture? If you go on and stuff your feet back into your smelly shoes then they’re just going to get even more smelly, which would totally suck for everybody who has to hang around ya’ when you’re aiming to make that next perfect roll of the bowling ball.
Let the funky footwear air-dry, and don’t make your stinky shoes smell even worse!
Clean socks might seem pretty obvious to those of you out there looking to clear the air for their poor pungent peds, but it’s a rather simple step that plenty of funky (but otherwise quite lovely) folk tend to actually overlook.
So all of that rank bacteria in your shoes and on your feet also (sadly enough) is able to hitch a ride in your socks (as if stinking up our shoes weren’t already dreadful enough!), and in turn, can pass on the rank smells to your bowling shoes.
Sweat and its excess moisture can also pass from foot to sock and then onward to the stinky shoes, causing the bacteria in there to get even more moisture to chow down on! Totally not great!
Now, I know that it can already seem like a lot– having to deal with being the greatest bowling champion of all time (a given for your lovely self, I’m sure), practicing your #toocoolbowlingskillz TM from time to time) AND staying on top of making your bowling shoes smell as great as you can play (*read: fabulously, of course)– but without a doubt, clean socks will for sure help us all out in making stinky bowing shoes smell better permanently.
Fresh, clean socks for the next time you go bowling, ya’ hear me?! Even if you think that your socks are like “mostly” dry, don’t even give the bad-smelling bacteria a shot at making even more stank!
Keep a spare pair of clean socks always in your bowling bag if you’ve got to, but whatever it takes, make sure to always be wearing clean socks when you’re wearing shoes that you’re hoping to make a little less stinky and hazardous to nose hairs everywhere.
Time to take a break from all of those edible options we’ve got for how to deodorize your stinky bowling shoes for good– a good newspaper might be food for the mind in your mornings before you head on out, but it certainly isn’t on any recommended diet that I’d try out!
While not edible, newspapers are certainly able to help us on out with our stinky bowling shoe problem. You see, most kinds of printed newspapers have a layer of glaze painted right on top of ‘em, known commonly as “sizing.”
“Sizing,” ma’ dear (yet quite likely a wee bit stinky) reader absorbs water like a bonafide sponge and then holds onto it pretty tightly so that the printed words and pictures underneath it on the newspaper won’t blur or anything.
Seriously, without sizing, your daily rag would be a seemingly tie-dyed rag with everything wayyy too blurry to conceivably read.
As a result, newspaper also actually serves pretty well to absorb any moisture from your sweat leftover on the insides of your stinky bowling shoes, and if you’ll care to recall it’s that sweat which helps to feed our bad-smelling bacteria (not precisely) friends. Remember, ma' funky friends: less sweat, less stank.
So crumple up a few balls of paper newspaper and to deodorize stinky bowling shoes you’ll be wanting to stuff the newspaper all right on in, leaving it be overnight, or even longer if you’d like to give the newspaper some more time to really work its moisture-absorbing wonders.
Another option for how to easily fix stinky bowling shoes that you probs shouldn’t try to eat (we’re really on a roll here) is going to be cedar chips! Now, the mere mention of cedar chips has probs got you to thinking about barbecuing with the lovely-smelling woody leftover bits, and I can totally feel that!
There's cedar plank salmon or the tangy and bright taste of smoked slow-roasted beef jerky over cedar chips, just to start. Hamburgers from old scout camping trips, with cedar chips scenting our messily formed patties and roasting toppings (surprise, surprise, but the parents always insisted on some vegetable topping or another). I also once had a friend who swore that cedar-roasted eggplant was a culinary delight fit for the gods, although I myself can’t testify to its ambrosia-like flavors, as I have never had the pleasure of sampling.
Ah well, I suppose cedar chips do have their consumable purposes, if not directly.
But only so long as you can spare a little over a handful of the great-smelling bark in order to save your shoes from their mephitic malady.
Use cedar chips to fix stinky bowling shoes by stuffing each shoe with just about a handful and then leave it all inside for at least overnight, but perhaps longer if you think that the bowling alley can spare its reigning champion for more time than that;)
If you’re worried about wanting an easier cleanup– or just getting splinters, which is totally reasonable– then you can also simply opt in to stuffing some clean socks with the same amount of cedar chips and also leave them in for the same amount of time.
Just make sure not to use the cedar chips for cooking after you’ve used them to fix your stinky shoes for good– they’ve already given their all!
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is the final option up on our absolutely fabulous list of quick lil’ tricks for completely deodorizing bowling shoes, and getting rid of that foul foot odor for good.
And I’m not the only person who’s got a whole lot of great things to rattle off about LUMI. It’s got a swell 4.6 star rating on Amazon, with over 600 of those fabulous ratings being a bona fide PERFECT five stars. Amazon reviewer Alyssa here says that it fixed her boyfriend’s smelly feet and now both her shoes AND floors smell awesome again:
LUMI is also just kind of a really rad company. They never test on animals, only ever source the highest quality of completely natural ingredients, and have I already mentioned that they’re a small, totally family-owned business? Ah right, and they make all of their products in the United States– feel free to cue all of the confetti and gospel choirs because, yeah, they’re pretty rad.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is their best product for preventing foot odor because of how it prevents moisture in your shoes. It uses high-quality ingredients that are pretty fabulous for your skin, including bentonite clay, kaolin clays (there are lots of rad clays here), and also zinc oxide.
Just a little bit of LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder tapped on into your shoes is how you fix bad smelling shoes for good! Seriously, it’s going to be your go-to stuff from now on when it comes to knowing how to make stinky bowling shoes smell better, and make YOU ready for your next roll!
But I think it might be helpful to summarize everything, however. Everybody loves a good summary, unless you somehow have been gifted with an utterly perfect (and dare I say, impossible?) kind of memory. If that’s you, then whatever, you’re better than like the entire human race, so go you.
For the rest of us mere mortals who may or may not like a good reminder every now and again, here are a few wee quick summaries on all of the aforementioned options for how to easily deodorize stinky bowling shoes.
Baking powder can easily absorb any and all kinds of moisture, meaning that sweat (AKA one of the stank-producing bacteria’s favorite kinds of nourishment) doesn’t stand any kind of salient sort of chance hanging around in your shoes; no sweat automatically curtails the smelly bacteria’s options for making your footwear smell so rank. So either dust a few tablespoons worth of baking powder straight on into your stinky shoes or put the same amount into a sock that you’ve tied off, and then leave the baking powder (in either mode of conveyance) inside of your funky footwear at least overnight, but longer if you can manage to spare the time away from the bowling alley.
Black tea has got these fun lil’ things called tannins, which bacteria simply despise, meaning that we want a whole butt-ton of these tannins hanging out inside of our stinky bowling shoes. In order to save your stinky bowling shoes from dank doom you'll be wanting to boil a couple of black tea bags, stick them right on into your smelly shoes, and then leave ‘em all in there for just about an hour or so. Take the black tea bags out after the hour has run its course, and just go on in and dab away any excess liquid that’s been left behind. Make sure to allow your (hopefully not quite so stinky) bowling shoes to air out (COMPLETELY! AND I MEAN IT!!) before heading back out to show all of the bowling plebeians how it’s really done.
Clean socks take it up a level by keeping your shoes a sweat (and moisture)-free place, meaning that the stinky bacteria which regularly smell up your poor pungent bowling shoes won’t have one of their very favorite sources of food. Basically, we’re looking to starve ‘em out. Seriously, don’t just stuff your feet right on into your bowling shoes if you’re still wearing the socks you’ve already been wearing literally almost all day– they’re going to be sweaty, and even if it’s just a little bit, it’s going to be headed straight to the rank bacteria’s lil’ gullets if you do! So switch out old socks for fresh, clean ones whenever you’ve got to amble on over to the bowling alley, and save your stinky shoes from olfactory oblivion (and all of our used and abused nose hairs in the same roll)!
Newspaper is next up on our freakin’ fantastic roundup of rank smell-busters! Newspapers have got this pretty sweet glaze (not like Krispy Kreme donuts– wrong kind of glaze, ma’ dear yet dank-smelling reader), and that glaze absorbs water so that it can’t reach what’s been printed on the newspaper itself. “Sizing” is like a sponge that slurps any and all kinds of moisture, including the moisture left from the sweat inside of your stinky shoes. For real, you can absolutely keep your bowling shoes from smelling bad by crumpling up some regular, old-fashioned, paper newspaper and then stuffing it all right on into your smelly shoes, and then leave everything to sit for at least overnight, although longer will for sure pack a more pungent punch and help to keep you smelling fresh and fabulous as you go for the strike at the bowling alley.
Cedar chips can make your bowling shoes go from smelling funky to fantastic real easily. Simply either stuff your smelly shoes with the great-smelling mulch or stuff the same amount into a tied-off sock (totally understandable– splinters in the heel probably wouldn’t do all that much in helping you to finally beat out your high score in the bowling lane), then afterward make sure to leave the cedar chips in overnight or longer if you’re not planning on wearing your stinky shoes for a lil’ while.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is the last hack for quickly fixing stinky shoes for good, and it’s literally about as easy as it gets. In order to make your stinky bowling shoes smell better, simply tap in some of the foot powder directly in to absorb the moisture. It’s great for preventing malodorous mayhem, as it goes directly for the source of the sour stench in your funky footwear. Not to mention, the company itself is small, family-owned, and uses all-natural ingredients, so you can feel pretty great and smell pretty great on top of it all.
And there you have it, ma’ beloved but funky folk! We’ve made it through all six of our cheap and effective hacks to deodorize bowling shoes. Get ready to absolutely and most totally ROCK the alley and be THE greatest-smelling bowler with any of these tips and tricks up your sleeve. Go on and combine any of them too, btw, if you feel like you want to make your stinky bowling shoes smell *that* much more amazing– trust me, one easy deodorizing hack will totally help ya’ on out, but should you feel the need for a lil’ extra oomph, two or three deodorizing tips and strategies will totally make your bowling shoes better-smelling in hardly any time at all.
It wasn’t that I didn’t care– certainly, I wanted to try my absolute very best, but it turned out that I really wasn’t very good at any of the games, and so I just kind of relegated myself to the background, all so as to let the more athletic kids a chance to shine– thoughtful of me, wasn’t that?
The problem with volleyball is that, eventually, everybody has a part to play– it’s very much a team effort, and that was to my detriment, as the wall-hugger of my PE class.
In my very first game, I tried my absolute darndest to watch the ball, taking extra care to follow it with my eyes– until the moment I didn’t, and my face was provided a rather upfront and speedy introduction to the ball. SMACK!
But even plebeian, obtusely less-than-average athletes such as myself know that volleyball is a fun sport. It’s a good way to keep in shape, and a great way to build relationships with your team.
On the other hand, the sport certainly comes with its own trials and travails. Take those stinky volleyball shoes, for example! Thick, rubber-soled boots that can readily grip the gym floor and allow one to pivot and cut with ease can readily become the stinkiest thing in your shoe closet!
Yeah, they can’t exactly be tossed into the washing machine, but here are some easy and quick ways to fix smelly volleyball shoes successfully and without having to break the bank.
I know that you probably read the title of this subsection, and thought that it was kind of wishy-washy. Like, just letting your shoes breathe a little? That’s it!?
Trust me when I say that, yes, airing your shoes out is totally one of the easiest and most effective ways to deodorize smelly volleyball shoes for good, and that’s even backed up by a wee bit of science.
So, it’s not your shoes or even your feet that are producing that dreaded footwear funk. It’s actually tiny little bacteria that like to hang out on your feet because they eat the dead skin cells there and also the moisture from your sweat– we’re basically an all-you-can-eat buffet for ‘em, sadly enough.
Said bacteria, after eating all of those aforementioned goodies then crank out the gag-worthy stank that we’re all unfortunately well familiar with.
When we’re looking to deodorize any kind of smelly shoes, a supes easy way to do that is to go after what makes those smelly bacteria happy, because sad bacteria aren’t going to be stinking up our poor peds (woot woot!).
This smelly bacteria really dos tend to rather enjoy dank, damp places, such as one’s shoes after a volleyball game or practice, and so storing your shoes somewhere they can properly air out is going to A) Dry up the moisture from your leftover sweat that the stinky bacteria would otherwise give its left foot (do bacteria even have feet?) to chow down on, and then B) Leave the smelly bacteria in a now-inhospitable environment where they can’t go about making your shoes the smelliest things this side of the volleyball court.
Now, the whole set of tractioned rubber shoes really ought not be cleaned in any kind of washing machine, BUT that doesn’t mean we can’t take at least a part of the stinky volleyball shoe and give it the proper wash it totally deserves.
We’re talking about the soles here– a thin bit of fabric and (perhaps) foam that just regularly rests directly beneath your feet– that squishy foot-holder that we don’t normally think about, ya’ know?
Really, without the soles of our shoes (stinky or not), walking, running, playing volleyball– basically any kind of athletic, moving activity– would take a real toll on our poor pungent peds.
What kind of sucks about soles though is how truly stinky they can get. All of the smelly bacteria that we chit-chatted about from earlier? Yeah, it basically can camp and hide out in the soles, which sucks for all of us possessing any kind of functioning nose hairs within a sniffing radius.
If you think simply airing out the whole shoe can help the stinky bacteria to hide out from sunlight and fresh moving wind currents, then just try to imagine what the insides of the soles of your shoes can do for stinky bacteria that’s looking to hide out!
There in the soles, it’s musty and dark, and you’re also kind of constantly feeding it more sweat and dead cells (a killer combo once we toss the stank-producing bacteria in the mix for anybody with a functioning nose, sadly enough).
So toss the soles of your stinky volleyball shoes right on into the washing machine, wash them on a delicate cycle, and then make sure that YOU LET THE SHOE SOLES DRY!
That’s very important, you see, because if you let the soles stay moist and stick ‘em right on into your footwear, you’re basically going to just be helping out any bacteria stragglers hang on until you stuff the soles back on into your (now hopefully much fresher) volleyball shoes.
But some soles don’t detach, and as we’ve already established, plenty of volleyball shoes (rank or otherwise) aren’t able to get cleaned via a washing machine any other kind of way– I mean, unless you’re looking to give your poor pungent peds one last, final hurrah. I mean if they’ve got to go, they might as well go clean?
Seriously, don’t do that though. There are plenty of other ways to deodorize volleyball shoes completely, I pinkie-promise you.
Like corn starch, for instance! It’s that absolutely fabulous sauce thickener that we all know and love; the little extra something plenty of our beloved baked goods need to really thicken up properly, besides also making fried chicken extra crunchy (if you didn’t already know that neat little trick, just egg, bread, and batter your chicken wings like you regularly would but make sure that you add just a touch of corn starch into the dry ingredients. You’re totally welcome!).
And beyond all of those wonderful things, corn starch just has to go and be able to effectively deodorize stinky shoes, too (it’s just not fair that some pantry staples get all of the useful tricks and hacks, you know?).
Corn starch, you see, can absorb liquid literally like no tomorrow– well, actually kind of like a sponge, I suppose (in all truth, I actually have no positive idea as to tomorrow’s capabilities regarding water absorption, if you must know).
Easily deodorize stinky volleyball shoes with just get a couple of tablespoons of corn starch– dash ‘em straight on into the shoes and shake everything around to get the insides all evenly coated, then leave everything in overnight or longer if you’d like the corn starch to really pack a pungent punch, and in the morning clap the corn starch right on out of your shoes!
If you’d like to opt-in for an easier clean-up (it would be pretty rad to avoid dusty white footprints everywhere, I totally get it) then simply put the same amount of corn starch into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something like that, and then leave the corn starch-stuffed sock inside of your funky footwear overnight or longer, just the same as before with the other option.
Now, everybody has heard of corn starch (well, at least many of us who tend to enjoy hanging out in the kitchen, which isn’t for everybody, and I totally and most definitely can understand that), but essential oils tend to be in the range of things that some completely love and recommend to all of their friends and acquaintance (even the ones that they just wrote H.A.G.S. in their yearbook, and hardly find themselves capable of recalling the name of said acquaintance), OR you’re that person who’s been living beneath a rock for the past couple of years.
Seriously though, how in the world did you manage to escape the craze which was essential oil? That particular trend was more crazy-popular than chocolate cookies have been for the past centuryish, and more so than even your favorite TLC tv series (any Say Yes to the Dress fans out there?).
Essential oils are basically (or, dare I say it, essentially ;) ) pickle juice. Yep, and I’m actually not kidding, here.
Essential oils have got oil (duh) and then suspended in it are wee tiny bits of plant matter. Lots of people go for things like peppermint, citrus, vanilla, etc. etc. Usually not pickles (those are saved for vinegar, of course), although if you find a pickle-scented essential oil, please do send it my way, as I would certainly be mightily intrigued.
But until then, pick out any other kind of scent for your essential oil (there are an absolute ton of options to pick from, so go wild), and then simply put a few drops straight on into your stinky volleyball shoes to help take care of the footwear funk for good.
Different strokes for different folks, though, am I right? Essential oils may not be your vibe, and that’s totally and most absolutely alright– or you might just not want to cash out the dough on buying something new, which I can also definitely understand.
So this next one hopefully won’t break the bank because it’s something you likely already have on hand (ready to help out your feet)!
That’s right, ma’ dear yet funky friend, it’s time to chit-chat about rubbing alcohol. It’s a bit strongly scented, I know, I know, BUT if it’s a little whiffy to us just think about what it might be able to do to the stinky bacteria still lurking on your tragically terrible-smelling set of stinky volleyball shoes!
Simply get yourself a small bottle of rubbing alcohol (or find one in the back of the medicine cabinet), soak some cotton pads or rounds in the stuff real quick, and then stuff said stuff right on into your smelly shoes.
Keep the rubbing alcohol-soaked cotton in there overnight, but totally feel free to go longer if you’d really like to show that footwear funk what for!
Rubbing alcohol is totally a strongish scent, though, I get that. After you take the rubbing alcohol-soaked cotton out, you may or may not also want to let your pungent peds air out somewhere there’s a good air current (perhaps outside? Or even just by an open window or vent) if you’d like to get everything smelling more neutral again– hey, at least it won’t smell like radioactive cheese (read: your sweat) anymore! That’s for sure a win right there!
An even more simple option for deodorizing stinky shoes quickly (it just keeps on getting better and better) is soap! Now, I’m totally not going to be twisting your arm into scrubbing out your funky footwear (we don’t have the time nor sanity for that kind of a smelly slog, am I right?). For real, don’t you worry yourself over having to suds up any stinky sneakers.
For this option, we’ll actually be using a dry bar of soap. Let me just explain, alright? So when you wash your hands, the water acts as a sort of like mechanical push to get debris off (like stinky bacteria), BUT soap is an extra special kind of amazing because it has the most amazing ability to burst the fatty membrane surrounding bacteria like its own personal armor.
Not having a protective fatty membrane is one heck of a whammy for the stinky bacteria which so love to stink up your poor shoes, so the more soap the better! Even simple dry soap is better than none at all, and thank goodness too because it’s not a whole lot of effort on our parts to use it thusly.
Deodorize stinky volleyball shoes with a dry bar of soap just by sticking it right on into your funky footwear and leaving it overnight. Go for longer if you can (the soap isn’t going to hurt anything, just in case you may have been wondering), and then that’s it! Easy-peasy and you probs already have a few spare bars of soap already on hand, ready to save you and your stinky shoes from olfactory oblivion.
The seventh and final option on our list of deodorizing hacks is LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer: an utterly fabulous shoe spray that can take care of stinky shoes before they can really become any sort of pungent problem for you and the other volleyball athletes in your life.
And it’s not just me who thinks that LUMI is a really extra special sort of fabulous. Over 800 people on Amazon have given an absolutely perfect 5-star rating, leveling out to a solid 4.4-star average for reviews. Buyer “Akdnavin” here calls it the best for athletic feet, and way better than insoles or powder that one might normally put in their shoes, and that also unfortunately make playing sports uncomfortable:
Besides being super effective, LUMI as a company is a small, family-owned business that never tests on animals, makes all of its wonderful products in the United States, and also only sources the highest quality of all-natural ingredients. Badda-bing-badda-boom!
And LUMI works on more than just shoes, too. Got a stinky kitchen sink? Maybe a bathroom that’s a bit funky? Or perhaps a gym bag that could likely count as radioactive with its overpowering level of stank. Just spray LUMI onto any of it!
For how to deodorize smelly volleyball shoes, simply spray LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer directly into each of the shoes and voila! You’re all set to go! Ready to pivot and dive and like an absolute pro on the court without having to worry for a single moment about what your feet might be smelling like.
But let’s round it all up, shall we? One little summary for all of our little strategies for shoe deodorizing.
Airing out stinky volleyball shoes is the first strategy up on our list of quick tricks and hacks to deodorize your funky footwear. The smelly bacteria that we’ve been going on about don’t take too kindly to fresh air and sunshine, which is precisely why we’re going to be storing our (soon-to-not-be) smelly shoes where there’s a good air current and perhaps just a touch of natural light (read: NOT your musty gym bag!).
Washing the soles of those stinky volleyball shoes is also going to be a big help, with just a little bit of assistance from the washing machine. The soles of any kind of shoe are an excellent place for the stinky bacteria to hide out in, as they retain plenty of moisture from our sweat and also the dead skin cells that naturally slough off of our feet. Send the soles through the washing machine and make sure to leave them to DRY OUT after you’re all done (wet soles= stinky soles for later, capeesh?).
Corn starch is what we’ll be summing up next, as we take a look at how easily it can absorb moisture from our sweat and therefore fix footwear funk for good! Just dash in a few tablespoons of the absorbent stuff right on into your shoes or into a sock that you can tie off, and then leave the corn starch inside of your rank shoes at least overnight, or possibly longer if you’ve got the time for it.
Essential oils have bits of lovely-smelling plant matter suspended in them, able to impart said lovely scent right into our smelly sneakers. Pick out a favorite scent (peppermint, citrus, etc. are all quite popular, of course) and then simply place a couple of drops directly into the stinky volleyball shoes in need of stench salvation.
Rubbing alcohol might not smell as great as essential oils do, but it certainly can take care of that (quite possibly radioactive) old cheese smell currently wafting up from your poor stinky shoes. Sop a couple of cotton pads or rounds in some rubbing alcohol, and then stuff them into your stinky volleyball shoes, leaving overnight or longer if you’d like to really put a dent in the stank.
Putting a dry bar of soap into each of your funky footwear can also help to take care of the musty mayhem of said smelly shoes, as the soap can help to break apart the fatty protective membrane protecting individual stinky bacterium. Leave the dry soap bars in overnight but definitely longer should you have the time to spare for your pungent peds.
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is our final option for this here summary on how to quickly and successfully fix your stinky volleyball shoes. It’s a simple shoe spray that can kick stank’s butt with one or two sprays directly into the soles of your shoes, and that’s it! You’re totally ready to go for victory on the volleyball court sans footwear funk and with a delightful waft of lavender and tea tree following you afterward.
And that’s that! All 7 of our options and strategies for you to quickly and easily deodorize stinky volleyball shoes successfully. Any of these strategies or hacks ought to work fine to really make your shoes smell like new again (or better, even), although if you find that the stank is still wafting its way up to your nose again, you can always try any of these efforts to combat smelly shoes in combination. Try two of them at once to see if that works for you, but totally feel free to let yourself go ham.
Go all in with three if you’d like! Combining any of these stank-defying strategies and hacks to deodorize smelly volleyball shoes is simple, quick, and trust me, there’s going to be no better feeling than stepping back out onto the court with your confidence in hand, and your feet free of stink.
]]>I mean, now that’s not to say that the flimsy shoes are like the actual most terrible things ever. You know, they’re sorts of shoes that aren’t good for anything except for being pretty, cost more than a pretty penny, and will make your feet hurt pretty badly should you ever be a big enough buffoon to ever– and I mean ever, like, as in the history of really stupid evers– want to wear those kinds of flimsy things to work. Ok, maybe said flimsy shoes really aren’t that great. I mean seriously, you sneeze and then those darn things scuff– or worse, they could totally just give you the absolute worst blisters, am I right?
But steel-toed work boots have got your back– well, they’ve certainly got your feet, at the very least, and frankly, they do a very swell job of it, typically. They may not be the prettiest of shoes, but steel-toed work boots definitely do what they’re meant to, and that’s to keep your feet in proper order while you clock in and out.
The only problem? While keeping your feet safe and sound, they also tend to harbor just a wee bit of footwear funk– ok, maybe a lot. I mean, it’s not as though you can simply chuck your boots into the nearest available washing machine, so like, what the heck are we even supposed to do?
In order to fix stinky steel-toed work boots, any of these following options can totally work quickly and successfully to get the job done.
Ok, so we’re talking stinky work boots. Now, I know that you read the title of this option, thinking that I must be an utter goose. Like, for real– who the heck in their right mind thinks a freakin’ freezer is going to do anything other than make stinky shoes into unwanted popsicles– shoe-sicles? No, no– let’s just all agree that nobody is asking for shoe-sicles.
A freezer can make a dent in the dank smells wafting up from your stinky steel-toed work boots for reasons best explained by just a wee bit of science– oh yes, we’re dragging it into the malodorous mess that is your funky footwear.
You see, we’re going to be taking a look at the actual source of the sour stench coming from your smelly shoes. That footwear funk? It’s actually from bacteria that live on your feet (and also in your poor shoes, socks, etc. etc.).
Said bacteria eats both the moisture from your sweat and the extra dead skin cells naturally hanging out on your feet, meaning that shoes we wear often (ie the steel-toed kind to work) tend to get more moisture and dead skin cells, and therefore are much more stinky than we’d really like them to be (*read: not smelly at all, please and thank you very much).
But by putting your smelly boots directly into the freezer at least overnight, or perhaps a little bit longer if you’ve got the time, then you’ll be putting a dent in the bad-smelling bacteria’s ability to consume your sweat and produce the pungent punch of odor that we’d all really like to fix for good.
Our next option for how to quickly and successfully deodorize stinky steel-toed boots uses the rather well-known baking ingredient of– you guessed it– baking soda (it’s like you had a segment’s title to read or something…).
That lovely dough-raiser that we all love and adore, making our baked goods fluffier and capable of reaching higher heights than any plebeian mortal carby delicacy ought to have any reasonable right to. Also, um if you’ve never tried it, you’ve simply got to try coating your fried chicken in baking soda (along with the usual seasonings and stuff, of course) in order to make it an extra kind of crazy-good/crispy.
Baking soda, you see, is actually also pretty amazing for how it can easily fix stinky work boots with hardly any kind of effort on your part. What’s way cool about baking soda is how it directly goes after the food source of that stinky bacteria we chatted about earlier. Basically, do ya’ remember how said bacteria eats the moisture from our sweat? So baking soda can absorb that.
What’s pretty great about baking soda (and not so great for the rank bacteria) is that it’ll slurp down the moisture from your sweat, leaving your shoes a much less hospital place for any kind of stank-producing suckers looking for spare sweat to chow down on.
So how do you fix stinky steel-toed boots with baking soda? Simply dash in a couple of tablespoons of the stuff straight on into the smelly shoes, and leave at least overnight, or longer if you think you can spare your shoes for that long. Another (slightly more mess-free) option is to put that same amount of baking soda into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something like that, and then put that sock into your boots for the same amount of time as well.
So let’s start this section off with an easily answerable question: how do you deodorize stinky shoes with coffee? And why the freakin’ heck do we want to soak our feet in it? Isn’t coffee, like, just a toasty lil’ beverage? Ok, maybe I got a wee bit ahead of myself, and that was more than one question, but they’re all totally still easily answerable, I pinkie-promise ya’.
So coffee has nitrogen in it (on top of possessing the seemingly magical ability to wake up the dead– AKA plenty of drowsy folk before the sun is up). Nitrogen, my very dear, yet quite likely smelly reader, is great for absorbing odor. Pretty rad, don’t you think? If not rad, your shoes will at least not be smelling quite so rank.
If we’d like to use coffee to deodorize stinky shoes, we can look in the easy (and perhaps– possibly– just a little relaxing) direction of a coffee foot soak. All you have to do is get two cups of coffee and perhaps a third cuppa just for your lovely yet (soon-to-not-be) stinky self, plus some water (hot or cold doesn’t particularly matter all too much, but definitely go for about 1 gallon here). Soak your feet for about 15 minutes, and then feel free to rinse, dry, and moisturize (if we’re counting this as our own wee little DIY spa day, then we for sure might as well go all out and make it just a touch bougie, am I right?).
Our next item up on easy ways to fix stinky shoes is a crazy little spice that you probs already have in your pantry or kitchen cupboard: cloves.
Not familiar with it? Don’t you worry yourself too much about it– chances are, you’ve probably consumed cloves at least several times already in your lifetime.
Cloves, if you didn’t already know, are a key ingredient in that fabulous mixture popularly known as “pumpkin spice,” which the very concept of is probs considered nigh-on holy to some of you, unless you’ve somehow been living under a rock for the past couple of years (in which case, I’d love to know the address because DANG dude you have literally done it and gone and protected your own bitty little peace like no one else has done before).
Despite pumpkin-spice’s popularity with all of the Starbs-lovers over the past couple of years, you might also just know cloves from gingerbread cookies, which are also flavored by the pungent spice.
Basically, just think of cloves (and pumpkin spice, in general, one might suppose) as all things good that are associated with fall. Got a great-smelling Yankee candle themed for autumn? You could probably thank cloves for that? Delicious and delicately-scented October Krispy Kreme? Cloves strike our nose hairs, once again.
If you want to know how to make your steel-toed boots smell better with cloves, all you need is some porous material (you could use cheesecloth or something like that) or even something more mundane and likely already chilling in the house (or the back of your bureau drawer): a sock.
Put a couple of tablespoons of cloves in whatever material you use, tie it off, then stuff it all straight into your smelly shoes, and then you’ll be wanting to leave everything be for at least overnight, but longer if you can manage without your (hopefully no longer) funky footwear for just a little while longer, then feel free to call it good after that.
But perhaps you’re not entirely sold on using cloves to save your stinky shoes from olfactory oblivion– and I get it, like maybe we’d be better off leaving the pumpkin spice to the brilliant bakers and baristas of the world (the method totally works but, of course, as always you get to decide what you’d like to give a go!).
If that’s you, then let me suggest something easy for ya’ to try– a simple DIY shoe deodorizing spray for your steel-toed boots. This stuff is made up of regular old water and then vinegar– that stuff is going to do literally wonders for your shoes, alright? Hear me out on this, ma’ dear reader.
Ok, so vinegar is supes acidic, which certainly isn’t the greatest for the stinky bacteria that are presently making your poor pungent peds so rank. Vinegar is merely a wee bit– alright, I guess it’s more like very– sour, but to a small way-faring bacterium any kind of vinegar spells out doom for the dank smells wafting up from your shoes.
Use any kind of vinegar, but white vinegar is one of the more common (and therefore cheaper) options and you also probs already have got it stored in your pantry somewhere. I mean, apple cider vinegar should also work just fine, but be careful to test it on a swatch of the fabric of your boots to ensure that it won’t permanently stain anything. White vinegar, ya’ see, ought to go on clear, so that’d be my recommendation in this particular case.
Stir up a concoction of half white vinegar and half water, put it all into a spray bottle and then just give your stinky shoes a good couple of spritzes (paying extra particular attention to the insides) and then wait to let everything completely dry out– this last part with waiting to dry is actually probably the most important, because if you slide on your steel-toed boots before they’ve had a chance to air and dry out, then the water in the DIY deodorizing shoe spray will just go on to feed any remaining bacteria, and the stank will be renewed instead of gone for good– patience is a virtue, am I right? Say it with me now!
It can be difficult to put yourself through all of this hard work just for cleaning stinky shoes that ought to last just one more day without our doing a single darn thing about it, right? Right!? Wrong! Totally and most absolutely wrong, because you really should be wanting to learn how to fix stinky steel-toed boots ASAP for the sake of all of our nose hairs (and sanity), please and thank you very, very much. If you’re bent on going for the easier options here, then this next trick for deodorizing your pungent peds might be right up your alley.
Rotation, ma’ good reader, rotation. Now, I know that it really can get rather tedious having multiple versions of the same sort of shoes, but trust me when I say that even shoes with lots of stank– especially and most particularly shoes with lots of stank to go around– need a good little breather every now again, just like the rest of us mere mortals.
Let’s talk about it all from a sensible perspective, shall we? All of that stinky bacteria we’ve been chit-chatting about? It needs a fairly consistent buffet of moisture (easy to come by, most of the time, thanks to feet just naturally sweating, as they do) and of course the dead skin cells that also are just kind of a natural part of being a human being with feet. Without that steady input of nutrition, the bacteria won’t have the ability to stink up your poor shoes, you see!
Try rotation out with at least two sets of steel-toed work boots, and alternate how often you wear them. The time off in-between wears ought to deprive the stank-producing bacteria of their prime food sources (AKA you and your poor pungent peds), and in the long run, rotation ought to work to ameliorate the footwear funk!
Rotation may be simple, but LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is simple on steroids. For real, this stuff is about as easy as it gets when it comes to quick fixes for shoe deodorizing.
Haven’t heard of it? No worries, as over 1000 reviewers on Amazon who have tried out LUMI have given it a perfect 5-star review (averaging out at an overall 4.4-star rating) and would like to tell you all about it. One such reviewer, a certain “MamaKo99” who said that she just loved all of the LUMI sprays they’ve tried, sprays her own shoes after long 12 hr shifts at the hospital and her husband sprays his steel-toed boots, and that other sprays simply didn’t work for them:
Beyond what the good people of Amazon have to say, LUMI itself is simply a rather fabulous company. They make sure to only use the highest quality of all-natural ingredients, never ever (and they really truly mean ever) test on animals, all of their products are made in the United States, PLUS the company is a small, family-owned business.
What’s also pretty awesome about LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is that it works to fix stinky smells beyond what’s wafting up from your shoes. Got a funky kitchen sink or garbage can? Perhaps a smelly bathroom? Spray LUMI and fix all of those things (and more!) with ease!
All you have to do to use LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer to easily deodorize your steel-toed boots is spray it directly on into the shoe, and then you’re all set to go! That’s it! Spray away, and then you’re totally good to go.
So let’s get down to business and go over all of these easy ways to deodorize stinky shoes at least one more time because I don’t know about all y’all but as for me, myself, and I a quick little summary is always just the thing after one has had an absolute butt-ton of information spouted off at them (even if the said deluge of information was well-sprinkled with *the most fabulous of puns ;) ).
So here we go– off to summarize everything you need to know to deodorize steel-toed boots successfully!
The frigid option of freezing your shoes overnight or longer is the very first option up on our list of methods to fix stinky shoes with. The bacteria that originally produce all of our footwear funk doesn’t take too well to the hypothermic temperatures, and so as a result their ability to produce funk is severely curtailed when we stick ‘em on into the freezer overnight or even longer if you can manage it.
Baking soda works to easily fix stinky steel-toed boots by drawing out the moisture that’s soaked into the fabric of your smelly shoes and would normally go into feeding the bad-smelling bacteria, but instead now that moisture will get clapped out along with the baking soda once all is said and done. Simply dust in a couple of tablespoons of baking soda (or for easier cleanup you can totally just put the baking soda into a sock or something, tie it off with a rubber band, and stuff that into your shoes), and then leave said baking soda in your stinky boots for at least overnight, but longer will definitely help us all out a bit more; you’ll know that the baking soda can’t slurp up any moisture once it’s started to clump up, either way.
A good old coffee foot soak is just going to take you 2 cups of coffee and then one gallon of water (temperature doesn’t matter altogether too much– I’d just make it comfortable, whatever that may be for ya’). Soak your feet in the coffee/water mixture for about 15 minutes, and that’ll do ya’!
Cloves are a fabulous scent that COULD be what your shoes are smelling like, instead of the present radioactive cheesy scent that is an actual and most total hazard to good and honest nose hairs everywhere. In order to use cloves to make stinky shoes smell better, simply put a few tablespoons of the stuff into some porous material (like cheesecloth, for example, or even a sock ought to work just fine), tie it all off with a rubber band, and then stuff the secured cloves straight on into your stinky boots. Leave it all to hang out overnight, but longer if you’d like the cloves to really make your (soon-to-be previously) stinky shoes smell AMAZING!
Or perhaps a quick and easy-to-make DIY deodorizing spray is more along the lines of what you’re looking for. Mix up one part water and then one part white vinegar (or whatever you’ve got in the pantry– apple cider ought to work as well, just make sure that whatever vinegar you go for doesn’t stain the material of your boots). Spritz the shoes, and make sure to pay extra attention to the insides!
Then rotating between several sets of steel-toed boots will give your poor stinky shoes a chance to breathe and the bacteria a chance to skedaddle between wears. Easy-peasy, alright?
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the final (and perhaps the most easy to use) strategy on this list of methods to fix stinky shoes. Simply spray it straight on into your shoes once or twice and that’s it!
That’s that folks! 7 simple tricks for fixing stinky steel-toed boots! Try any of these quick hacks for deodorizing work shoes quickly and with every kind of ease!
]]>It’s not that one has to know how to ski or board around where I live– we just happen to have easy access to a plentiful supply of easy-to-navigate roads, the nearby mountain highway system, etc. etc. All of this kind of just makes skiing and boarding something that is also easily accessible and enjoyable in a wide variety of manners to a wide variety of folk.
You’ve got the little kids bumbling between their parents’ skis and also the brave (and in all honesty, probably very fit) folk who trek up the mountains on foot just to ski down it. We certainly can’t leave out the young adults who have yet to figure out speed limits (or their own literal limits) when it comes to shredding the slopes, or perhaps the older folk who come out nigh-on every day to enjoy the frosty delights of their chosen sport.
But all of those people (and perhaps… well, let’s be real here– likely you, given that you’re reading this here article) have at least one thing in common– the ostentatiously olfactory disaster that is their smelly shoes.
Learn how to deodorize stinky ski boots easily with any of these options, and then hit the fresh powder without any fear of a funky fiasco!
I’m sure you’ve at least heard of corn starch, given its multifaceted place in the culinary world, even if you don’t know why or how it could possibly help us fix the issue of our stinky shoes for good. I mean, corn starch helps to thicken sauces, puddings, pie fillings and the like, all on top of being a fabulous secret little ingredient for making fried chicken just a *wee bit* crunchier (trust me on this one!).
But corn starch can totally do way more than that! As if it weren’t already enough to save our sorry butts in the kitchen, corn starch can also save our hypothermic hineys when our ski boots are simply way too rank!
It’s all thanks to some pretty rad science. You see, the funk from your footwear isn’t from your shoes or your feet (*feel free to gasp dramatically*), but is in fact from bacteria that live on your shoes and also your feet; they consume the moisture from your sweat (hence why shoes get stinkier the sweatier they are) and also the dead skin cells naturally found on your feet.
BUT thankfully corn starch can help to absorb plenty of the moisture from your sweat, leaving the stinky bacteria without a majorly important source of food (woot woot!!).
Simply dust a couple of tablespoons of corn starch directly into your ski boots or, if you’re hoping for an easier cleanup, place the same amount of corn starch in a sock and tie it off with a rubber band or something like that and then stick the sock into your shoe.
Leave the corn starch in your ski boots at least overnight, but you can for sure go for a bit longer if you’ve got the time to spare to really let the corn starch work its drying and stank-defying magic.
Another option we have for how to fix stinky ski boots is simple charcoal!
Unsure how familiar y’all already are with this literal wonder, but if you aren’t, then let me be the very first to inform you of its shoe deodorizing delights.
Charcoal, you see, is essentially just carbon that’s been superheated to a literal crisp– at its most basic, charcoal is totally just the stuff you get at the end of a rad BBQ or even a sweet s’mores night around a cozy campfire.
Now, a BBQ is one... shall we say... unique all-natural route that you can take, but you certainly won’t find me trying to make discount charcoal around my own wee little bonfire. Oh no– as for me, myself, and I we’ll be using the ready-to-use tablets of charcoal found at many a local grocery store.
Said tablets are usually just superheated bamboo, coconut husks, and what-have-you. The base material isn’t all too important for those of us looking to make our stinky ski boots smell better, because for all kinds of charcoal, what happens during the baking process is what’s important.
During said super-heating process tiny little pores form on the surface, and those pores can help to absorb shoe stank, leaving your ski boots smelling better than ever.
All you have to do to use charcoal to deodorize stinky shoes for good is put it into a small wee envelope (putting the stuff directly into your boots may stain the material, you see), and then leave those little envelopes in there overnight, or even longer if you can manage it.
And since charcoal is literally just *that* amazingly fabulous, we’re going to be chit-chatting about a second option to utilize the rad natural shoe deodorizer.
Just like the previous option, we’ll be using charcoal tablets to accomplish our end-goal of fresh-smelling ski boots, but for this one specifically we’ll be going after the stinky bacteria just hanging out on our poor feet.
It kind of sucks, but don’t you worry too much about it– literally all human beings, if they sweat (which, I would tentatively brave to guess, is most of us) have said bacteria.
It’s alright though, given as a nice (but quick!) charcoal foot soak can take care of said bacteria lickidty-split!
Give your poor pungent shoes a break, and also, ok wouldn’t a good foot soak be just lovely after a ski day? I know that personally I love nothing more than a long, toasty bath to relax all of my muscles after a good day of fresh powder, overpriced (and messy!) chili fries in the lodges, and all of the good things that come with a good day in the mountains.
Not that a charcoal foot soak is for the whole body– we’re just focusing on the stinky feet, as we get ourselves a tub and fill it with just about 2 gallons of water (temperature doesn’t matter too terribly much– I would just make sure that it’s comfortable), then you’ll want to empty the contents of a couple of charcoal tablets directly into the water, and give it all a good swirl before soaking your feet for at least 20 minutes. Finish off your spa day by rinsing everything off, and then you get to call it a (stank-free) day!
While we’re on the topic of foot soaks, let’s talk about one with white vinegar– oh yes, the tangy, acerbically biting stuff that you probably are only familiar with because of all of those extra fabulous elementary school science fair projects involving spectacularly messy volcanoes composed of baking soda and our very favorite acidic pantry staple.
White vinegar actually works for foot soaks because of how acidic it is. Acid and stinky bacteria don’t exactly mix, which helps us out in the sense of how the enemy (vinegar, whose sour scent you may or may not be a huge fan of, just quite yet) of my enemy (ALWAYS the stinky bacteria) is my friend (white vinegar, once again).
I know that vinegar can kind of come off as a super strong scent, but it’ll be diluted by water and plus, ma’ dear reader, you can always simply rinse your feet off really well after the fact, if you’re still a wee bit concerned.
I’d recommend using plain old white vinegar, as the stuff surely won’t stain. White vinegar is clear, you see, unlike apple cider vinegar or even balsamic vinegar– although why oh why you’d ever want to use such an expensive item on a foot soak– even if it is for the saving of your ski boots– I certainly wouldn’t know.
So get yourself a tub, fill it with one part white vinegar and then two parts water (once again, the temperature of the water doesn’t really matter– just make it comfy), and then soak your feet for at least 30 minutes before thoroughly rinsing everything off.
Our next option for how to fix stinky ski boots actually involves coffee– a drink which plenty of skiers are consuming copious amounts of as they make their way up the hill.
My family either always tried to go super early to beat the early morning traffic, or if we were running late (thanks to somebody that *totally* wasn’t yours truly, because I am always a punctual angel I’ll have you know) then we’d just have to sit in traffic and suffer. Needless to say, we typically went out early, much to my non-morning self’s dismay and utter horror.
To combat that early ski day morning fiasco of being tired while heading up a crowded mountain freeway, many people tend to go for a good cup of Joe.
Now, when I say coffee, I’m not exactly talking about those fancy and quite likely sugary Starbs drinks– oh no, we’re talking about the plain old coffee grounds. Coffee, you see, contains caffeine (quite a shocker to the lot of you, I’m *utterly certain*), which in of itself contains nitrogen, and you see nitrogen does this really rad thing known as “adsorption.”
Now that’s AD-sorption, ma’ dear yet stinky reader. “Absorption” is totally different, alright? “Adsorption,” if you would care to know, is way cool phenomenon where gas and liquid (so, basically the rank smell wafting up from your boots or also just the moisture from the OG sweat itself) adheres to the coffee grounds in a sort of film, and then you can just chuck the coffee grounds and be done with the stank for good!
So get yourself a couple of tablespoons of dry coffee grounds and stick them directly into your stinky ski boots or, alternatively, you can also just get a sock and stuff said sock with those coffee grounds instead (tie it off afterward). Leave the dry coffee grounds in there for at least overnight, but longer will work even better.
But if you’d really like to make extra doubly-certain that you know how to make stinky ski boots smell better (like way better) then I’m going to just recommend that you use LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer.
It’s this supes easy-to-use and all-natural shoe spray that works GREAT for something like that hardcore sweaty stank emanating up from your frigid (yet sadly funky) footwear.
And you don’t have to believe just me– in fact, you can believe the over TEN freakin’ THOUSAND reviewers on Amazon who gave LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer a perfect 5-star rating, giving it an overall average of 4.4 star-rating. Amazon reviewer Perthenia Eilers here says that while they were at first somewhat skeptical, they took a chance in order to save their running, climbing, AND ski boots, and have in due course been rather pleased with the great-smelling results:
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is their best-selling product (so you know it’s good), and ok, the company itself is also pretty cool as well. LUMI doesn’t test on animals (*the sound of gospel choirs swells), only uses the highest quality of all-natural ingredients (*sets off some rather rad fireworks), and makes quite literally all of their products in the United States (*cue all of– and I truly do mean all of– the confetti).
In order to make your stinky ski boots smell like lemony and eucalyptus goodness just directly spray LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer right on into the ski boots, and then you’re done! You can ski the slopes and smell absolutely and most totally fabulous as you do so.
But let's just do a quick runthrough of all of the options we’ve got here in this article, because it always pays to have options when it comes to saving our pungent peds– plus, ok here’s a quick little trick for all y’all out there, but if you really want to make sure that your shoes never smell bad again, you can totally and most absolutely double, or even triple up (if you’ve got the time and wherewithal to do so) when it comes to utilizing any and all of the methods for how to easily deodorize stinky ski boots for good.
So beginning with corn starch, we’ll be wanting to dust in just a few tablespoons of the stuff straight on into the olfactory offenders (*read: your smelly boots), or, if you’d like to accomplish super great-smelling shoes without the mess, then you can also totally just put the corn starch in a sock, and then tie that sock off before putting it into the funky footwear. Either way, we’ll just want to leave the corn starch inside of the shoes for at least overnight, but you can absolutely feel free to go for longer in order to really show the stank who’s boss (it’s you, btw).
Charcoal is another super stank-defying ingredient that we can use to make our ski boots smell like anything other than radioactive cheese that’s been microwaved several times and then reconstituted in the deepest and most pungent of sewers. Charcoal, you see, can absorb odors, and all we have to do in order to use charcoal to fix stinky shoes is get ourselves a few charcoal tablets (take a peek into your local grocer– plenty tend to have them), then stick the charcoal into a tiny envelope, and then stick that envelop into the stinky shoe. Leave the charcoal for at least overnight, but like the last option, it won’t hurt to just let it hang out in there for a little while longer if you can help it.
Charcoal stars again in this next one, this time in a bonafide charcoal foot soak. Think of this one as a sort of DIY spa day, where you get a two-for-one sort of special for a warm (if you so choose) foot bath to relax those poor used and abused muscles and then doubly get to remove the odor from stinky ski boots, all in one! Simply put about 2 gallons of water into a tub (any temperature will work just fine but– well, I mean, a warm foot bath would probs feel LOADS better on sore feet that have been crammed into those uncomfy ski boots all day, at least if you ask me), and then dash into the water the contents of a couple of those charcoal tablets. Swirl everything together and then soak your feet in there for a good 20 minutes and then you’re all set to go!
We’ve got another terrific foot soak for ya’ in this next option for how to easily fix stinky shoes for good, this time with a plain old white vinegar foot soak. The acidic vinegar can easily take care of the stink (and many of our nose hairs in the process, but at least it’s better than the old cheese smell, am I right?). If you’re worried about the sour tang of vinegar sticking to your skin, I wouldn’t worry too terribly much about it, given as you can simply rinse your feet extra thoroughly after everything is said and done, and after that at least most of the sour smell ought not be a problem. Fill a tub with two parts water (once again, any temperature will work just fine, although why the freakin’ heck you would want to do an ice bath after a whole day of skiing through frosty weather conditions and smooth, fluffy powder, well, I certainly wouldn’t hazard a guess), and then add one parts white vinegar to the water. Now, I suppose, in a pinch at least, you could totally use any kind of vinegar, but the plebian white variety is clear and shouldn’t stain your pungent peds, and as a bonus white vinegar also tends to be a pantry staple that’s already chilling in your kitchen cabinets (we’ve always got to love the options that will save us some dough, am I right?). Leave your feet to soak in the vinegar mixture for about half an hour, and then rinse everything off extra well so as to swirl the bad shoe smell AND the sharp vinegar wafts down the drain.
Dry coffee grounds are our next super-star for sticking it to stinky shoes everywhere, as it uses this fun little trick known as “adsorption,” (once again for all of y’all with the memory of a guinea pig– kettle meet pot, as I too have a most horrid memory– “adsorption” is quite different from “absorption”). “Adsorption,” you see, is where stinky smells and moisture adhere to (see what they did there?) to the coffee grounds in a thin sort of film, and then you can just chuck said grounds and be done with the dank smells! Toss a couple of coffee grounds right on into your shoes or into a sock that you’ve tied off (and then put that sock into your stinky shoes) and leave the coffee grounds in for at least overnight, or perhaps longer if you think you’ve got the time in between ski runs.
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is our final, and perhaps most simple one on the list, as all we have to do in order to fix stinky ski boots with this one option is spray it right on into the pungent peds once or twice– that’s it! That’s quite literally everything you have to do in order to make smelly boots smell better once and for all.
And that’s our six options, ma’ dear (and hopefully no longer pungent) reader! Use any or all of them in conjunction in order to deodorize smelly ski boots with ease and with plenty of success.
]]>When I was 7 one of my best friends introduced me to lacrosse– I had previously only ever engaged in the world of sports through my juvenile soccer team, but she assured me that lacrosse was by far the superior athletic pursuit. She told me all about how one game could be wildly different from the next, and how she had all of this really rad equipment that she got to use– I had only gotten to use the soccer ball, and she got a whole stick! It seemed to me somewhat magical, almost like a witch’s broom, and I was very nearly convinced to try it out– very nearly, but just not quite.
I was still just a touch intimidated by the whole idea– particularly after she talked about how hard it was to keep her shoes from smelling like radioactive cheese sprayed ad nauseam by a surfeit of skunks. I mean, when you’re 7, there are certainly much more significant matters in life to attend to than stinky shoes, especially when you only have to worry about wearing those shoes a few times a week for practice and then for weekend games.
But it really isn’t too much of a bother to deodorize smelly lacrosse shoes, I pinkie-promise. Any of these following 7 options are sure to help out, and it’ll hardly be any effort at all on your part.
So the phrase “airing your shoes out” probably makes them sound just a wee bit like laundry or something, but I pinkie-promise that it’s much more simple (and way less hands-on than that). “Airing” out your lacrosse shoes is quite simply that: airing ‘em out. Literally just storing them somewhere sunny and arid.
It all comes down to some pretty rad science about your rank shoes. You see, it actually isn’t your shoes, nor is it your actual feet themselves that are producing the notorious footwear funk. Said stank is, in most actual and kind of unfortunate fact, bacteria which lives on your feet (and also in your shoes) that are the responsible and odorous party.
See, the aforementioned bacteria live off of the moisture from the sweat on your feet and also from the spare dead skin cells that also just happen to be on your feet– seriously, your peds and the bacteria kind of just make for the most perfect pungent pair. Not the greatest news to hear (well– it would be read in this case, I suppose), but there you have it.
That’s why airing our shoes out is literally so stinkin’ (*pun intended– always) important. Giving your lacrosse shoes time to dry out after you use them will in essence deprive the stinky bacteria of one of their major food sources, which is great for all of us with a poor, used, and abused sense of smell
So after you’re done with your lacrosse shoes for the day, simply make sure to store them in a sunny and/or arid spot so as to make sure that they have the chance to quite literally clear the air– and whatever you do, do NOT store your stinky shoes in your enclosed gym bag! Do you want radioactive levels of funk? Do you really just hate your nose hairs that much? For real, air ‘em out– don’t make the footwear funk worse than it already is, you hear?
Another simple tip for success in how to fix stinky shoes easily is just replacing the soles. You know, that soft pad of fabric or perhaps foam between your feet and the rest of the shoe? It’s essentially a sponge for all kinds of bacteria and is thus a literal haven for the rank bacteria to set up shop in. I mean, they’re safe from air and temperature shifts what with your feet in the way, and as a result, the soles tend to harbor plenty of sweat for them to chow down on in the interim even when you're not wearing said shoes.
And you want to know what’s freakin’ great about soles? They’re easy to just take out and chuck! Maybe straight on into a fire, a garbage can, or– if the means are at your present disposal– launch 'em straight into orbit with all possible and very much overdue haste.
Basically, option numero uno here is to simply replace the soles– I mean, I am all about trying to reuse where one can (my wallet would hamstring me otherwise), but sometimes the stinky shoes’ sole is so malodorous that at that point it’s practically pointless to try and save it– hey, at least it’s better/cheaper than chucking the whole shoe? In buying new soles just make sure that you get the proper size and fit so that the replacements are snug in your (hopefully no longer) stinky lacrosse shoes.
Merely washing the soles (if you think you can save them) can also help to deodorize shoes quickly– just a PSA to make sure that you let those soles dry completely before shoving them back into your shoes, because if you’ll care to recall, the bacteria happen to love spare moisture, and sticking soggy soles straight into your shoes will only give fodder to the stink.
And speaking of soles (if you’d like to perhaps double up on your options to easily fix your stinky lacrosse shoes, that is), one only needs soap to save the day.
Of course, I wouldn’t be suggesting sitting down and literally just scrubbing your funky footwear with some good old-fashioned suds and water– no heckin’ way is there time for that kind of de-stanking shenaniganry– oh no. I’m merely suggesting the usage of a dry bar of soap. Well, preferably two, given as that is the typical given number of podiatric appendages (stinky or not).
You see, when washing hands or literally just anything, the water acts as a kind of shove to force dirt or whatever off– water can be pretty rad mechanical force, and it’ll take said debris down the drain with it.
Soap specifically, however, bursts apart the fatty membrane surrounding and protecting our little bacteria (not really) friends. So, no protective membrane, no bacteria, and no footwear funk!
Like I said earlier, however, we won’t merely be scrubbing stinky shoes in our valiant attempts to save them from olfactory oblivion– that’s totally way too much effort when we could instead be using a simply dry bar of soap to accomplish the same end goal– removing the foot odor from your lacrosse shoes.
So get two plain old bars of soap, stick ‘em on into your smelly shoes when they’re not in use, and you’re well on your way to living your best stank-free life! Leave the soap in there as long as you can, but at least overnight in order to achieve the best results.
Salt will work to directly take away one of the rank bacteria’s primary sources of nutrients– all of the moisture in your smelly shoes that’s simply a leftover from your sweat.
I mean lacrosse is a literal sport, and it’s totally and completely natural that your shoes might be a little sweaty after any kind of practice or game– that’s not what we’re going to be worrying about here.
Salt naturally is able to sop up moisture like an actual sponge. I mean, just think back to the last time you were at the beach– the waves crashing, the immense crush of sunscreened bodies, all topped by the tang of a salty gust of wind blowing off from the water– do you remember the chapped lips? Or perhaps just the frizzy hair?
Some of that obviously has to do with the humidity typical at these climes, for sure, but salt also plays a tiny little part. Salt dries up moisture, causing some of these things, but it also makes fixing stinky shoes for good a (sea) breeze!
Get yourself some salt (any kind will work, but I’d personally opt for whatever variety is easiest on your wallet– no need to season your stinky shoes with the good stuff! Salt is salt, in this case)-- at least a couple of tablespoons, and put it all directly into your shoes.
If you’re worried about an easier cleanup, just put the same amount of salt into some socks, tie ‘em off with a rubber band or something, and then for BOTH options leave the salt inside of your shoes at least overnight, but longer if you can manage, although the salt won’t really be quite so effective once it’s started to clump up (that’s what happens when it absorbs the moisture from your sweat, and can’t really take in any extra).
But sometimes all we want to do is go for the simple approach, especially when the sports season is already in full swing, and there’s hardly a moment to breathe (in the funky and not-so-fresh tang of your pungent peds), much less remember anything important that you’ve got to do, such as those pesky stinky lacrosse shoes that you’ve simply got to get around to deodorizing one of these epochs.
Now, any of the options on this list for how to fix stinky shoes can totally help you with that, but essential oils are going to be… well, essentially one of the speedier stratagems. Indeed, the most difficult part of using essential oils to deodorize funky footwear is probs just picking out your favorite scent beforehand.
If you aren’t already totally and most completely familiar with the phenomenon that is essential oils (trust me, you’re not alone– that was myself just a small while ago) then you’re in for a treat, because this stuff is actually kind of fabulous.
Think of essential oils as kind of comparable to pickle juice– yes, ya’ read that right– pickle juice. Essential oils are basically just minute bits of organic plant matter suspended in oil (not vinegar, I’ll concede), and so when you use that oil on something else (your rank runners, for a prime and sort of pressing example) the lovely scent of whatever plant bits are suspended in that oil can be transferred pretty simply to the item in question.
It’s also kind of nice how the carrier oil can literally stretch the reaching and staying power of just those small bits of plants– a little will absolutely go a long way with this stuff.
All you have to do in order to deodorize stinky shoes with essential oils is pick first pick a favorite scent (many people tend to go for a fresh peppermint, citrus, or even a bright floral one), dab a couple of drops onto a few cotton rounds or pads, and then stuff those directly into your stinky shoes. Leave overnight or even longer if you’d prefer, and that’s that!
But then again, it sure would be great if we could just use a method that’s a little more familiar. I mean, essential oils are fine and all, but how about the options that are just that plain, down-to-earth kind of sensible? Don’t get me wrong, I’ll use the essential oils and all, but it’d be kind of rad if I already had a good foundation for the hows and whys of the matter.
And that’s going to be where your own freezer can come in! If you can remember those bad-smelling bacteria we chatted about earlier, we’re going to be using the common household freezer to chill and turn those little buggers into (hopefully) not-so-smelly popsicles that shan’t be bothering you again!
The smelly bacteria normally produce the funk that invades your poor footwear when all of the conditions are just right– moisture (from your sweat), spare dead skin cells (of which there is typically a natural abundance on one’s feet), and warmish conditions (which is also not typically a problem, especially for athletes).
In order to use a freezer to fix smelly shoes for good, all you’ve got to do is first stick the shoes into a bag or perhaps even just a pillowcase (just something to separate the shoes from the ice cream and all of the spare frozen casseroles, am I right?), and then stick all of that directly into your freezer. Leave overnight, but go for longer in order to achieve the best possible results.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is probably going to be the easiest go-to item on this list, given how easy it is to use and also how quickly it can successfully restore your stinky shoes to their prior not-so-pungent glory.
And it’s not just me who thinks that it’s fabulous (although why you wouldn’t trust me implicitly, ma’ dear reader, I certainly wouldn’t know). Just take a look at any or all of the absolutely perfect 600 5 star ratings on Amazon (averaging out to a solid 4.6 stars). One such reviewer– an Antony E. Faase– raved over how LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder may be natural but is still totally solid enough to pack a punch for athletes:
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is one of the best products out there for preventing odor because of how it so effectively prevents moisture in one’s sadly stinky shoes. It uses ingredients that are– quite simply put– positively marvelous for one’s skin, for example zinc oxide, kaolin clay, bentonite clays (all of the good clays, it would seem), etc. etc.
LUMI is also a super freakin’ fantastic small, family-owned business that doesn’t test on animals, uses only the highest quality all-natural ingredients in each of their products, and produces literally everything in the USA.
You can save your funky footwear from their presently dank doom with a couple quick taps of LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder directly into the lacrosse shoes. That’s it! You’ve done all that you need to do in order to hit the playing field smelling great and playing even better!
Simple, and takes no more than a few moments on our part. Thanks to LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder stinky lacrosse shoes shall be a thing of the (smellier) past.
But let’s just run through all seven of the options, alright? I’m always down for a good summary, given that I have the short-term memory of half a gerbil, myself.
Airing out your stinky lacrosse footwear is totally one of the most simple options for quickly and easily deodorizing shoes out there. Simply make sure to store your shoes in a sunny and arid spot after use so that they can properly dry out. Outside works perfectly well, but if it’s inside, just go for somewhere near a window perhaps– as long as you don't put your stinky cleats inside of your zippered-up gym bag– that would actually be the freakin’ worse (for real, if you even care a smidgen for your schnozz, literally do NOT do that).
Replacing or washing the soles is also pretty easy to do, and is kind of a really great “reset” of sorts when it comes to your lacrosse shoes. Simply swap out the old stinky sole for a new one, or if it’s machine-washable, send it through the wash (it always pays to double-check these things, so make sure that you take a look at the shoes’ care instructions). If you’re going for the washing route, make sure to air-dry the soles completely afterward, or else you’ll simply be exasperating the shoes’ mephitic malady.
Placing dry bars of soap in the sole will also work well in our efforts to fix stinky shoes for good. Simply get two (one for each shoe, obviously), and stick them straight on into your smelly shoes as soon as you take them off your feet– no time like the present to deodorize shoes permanently with these quick little tips for success! Leave the soap in for as long as possible or at least overnight; although longer will certainly help us out a bit more.
Salt is also an absolutely fabulous option that we’ve got to help to deodorize your stinky lacrosse shoes, as it’s great for absorbing all of the moisture from your sweat that the stinky bacteria simply love to feed and make extra pungent stank off of. Stick a couple of tablespoons of salt directly into your funky footwear or put the salt into a tied-off sock that you’ll leave in the shoe– at least overnight, but longer if you can. Once the salt has started to clump you’ll know that it’s time to put some fresh salt in there.
Essential oils work well to be both simple and effective in how they fix smelly shoe problems for good. All you have to do is dab a few drops of your favorite scented oil onto a couple of cotton rounds or pads, and then put those into your lacrosse shoes overnight or you can feel free to leave ‘em in there a wee bit longer should you so choose.
Freezers can definitely work wonders on putting a dent in the stinky bacterias’ plans for world (and apparent shoe) domination (given as the smelly little suckers know no bounds!) and all we have to do is first, stick the stinky shoes into a bag or pillow case, and then place that directly into your freezer. The cold temps ought to put a stop once and for all in the shoes’ stank, as you leave them in there overnight or just a bit longer in order to freeze out the bacteria.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is the last super amazing strategy up on our list, as we simply tap in just a little bit of this uber powerful and effective product straight on into your stinky shoes, and that’s it! All you need in order to deodorize stinky lacrosse shoes in one super simple and rad powder.
You’re welcome to use any of these seven easy fixes for smelly shoes, but also totally feel free to use any of them together! Triple up, if you’d like. Anything we’ve got to do to get your lacrosse shoes smelling better than ever! Fix stinky lacrosse shoes easily and quickly with whichever or with however many strategies you’d like!
]]>But my best friend was rather tall and had been playing basketball since before even kindergarten. I watched on in wonder as she won game after game of “H.O.R.S.E.” Point after point sank into the netted hoop with a solid swoosh, followed by the deafening ecstatic cheers from her teammates.
But being great at basketball did come with its own drawbacks. Almost daily, my poor tall bestie had to listen to the same question over and over again: “Oh, so you’re tall– you must play basketball!” Well, yes, she did, but that didn’t make the question any less tiresome.
On top of that, lots of long Saturday tournaments were endured, paired with increasing pressure to try out for some more exclusive private teams. Then beyond those things, basketball just by itself was hard!
It came with all kinds of downsides, like sore feet, scratched skin from over-zealous opponents at games (elementary-aged kids can be really competitive), crazy bruises from falling, and then there are the stinky shoes.
ACK no matter what she did, she always felt like her shoes were heckin’ bent on being noxious little monsters, and that there was literally nothing she could do to fix ‘em.
But there’s no need to let all of that stop you from playing the game that you love (at least the stinky shoes– for everything else you may need some more nuanced research). Here are all the ways to fix stinky basketball shoes easily and successfully:
Rubbing alcohol is the first item up on our list of simple ways to get rid of smelly shoes, and I know that it sounds like an odd one, but first let me explain, alright? It isn’t simply a magic wand we can use to smack the footwear funk into yesterday with a quick bibbity-bobbity-boop, BUT with a little science, everything becomes a little clearer (and definitely a whole lot less stinky).
So you know your smelly basketball shoes? Turns out that it’s not your sweaty feet that are making them rank, okay? Well, maybe it's a little bit your feet, but it’s totally not directly your poor pungent peds’ fault.
It’s actually the fault of bad-smelling bacteria that like to live on your feet, and also thus in all of your shoes! And socks, and slippers, and basically anywhere that they can get their microbial little hands on the moisture from your sweat and the dead skin cells (usually from your feet)-- all of that is their preferred format of nutrition.
Ya, we’re basically involuntarily feeding the bacteria that make our shoes smell– not great, I know– which is where something like rubbing alcohol can be super helpful! Soak a few cotton rounds or pads with it, and then simply layer the sole of your shoes with ‘em. For best results, leave the soaked cotton rounds in overnight, but if it’s not the middle of the basketball season and you won’t be needing your shoes for a bit then go for longer, that way the rubbing alcohol can really help us to clean up the musty mess with ease.
Baking soda can also help us out here, making it super easy to fix stinky shoes by absorbing the moisture (*read: your sweat) before it has a chance to become chow for the stank-producing bacteria. It just slurps it up like a sponge and keeps it from the wee little grubbers, and in turn allows you to go be a basketball-pro sans footwear funk.
Oh yes, baking soda, AKA the magical ingredient that’s always good for helping to give your baked goods a little extra oomph in the oven when your culinary masterpieces are trying to reach for the sky with their delicate and fluffy crumb. I mean, certainly, baking soda can help our baked goods rise, but trust me when I say that they’re also game for a little extra something.
It’s actually super easy to deodorize your stinky basketball shoes with baking soda, and the method is pretty hands-off as well (thank goodness, because with multiple sport practices and long tournaments seemingly every other week, I’m sure that time is sort of a precious commodity).
Simply dust the insides of your shoes with a couple of tablespoons of baking soda, give ‘em a good shake to evenly coat everything, and then leave overnight. Just clap out the shoes when you need them again, and you’re done! For easier clean-up, you could also put the baking soda into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something, and then leave that sock in your stinky shoe overnight– or longer, just to give the baking soda a little extra time to work its shoe deodorizing magic.
Another quick and simple way to go about deodorizing stinky basketball shoes is simply making sure that you’re always wearing clean socks. Now, I totally know that this option might come across as a bit obvious, and perhaps even just a little trite, but believe me when I say that it’s totally one of the most successful strategies for combating footwear funk.
You know how your feet and shoes are (an unwitting) home to all of that stinky bacteria? Plenty of it gets transferred to your daily set of socks, which means that those socks, which have direct contact with both the source of the moisture the bacteria so love to eat, and your poor shoes, are a practically perfect conduit for the bacteria and its preferred food source. *le sigh*
BUT the key to stopping that funky freeflow is making sure that you’re always wearing dry and fresh socks! Socks sans moisture can actually act as barriers between your natural sweat and your basketball shoes, helping to prevent pungent peds!
Simply make sure to always be wearing dry and clean socks, even if that means switching out throughout the day– keeping a spare set in your gym bag really isn’t going to be much trouble, I pinkie promise, especially compared with having to lug around a stinky set of shoes.
Sweat-wicking socks are especially useful to us with this, as they’ll be better able to keep the sweat/moisture away from your shoes, although any kind of sock will do, just so long as you remember to switch out sweaty socks for dry socks throughout the day, as needed.
Salt can also help us to combat sweaty (and thus rank) moisture in your stinky basketball shoes. I want you to think back to the last time that you had the chance to visit the ocean. Lush, rolling waves crashing into the shoreline. Seagulls squawking indignantly at passersby. The salty wind chapping your lips– remember all of that now?
Salt is notorious for not just seasoning our tangy potato chips and favorite beef jerky, but also for being able to draw moisture out of things (like from our skin at the beach– hence the chapped lips at the beach). This is great news for our basketball shoes that are naturally going to get exposed to just a little bit of sweat after practice or games, and would otherwise also have to deal with the bacteria chowing down on said sweat, and producing their notorious stank.
Just like with the baking soda option, in order to use salt to deodorize stinky basketball shoes all we have to do is dust in a few tablespoons and give ‘em a good shake to evenly coat everything. If you’re worried about cleanup (which is totally understandable– there’s literally no spare time when the sports season is well underway) then simply put the salt into socks instead, and then put the socks into your pungent peds.
Leave the salt in there for at least overnight, but if you haven’t got any practices or games coming up, you can totally feel free to leave the salt in there for longer. A good approach is also just to put the salt in there immediately after you use the shoes, as the quicker you can deprive the bacteria of their food, the less funk you’ll have to counter.
A white vinegar foot soak will help to directly counter the bacteria on your feet (thus saving your shoes from olfactory oblivion). Now, I know that you’re thinking about how vinegar is just a tangy pantry staple that’ll every so often show up in giving foods a bright, sour kick, but that tang is precisely what we need to give that stinky bacteria a swift and effective kick (if you will) all of its own!
Now, there’s no need to go about using your most expensive bottle of vinegar for this option– I know that personally, you could pry my favorite balsamic vinegar (GREAT for bruschetta and flavoring roasted vegetables, if your curious self wanted to know) out of my cold dead hands– and even then, as zombie a ghost I would come back simply to fight you for it (a fantastic balsamic is absolutely that good).
Apple cider vinegar, too, can also just seem kind of expensive to be (literally) poured down the drain afterward, which is why for this one we’re just going to recommend that you go for plain old white vinegar.
And due to how naturally acidic white vinegar is, those stinky bacteria won’t be able to stand a chance!
So get yourself a tub, fill it with one part white vinegar and then two parts water (hot or cold totally works just fine, and to be honest, I’d just go with whatever makes you most comfortable), mix it all together (because you know that it’s the best of both worlds;) ), and then dip your feet in to soak for at least 30 minutes. Make sure to rinse everything off afterward (no need for sour feet to replace the previous cheese-like stank) and then you’re good to go!
The bacteria ought to then be swimming down the drain, bemoaning their terrible, acidic doom, and you ought to be high-fiving yourself because you just did it! Ya’ deodorized those basketball shoes with vinegar and finally get to call it a day.
Steering back to directly going after those stinky basketball shoes themselves, our next option involves black tea. Now, I know this probs sounds just a little bit funky to ya’ but believe me when I say that black tea is totally good for more than just a simple, toasty beverage.
You see, black tea naturally has these things known as “tannins” that the bacteria simply hate. They’re like siblings right before dinner, screaming and shouting and making you question why you ever thought it’d be fun to not just stick with having a cute dog and maybe a couple of minimalistic house plants (at least those wouldn’t ever complain about leftovers).
But if you’re determined to stay the course (of learning how to deodorize stinky shoes, not parenting) then get yourself a couple of black tea bags, boil ‘em, and then simply place them inside of the olfactory offenders (*read: those stinky basketball shoes of yours), leaving the tea bags in for about an hour. Afterward, just wipe off any remaining liquid from your shoes, then let them sit to air-dry for a hot minute.
If you’ll care to recall, moisture and our shoes simply ought not mix, given as how the stinky bacteria (of which there may or may not be a few hearty and hale stragglers) simply love moisture to munch on, and if you stick your feet in before the shoes have completely and most definitely dried out then you’re in for an extra double-whammy of stank. So let the shoes dry out, overnight if you’d like, but def long enough to ensure that the stank won’t be making any kind of comeback.
Our final and perhaps most simple option for how to quickly fix stinky basketball shoes is LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer. For real, this stuff can successfully deodorize shoes and it also literally only takes a second to do so.
But you’re kind of on the line? Totally understandable, I mean, I swear that before I buy something I simply have to read at least ten million reviews, ask for a demonstration, and then get a free trial for like six months before I’m even halfway convinced of anything.
Take it from over 800 perfect 5-star reviews on Amazon though, with a well-earned average of 4.4 stars overall. Reviewer Sheila here talks about how all it took was one spray from LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer to fix the funk in her daughter’s basketball shoes:
LUMI is also actually a pretty rad company. They don’t test on animals (for the win), are a small, family-owned business (heck to the frik-frakin’ yeah), they source all of the natural products from high quality ingredients (woot-woot!), and all of their products are made in the US!
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is absolutely one of the easiest methods one can use to get rid of that dreaded funk from your footwear. All it takes is a spritz or two directly into each of your shoes, and that’s all you’ve got to do!
Plus, LUMI can totally work wonders in other smelly areas of the house as well. Does your kitchen sink make you want to barf? Spray it with LUMI! Got a gag-worthy garbage can? Couldn’t hurt to hit it up with a quick spray of LUMI!
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is GREAT for all of those, and makes it super easy for us to fix stinky shoes! One spray, and smelly basketball shoes shall be a problem no longer!
But let’s run through all of our shoe deodorizing options one more time, just because there were seven of them, and I’ve already honestly forgotten number 6 (and I wrote about it, so don’t you go feeling bad, alright? We’ve all got the memory span of a goldfish, and that’s absolutely alright).
First up, we have rubbing alcohol– it can help to fix stinky basketball shoes with ease, leaving the bacteria to skedaddle and never set the stage for that dreaded foot funk ever again. Soak some cotton pads or rounds in the rubbing alcohol, and then leave ‘em in your shoes for at least overnight, but overnight if you think you can spare the time and your shoes.
Baking soda works to absorb the moisture from your sweat, meaning that the stinky bacteria won’t have anything to chow down on and in turn produce that footwear funk none of us want making a comeback. Dash a few tablespoons of baking soda into your footwear and leave overnight to get rid of that bad shoe smell. You can also feel free to put the baking soda into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band, and then put that into your pungent peds– once again leaving overnight (or longer!) to deodorize the shoes.
Clean socks basically help to make sure that the bacteria only get access to the moisture in your old, sweaty socks for so long, before getting switched out with fresh, dry socks. No sweat means no footwear funk, alright? Simply make sure that you’re wearing clean socks for the majority of the day (changing out for a second or third spare works wonders here) and you’ll have fixed your smelly shoes in no time!
Salt can directly take on the stinky bacteria as it slurps away moisture just like the baking soda was able to. Dash a couple of tablespoons inside your stinky shoes, shake ‘em up a bit to evenly coat the insides, and leave overnight. For simple cleanup, you can totally feel free to put that salt in a sock or something, tie it off with a rubber band, and then leave that sock in overnight. Also, always remember that you can go a bit longer to give the salt some more time to work its deodorizing magic– you’ll know that the salt can’t really absorb much more water when it starts to clump up.
A wee white vinegar foot soak will also show the stinky bacteria precisely what you mean when you say that you want “Clean-smelling shoes ASAP,” as you get yourself a small tub, fill it with one part white vinegar (any other type will also absolutely work for ya’ but you’ll just have to be careful that the other varieties– like apple cider vinegar, for instance– doesn’t stain anything or break the bank), then two parts water, mix it all together and finally let your feet soak for just around 30 minutes. Rinse afterward, and give yourself a pat on the back because that’s all you have to do to fix your stinky shoes for good!
Or black tea contains tannins, which stinky bacteria simply aren’t a fan of, which means that we’ll be boiling a couple of tea bags ASAP, and then sticking them right into our footwear. Dab off the remaining liquid after about an hour, and then allow the shoes to air-dry completely before using your shoes.
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer can save your smelly shoes with just a wee little spritz or two directly into each of your shoes, and then you’re done. This option is GREAT if you’re running late to a game or practice (no overnighting “or longer” here), as it literally just takes seconds to fix your smelly shoes.
And that’s all seven! We’ve done it, and now you have to go ahead and pick one! Quick, simple tips for how to deodorize stinky basketball shoes for good. Pick one, or maybe double up to see which one will work for ya’ and then go ahead and enjoy the court free from that dreaded stank!
]]>Likely because all y’all are also usually the kindest of us lot on top of working incredibly difficult and lengthy shifts. For real, I’m convinced that nurses are also somehow super-powered heroes while the rest of us mortal peasants are merely left to stand in awe of the incredible oddity of nature that is the human nurse.
I mean, how do they do it all? The long shifts. The difficult workload. Having to hide their obvious superpowers from the rest of us peasants? I’d surely have collapsed from sheer mental and physical exhaustion after just the training and schooling that goes into becoming a nurse.
Somehow or another, however, nurses go out every day (and many nights on top) to go and make sure that the rest of humanity is healthier and left in utter and complete awe of nurses' general sheer awesomeness.
With long days, however, come stinky shoes. Nurses may indeed be some of the strongest and most capable human beings ever to grace the planet Earth, but even those super-powered wonders of society can’t help but succumb to that funky cheese smell which emanates from all of our footwear at times.
But we’re here to assist! We can help y’all to deodorize your stinky nurse shoes easy-peasy, positively no worries at all.
Yes, clean socks are a rather obvious option, but nursing can be hard, long work, and I’m sure that at times it’s pretty easy to forget the easy options. Believe me when I say that clean socks can make all the difference in the world, ok? It's true! There’s literally some science here to back me up, alright?
So while I’m sure all of you nurses are already really rather well-versed in how bodily functions occur, let’s just go over a quick refresher course, shall we?
Feet smell not because they’re inherently that way (*gasp) but because they’re home to smelly bacteria which live off of the plenitude of extra dead skin cells on one’s feet and all of the moisture from their sweat.
A rather simple diet I suppose– sweat and feet– very minimalistic, and surely organic. It’s not the greatest for all of us with functioning noses, though, which is why we turn to simple solutions for deodorizing smelly shoes (such as clean socks) in the first place.
Socks, just like one’s feet and shoes, can harbor the smelly bacteria that make our footwear funky, sadly enough– who knew the stinky suckers had such a diverse range of where they could live?
Long days on shift can make matters way worse, as throughout the day you’re sweating through your socks, feeding all of the bacteria there, and in turn contributing to the shoe stink.
So here’s one solution to our stinky sock (and stinky shoe) dilemma: simply switch out your sweaty socks as needed, before they get the chance to feed the footwear funk.
Hear me out-- it’s going to be way easier to bring a spare pair of socks to work than it will be to set your smelly nursing shoes on fire and chuck them into the nearest garbage disposal, after finally caving to the pungent pressure of the musty mayhem that *was* your shoes.
Spare socks are a lifesaver, okay? Switch 'em on out before the sweat becomes stink, and worry about your smelly nursing shoes no more.
Moisture really is the thing that we’ve got to watch out for, and corn starch can totally help us out with that. I mean, we’re going to sweat– we’re each only human, after all, even if you happen to count yourself among the literal deities that are nurses. Sweaty feet certainly shouldn’t be something to be ashamed of, but that doesn’t mean that we have to accept stinky shoes as a rank ramification of nature’s extra pungent efforts.
Corn starch can come to the rescue here, as it’s actually rather extraordinary for absorbing any and all kinds of moisture. The bacteria, you see, can’t produce its rather unfortunately renowned funk if it can’t consume any of the moisture from the sweat in your shoes.
Truly, we can think of corn starch as nature’s own little straw, of sorts. Corn starch can easily sop up the moisture that will regularly help contribute to our funky footwear dilemma with ease and hardly any effort at all on our part.
All you have to do to use corn starch to fix your stinky shoes for good is dash a couple of tablespoons of it directly into your shoes (giving them a good clap to make sure that everything is completely coated on the inside) or, if you’re a wee bit worried about clean-up (and as a nurse, I’m sure that you might be, considering all of your innate attention to detail) one can simple put the corn starch in a sock, and then tie it off with a rubber band or something like that.
Either way will totally work just fine– just make sure to leave the corn starch in your stinky shoes for at least overnight, or longer if you can spare the time.
Newspapers can also help us out with absorbing a bit of that sweaty moisture, believe it or not, and not just because it’s paper! Sure, plebeian paper products (ie. the common paper towel) will do something to help sop up the sweat, but newspapers have got something extra special up their proverbial sleeves, and we’re about to let you in on their secret.
You see, your common newspaper has a special kind of glaze printed out onto it to help keep water from blurring the ink. “Sizing,” is a way cool item that printers include in the production of newspapers– it’s a sort of glaze, as previously mentioned, and without it your daily paper would look like 60’s escapee, splotchy and tie-dyed beyond legibility.
But “sizing” comes to save the day, as it absorbs moisture like a sponge, holds onto it like a 5-year-old with their new toy on Xmas, and prevents said moisture from ever reaching the newspaper itself. Pretty rad for our daily rag, and also pretty rad for all of our rank nursing shoes!
Plus, this wee little trick gives newspapers a second purpose beyond giving the daily scoop on noteworthy happenings– recycling at its finest, ma’ dear reader.
Simply crumple up some newspaper into a few balls, then stuff the funky footwear with ‘em, and leave everything be overnight, but totally longer so as to properly ensure that the sweat gets dried up, and the bacteria’s food source is too-- remember, no bacteria, no more stank! All good things, particularly for our poor nose hairs.
Another super simple option for our pungent peds is simply a matter of doubling up on the shoes we put through full shifts of being on one’s feet.
Rotation, ma’ dear reader! A simple matter of selecting a different set of shoes for consecutive days, all so that the bacteria won’t be able to cash in on its free-for-all binge on the sweat and dead skin cells in your shoes.
For real, just a day or two off from the daily grind will give your shoes a chance to reset, and to really show those bacteria that your shoes are footwear instead of buffets. Constantly feeding said bacteria a steady supply of sweat is only going to allow them to get more entrenched in your shoes, and the funk that much more pronounced.
Rather than the most poignant of pungent disasters, your nursing shoes can take a break and dry out some! Perhaps use one set of shoes’ day off to utilize one of the other deodorizing options we’ve been chatting on about, and really allow your shoes the break they need to smell like something other than radioactive brie cheese.
Give your shoes a breather so that you yourself can finally take a breath within the vicinity of your shoes without gagging! At least two sets of shoes is a good place to start with this rotation option, and certainly, you don’t need to go beyond that, although do remember that the longer your feet aren’t in your shoes (and providing the bacteria with more sweat for funky fodder) the better-smelling your shoes will be, so if it’s an option opt to rotate through a wider variety of shoes.
But two sets of shoes to rotate between will totally work just fine! Any kind of rotation will give the bacteria a chance to realize that your nursing shoes are for you, and not their free real estate!
Although I get it if you don’t really want to have several sets of work shoes floating around the house– there’s already literally zero space for the cute shoes we actually want to wear in our free time. Not to say that nursing shoes aren’t an aesthetic all of their own, but the Uggs and holiday party heels really do need their space. And ok, that’s not even counting the actual cost of another set of nursing shoes– doubling up on shoes means doubling up on the amount of dough we have to shell out, sadly enough.
But we’ve got other options on how to deodorize smelly shoes! I know that it’s December, but hear me out on this pumpkin-spice themed shoe-saver: cloves, ma’ dear (yet likely a bit rank) reader. That lesser-known cousin to cinnamon or nutmeg. If you’re a baker, you’re likely already a wee bit familiar with the sweet spice trifecta of pumpkin-spice (or if you’re not, like the rest of us mere mortals, it’s just cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg– and perhaps ginger if you’re feeling adventurous). Cloves are good for more than baking, though!
Trust me when I say that cloves are fully up to the task of fixing your funky footwear for good! Simply dust the insides of those olfactory offenders (*read: your shoes) with a few tablespoons of cloves, or (if you’re hoping for that easier cleanup) stuff a sock with the sweet spice, tie it off with a rubber band, and then leave everything in overnight (but longer, if you’d like to make certain that your shoes are free from the stank).
Whole or powdered cloves will totally work just fine– just go for whatever is already in your spice cabinet, because there’s totally no need to break the bank to save your shoes from the typical wack wafts that you’ve almost been able to (but will never quite) get used to.
So you’re a nurse, and you probably already quite thoroughly understand the principles behind washing one’s hands, and this whole step probably seems just a bit trite to you. BUT I also understand that after a long day (or night) of work sometimes the little things get chucked out the window with all due haste in order to preserve just a smidgen of sanity.
And even remembering to wash the feet just a little bit is going to help. So, just in case it’s been a minute, or you’re an average human being such as myself, let’s do a quick review of how water and soap are actual miracle workers when it comes to saving the day (just like all y’all nurses).
Water is good as a sort of mechanical force (fancy words for a “real good shove”) that can physically push off grime, dirt, sweat, etc. etc. This is actually pretty rad, but it’s definitely not enough to truly make a dent in that dank foot smell.
Soap, specifically, is able to burst apart the fatty membrane surrounding a bacterium’s cell– which is great for us, because no fatter membrane means no bacteria, and that means an end to your stinky shoe dilemma.
When washing your feet in the shower, just make sure to take extra care with getting all of the extra nooks and crannies, scrubbing really well between the toes and everywhere else you think that the bacteria might be trying to hide from your wrath over its rankness. No more musty mayhem with plain old soap and water, and just a wee bit o’ elbow grease.
But the biggest thing that every nurse I know needs more of is simple TIME. Being a nurse is rewarding in its own way, sure enough, but that doesn’t mean that a simple and quick little shoe deodorizing hack wouldn’t go a long way. I mean, easy is nice, and effective is great, but where are the tricks that will speedily fix stinky shoes when one actually needs it (*read: ASAP, right now, yesterday-- seriously which shoe gods do I need to make a sacrifice to in order to make this happen)?
Worry no more about saving time and having great-smelling shoes with LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer. And I’m not the only one who thinks so! With a 4.4-star rating on Amazon and over 1000 perfect 5-star ratings on Amazon, LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer has proven itself more than capable of taking on practically any level of stinky shoes. Amazon reviewer Grace Brown here said that it even left her with a “hint of freshness” after her shift:
Besides shoes, LUMI works pretty well for literally almost anything else in the house that’s stinky as well. Got a rank garbage can? Spray LUMI in! Does your sink smell like yesterday’s (or quite possibly last week’s) dinner? LUMI can totally fix that.
LUMI also just happens to be a fabulous small, family-owned company that only sources the highest quality natural ingredients, never tests on animals, and also produces everything in the US. They’re pretty rad, obviously.
And it doesn’t hurt that their products are effective too! Simply spritz LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer directly into your smelly nursing shoes and you’re done! That’s quite literally it, ma’ dear (and hopefully no longer smelly) reader! Cue all of the happy dances because this is how we’re finally going to fix those stinky shoes for good.
But let’s just review everything else at least once more, shall we? I know that I like to have my options open, just in case, and it never hurts to just double up, am I right? Those funky bacteria simply won’t stand a chance with these quick and easy deodorizing hacks up your sleeves!
So starting off with corn starch, we’ll be using its awesome moisture-absorbing properties to sop up the sweat so that the stink-making bacteria won’t have a chance to chow down on it. Simply dust a few tablespoons right on into your shoes, or put it all in a sock and then put the sock into your shoes, overnight or longer.
And speaking of clean socks, those will also absolutely help you to get rid of that overwhelming shoe smell. Moisture (and bacteria!) like to linger in socks, meaning that without fresh and dry socks we’re basically just tempting fate to wack us upside the head with the foot funk. Just wear clean socks, ma’ dude. Change out during the day, if you need to.
Newspapers can absorb sweat just like baking soda, but via a slightly different manner. The glaze known as “sizing” that most printers layer onto their product helps to absorb moisture, in turn helping to prevent smudging, which then helps us to absorb plain old sweat! Crumple up a few balls of your daily paper, stuff ‘em on into your smelly shoes, and then leave overnight or longer.
Rotating through a few pairs of shoes will help to deter the funk as well. Show a little TLC to the shoes that help to hold you up throughout the day, and give ‘em a few days off to really dry out. Plus, this could totally be a great chance to rock several different styles– never a bad plan! Who ever said that fashion and work couldn’t go hand-in-hand? Or foot-in-a-very-fabulous-set-of-shoes, as the case may now be.
Next up for us will be cloves, which will absolutely show the funk who’s boss, as you dash in a few tablespoons of the amazing-smelling spice (whole or powdered will totally work just fine) straight on into your nursing shoes to help fix the smell. Or, alternatively, put the sweet spice in a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something, if you want to keep cleanup easy (a great tactic for everybody, even if you’re not a nurse). Leave overnight or longer, and enjoy your shoes smelling like Starbucks the day after the most recent autumnesque pumpkin spice latte dropped (so, August, am I right? I swear, they just keep dropping it earlier and earlier).
Washing your feet extra well can additionally help, as it's a HUGE deterrent for the bacteria. Make sure to really get the nooks and crannies all over your feet (I’m talking in between the toes, behind the toes, your arch– EVERYWHERE!) with lots of soap and warm water– or cold water, I suppose, if you’re one of those brave folk who take frigid showers (go you, ten out of ten, I hope that you enjoy your life as a popsicle).
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is probably the simplest option of the bunch, as you deodorize your stinky nursing shoes with just a few spritzes and then get to call it a day (or night, if your shift was later)! One or two spritzes should be enough to deodorize each shoe, and right after you spray it on in you’re good to go! Perfect for someone like you who’s always on the go.
It can be tough being a nurse! Don’t let your stinky nursing shoes be something else that you’ve got to worry about. Try any one (or several!) of these options for how to quickly fix stinky shoes. Effectively get rid of the funk that’s been plaguing your footwear with ease!
]]>There aren’t many who are into putting themselves through both the cold and the strenuous nature of lengthy nature walks, but you get it, don’t you? I mean, you clicked onto this page, so I’m going to go out on a brittle wintery limb here, and guess that you already know and absolutely adore hiking when most others would just clamp their mouths shut, shake their heads, and pronounce “TOO COLD!”
You’re likely the kind of person who finds beauty in the stalwart green pines that retain their sense of strength and vitality, even as the rest of the forest takes a long winter’s nap. You see the deep drifts of snow and perhaps think to yourself, “Dang, it sure would be awesome to be out exploring in that!”
You’re also probs the kind of person who exposes their poor hiking boots to plenty of moisture (whether that be sweat or snow), and your poor winter-ready footwear has probably been through it, am I right?
Lots of sweat, and lots of extra moisture? Am I also right when I guess that your winter hiking boots also stink just a little bit? Maybe… a lot?
Don’t you worry your lovely lil’ ski-cap bedecked mind one whit about that, because there are plenty of options to deodorize your hiking boots effectively and with ease!
How can vinegar help to fix your smelly winter hiking boots?
I get it– when you’re out winter hiking, smelly shoes are probs the very last thing on any of y’all’s minds. Like, it’s freakin’ cold, our face is freakin’ cold, our feet are freakin’ cold, I mean everything is freakin’ cold! HA! Tell that to the stinky bacteria on your feet, now heated up by all of your hiking adventures.
Oh, did I forget to mention that? Yeah, there’s bacteria thriving and jiving all over your feet, shoes, socks, and um… well, sorry if this is the first time you’re hearing about all of this. It’s quite a stinky shock to the system, to be sure.
You see, said smelly bacteria love to eat the moisture from your sweat and the extra leftover dead skin cells also hanging out on your feet. Thus, when you do any kind of working out (like a fresh jaunt in the wintery woods) you’re also kind of feeding your wee little pet bacteria (do they even count as pets if you didn’t actually mean to get them?)-- regardless of how you feel about that, it’s a fact and we’re just going to have to deal with it.
This time, with vinegar! Soak a couple of cotton rounds in any kind of vinegar (apple cider may stain your shoes, so I’d usually say to just go for the white vinegar), and then stuff ‘em into your soon-to-not-be-stinky winter hiking boots.
You can leave everything be overnight, but longer will def help the acidic vinegar to do its job and do away with the stinky bacteria, and help you to finally fix those stinky shoes for good!
But let’s see if we can make a science experiment-type volcano, because the next one up on our shoe deodorizing list is baking soda!
Oh yes, the magical chemical agent that makes cakes (and empires, surely) rise, fizzes on contact with any kind of vinegar (the BEST kind of explosive childhood science, am I right?), and also is totally and most absolutely capable of getting rid of your footwear’s funk!
Baking soda, you see, is actually kind of fantastic for absorbing any and all kinds of moisture which, if you may recall, is what the stinky bacteria just love to eat. And, NEWSFLASH, fed bacteria is stinky bacteria! We don’t want that, obvs. Prevent the bacteria from getting their three square ones a day, and you’ll have better-smelling shoes in no time at all!
All you have to do is get yourself a couple tablespoons of baking soda and then use it all to just dust up the insides of your winter hiking boots really well. Give ‘em a good shake to totally coat everything in there– it certainly wouldn’t do to have most of one shoe be smelling fabulous, and then like that one little nook or cranny smell like… well, foot.
But hey, you might be worried about cleaning up the inevitable mess. I mean, if you’re just out hiking, it probs won’t matter to you all that much because you can clap out your shoes right before you set out, but I ain’t here to judge– just here to help ya’ fix your stinky shoes, m’kay? And honestly, I’d probs be in the worry crew myself (messy white footprints everywhere just sound positively dreadful).
SO, you might want to try putting the baking soda into a sock, then you’ll tie it off with a rubber band or something, and stuff the sock into your rank hiking boots.
Regardless of the mode, get the baking soda into your shoes, leave overnight at the very least, but leave it for longer if you truly want to say sayonara to the shoe stank.
Ok so you read the title of this option, and I’m sure that your first thought wasn’t, (*cue the most sarcastic tone your own inner voice has to offer): “Obviously. Of course. This was my plan all along. Why the heck would we not first think to stuff our funky footwear into the freezer? Obvs.”
Or perhaps that’s exactly what it was, and you’re just a really well-informed winter hiker who already knows the entire game plan when it comes to knowing how to use the freezer to actually fix your smelly hiking boots for good. If so, then go you, ten out of ten, ma’ dear reader.
So we already know that it’s the bacteria in your shoes that are stinking them up, and what do bacteria need to thrive besides moisture and dead skin cells? Love, attention, some positive words of affirmation, perhaps gifts– heck no, it’s not any of those (although they may be for some real rad people in your life). It’s warmth! Not the affectionate kind, duh, but like literal, actual toasty temperatures.
Regularly, sweaty feet provide all of the heat, dead skin cells, and moisture a wee little bacterium could ever possibly require, BUT not today! No siree-bob, we’re putting an end to that this very minute!
Stick the stinky little suckers (AKA your shoes) into the nearest freezer (after putting your shoes into a pillow case or ziploc bag perhaps, just to keep your footwear and frozen food separated). Leave overnight or longer if you can manage it.
What’s also cool about this option is that it works with camping for all of you hikers out there. Do you want to know what’s the world’s largest (and free!) freezer? Its own open-aired self! When camping in the winter, leave your hiking boots right outside your tent and wake up to shoes that are stink-free because all of the bacteria are now literal popsicles.
Another easy method you can use to deodorize your hiking boots while camping (stinky shoes wait for no one, and certainly not if you just spent the whole entire day trekking into the unknown) is simple charcoal!
And no I don’t mean the charcoal that you get from your cooking fires– that is charcoal, but I mean it’d probs just be really difficult to use for this next option of ours.
Charcoal, you see is just superheated carbon (usually we use things like coconut husks, bamboo, etc. etc.) and then when it's all toasty the charcoal develops wee little pores that can absorb things like funk plus all of our woes and worries (not literally, but I mean no shoe stink would totally have me feeling a little bit less woeful, of course).
So we can use charcoal in its powdered form (usually it comes in tiny little tablets that are supes convenient) to help us with our poor shoes’ dank-smelling dilemma. Simply put the charcoal powder into your shoes or in a little envelope of something if you want to be careful for an easier time cleaning it all up, and then leave overnight– longer, of course, if you’d like to give the charcoal a better chance at absorbing the rank odors.
And just make sure to remember to switch out the packets after a while– charcoal is pretty cool, but it isn’t fairly reusable. Once it’s absorbed a lot of the odor, the charcoal will need to be replaced if you want this neat little deodorizing trick to keep absorbing the shoes’ odor.
But I get that figuring out the charcoal tablets can be a little new, and then honestly trying to figure out this whole deodorizing hiking boots thing can just be a wee bit stressful overall, so this next one up on our list is a super easy (but still totally effective) method for getting rid of that funk for good! As in, this is like one step and then you’re all good to blaze a trail in the frosty frontier of your choosing without fear of stinky shoes.
Soap, you see, actually is sort of fabulous because of how it can take down the dank bacteria at the molecular level. To explain, when you wash your hands, the water is a mechanical force that simply pushes the bacteria (like a backslap off of your skin, if you will), whereas soap is something that’s able to quite literally burst apart the fatty membrane surrounding the bacteria.
And do ya’ want to know what’s pretty rad? No membrane, no bacteria. *Insert satisfied smirk and arms folded across the chest* BOOM!
So we don’t actually need to suds up our poor stinky winter hiking boots for this one (thank goodness, because after a long hike in the powdery snow, I really don’t want to be messing around with moist shoes). Instead, we merely require a plebian bar of soap in addition to some time.
All you’ve got to do is stick your choice of hard bar soap into your shoes, leave everything to hang out overnight (or longer if you haven’t a pressing need to do more hypothermic hiking any time soon), and then you’re golden! More importantly, you’re also (most probably) stank-free! Repeat if needed, of course, because consistency works wonders, as they say.
Perhaps you’d like a more rustic scent for your smelly snow-safe shoes, however. I mean, after all, you’re clearly a person who loves the great and wondrous outdoors (and obviously thus one of a rather refined and cultured taste). Some soaps just kind of smell like old lady armpit anyway. With this option the only worry you could possibly have is people smelling you and wondering who or what rustic woodsperson just walked into their range of smell, and curiously wondering how they too could ever possibly achieve such a fabulous mountainy aroma.
It’s all cedar chips, my fine (yet likely still a tad bit funky) friend. They’re those wonderful little packets of spicy woodsy magic that may remind you of summer BBQs perhaps, long evening walks beneath autumnesque trees, or even
just your own local gardening center.
Plenty of local outdoors stores supply them, or even some grocery stores can come to our rank rescue (a very extra sincere to all of the grill masters out there who keep said chips in steady demand).
Cedar is particularly pungent, and it’s absolutely fantastic for helping us to rid us of the rad odors emanating from our hiking gear, you see. Simply put a couple of tablespoons of the amazingly-scented wood chips directly into your shoes (cedar works fabulously, although if you can only find hickory or even applewood, that should work just fine).
Leave the wood chips in overnight, but longer probs won’t hurt your boots (but that’s just my humble and most mortal take on the matter:) ).
I get that you might not have the time, however, to just let your winter hiking boots hang out overnight (or longer) because the snow-blanketed woods are extraordinarily vociferous in their calling, and you must go ASAP!
And that’s where LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer comes in! This stuff works fast, effectively, and it’s as simple as could possibly ever get.
LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the company’s best-selling product, given a 4.4-star rating on Amazon, with over TEN FREAKIN’ THOUSAND perfect 5-star reviews. This one Amazon reviewer here tells us of how one use was literally all it took for them to get rid of basically all the funk their boots have been getting from the winter moisture:
LUMI is also a pretty fabulous company itself. They never test on animals, all of their products are sourced from the highest quality and all-natural ingredients, and they also produce everything in the US! Oh and btw they’re a small family-owned business as well– like seriously, come on. Cue all of the confetti and gospel choirs, because your shoes are about to get the actual VIP treatment.
Simply spritz LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer once or twice directly into your winter hiking boots, and you’re all set! That’s literally all you have to do!
No need to wait overnight or longer or for the next big sale for new winter hikers because you chucked your old boots out since the smell had kind of begun to smell like radioactive cheese– none of that! Fix the boots you have, ma’ dear reader, with LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer.
But I think I might want a review of all of these options. I don’t know about you all, but I always make sure to double-check and review the route before I set off on a hike in temperatures that may or may not be able to turn me into an actual popsicle.
Vinegar can help you to deodorize your winter hiking boots thanks to how acidic it is. It’ll get after all of the smelly bacteria and before you know it you’ll be stank-free with no fear of the little buggers hitching a ride on your hikes. Soak some cotton pads or rounds in your vinegar of choice (white vinegar won’t stain, FYI), and then stuff those rounds or pads into each of your boots. Leave overnight or longer to make sure the bacteria won’t be doing an encore.
Baking soda also works well for taking care of funk from soggy shoes, as it absorbs any and all kinds of moisture really, really quite well. Simply dust a tablespoon or two into each of your boots (or fill a sock with the same, tie it off, and then stuff the socks into your boots), leave overnight, and call it a day! Or alternatively leave the baking soda in for longer to better absorb the stank– you’ll know when the baking soda can’t absorb anymore moisture when it starts to clump up some.
An overnight trip to your freezer will also help to nullify the musty mayhem of your winter hiking boots. The cold and bacteria aren’t exactly BFFs, and with the chilly temps your boots can be fresh albeit possibly frosty. If you’re camping, you can totally just stick your boots outside the tent, and wake up to the stink-free wonders that are now your boots, or alternatively you could put the boots into a bag or pillowcase and place ‘em in the freezer overnight or a bit longer (your Ben and Jerry’s won’t mind the company, I’m sure).
Charcoal tablets come to save the day with actually amazing odor-absorption superpowers. For real, all you’ve got to do is fill up a wee little envelope with the powdery stuff, and stick it right on into your boot, leave overnight or longer, and then take a deep breath of frigid but fresh air because now you get to enjoy your winter hiking without the wack wafts emanating up from your boots.
Soap will do away with the bacteria’s outer cellular layer, meaning that it won’t be able to stink up your soggy shoes after any and all kinds of brisk adventuring that you might have planned. Just stick a bar into each of your shoes, and leave overnight, or longer if you can spare your shoes for any more time. No need to even suds up the (hopefully no longer) stinky suckers! Just two dry bars of soap that will take care of your pungent peds without involving any of the elbow grease!
Cedar wood chips will take on the funk with its own fantastically woodsy aroma. Layer the pungent mulch in those boots (remember that hickory or really any other lovely-smelling wood chip will also do), trying to cover most of the surface area in your shoes. Leave overnight, but longer won’t do anything but make your shoes smell *that* much more amazing.
And then we’ve got ourselves a fabulous option in LUMI’s Extra Strength Lemon Eucalyptus Natural Shoe Deodorizer. Simply spritz once or twice directly into your shoes, and then you’re done! No overnighting or anything for this option– its speedy, and the bottle is also conveniently sized so that you can easily pack it in with the rest of your stuff on any kind of frigid backpacking or camping trip without worry for it taking up too much space.
So go ahead and march right on up the marvelously chilly mountains, the arctic tundra, or wherever you may be adventuring this winter, because any of these options will successfully deodorize your stinky winter hiking boots with ease and quite possibly a touch of pizazz. Take any of these quick and easy tricks to get rid of your stinky shoes’ smell for good!
]]>All of those things, but do you want to know what’s also running through all of our minds? Actual running– heck yeah, I’m talking about all of those TURKEY TROTS that we purposefully signed up for or were strong-armed by family into participating in.
It’s almost tragic– before we can sample the warm smells of a crispy turkey; before we can avoid the funky green bean casserole that’s almost nobody’s favorite dish on the already heavy-laden table (but mom insists that something on it is green). Indeed before all of that, we’ve got to run and give ourselves a deficit of calories so that we can properly enjoy ourselves at the Thanksgiving meal.
I can see it now– the rush of runners. The smell of sunscreen enters your nose as you pick up to a light jog, and… gack, is that cheese? Wait, it’s way worse– oh yes, my most dear reader, it is what you think it is.
That terrible and most-awful scent of smelly shoes. Why oh why can’t we just skip on to the apple pie? At least that smells better– no, amazing. I’ll take apple pie over smelly shoes any day.
There’s literally no need to have smelly shoes on your next Turkey Trot, because there’s absolutely no reason at all that you can’t deodorize your long-distance running shoes in time for the holidays!
So let’s talk about shoes. More specifically, let’s talk about how to fix your smelly shoes. An easy-peasy way to do that is simply to let them air out and store them somewhere particularly sunny and/or arid.
For real, all you need is some fresh air to save your long-distance running shoes in time for the upcoming (dreaded or anticipated) Thanksgiving marathon. Yep, simple air; cue Johann Strauss’s “Blue Danube Waltz.”
It all comes down to why your footwear’s got the funk (and why you get dizzy off of the positively radioactive fumes wafting up from said shoes). You see, it’s not your feet that stink– it’s true! The smell that we think of when someone mentions smelly shoes is actually the byproduct of bacteria that merely live in your shoes.
Sadly enough, said bacteria also kind of lives on your feet (just try not to think about it too terribly much, alright?), because they like to chow down on moisture (which works because um, well, your feet sweat mucho all the time) and then any extra dead skin cells (even wee little bacterium needs protein, it turns out).
So storing your long-distance shoes somewhere arid and sunny literally is just going to help us dry out the stinky little buggers. Lots of fresh, moving air is just what the bacteria need to shrivel up and evacuate your footwear premise, just in time to be hanging out around the fam for long periods of time, and the last thing we want is for people to ask if that cheesy smell is from the potatoes or *someone’s* (your) feet.
Ok, so we all know that you can’t very well go on and chuck your long-distance marathon-ready shoes into a washing machine, or at the very least, do so, and expect them to come out alright at the end of the wash cycle (*cue the little beepy jingle your laundry machine makes to signal its done, but this time around imagine the song playing in a way sad minor key).
BUT you want to know what certainly can go through the wash? The sole! Not… soul, um I don’t think I’m qualified to give advice on that (like… don’t forget to scrub behind the phantasmic ears? IDK dude I ain’t a ghostbuster– although I also ain’t afraid of no ghost, m’kay?). Nah, I mean sole, as in the padding in your shoes that your feet typically rest right on top of.
The soles of the shoes are going to hold a fair bit of the bacteria that normally makes your shoes so stinky, so we’re going to have to take care of them ASAP. The soles of your shoes can easily take a trip through the wash without a whole lot of ill side-effects, unlike your shoes– which we really rather wouldn’t disintegrate before we have a chance to kick butt at the Turkey Trot, am I right?
Or perhaps you’re hoping to have a good excuse not to run? I mean, a fair excuse to excuse yourself could totally be “Whoops, the washing machine ate my shoes, lol!” I mean who knows– you’d get to eat popcorn and cheer all of the more athletically inclined folk on.
But if you’re really determined to take your place in Turkey Trot glory (sans-stinky shoes, of course), just go ahead and chuck your stinky sneakers’ soles into the wash, but then FOR THE LOVE OF GRAVY AND ALL OTHER GOOD THINGS make sure to let the darn things dry!
If you wear the soles while still soggy and squishy you’ll just be feeding the bad-smelling bacteria even more fodder, so yeah, just make sure to give your soles enough time to dry out, ya’ hear?
Of course, however, it can all get a bit tedious when one is making sure that their shoes (and soles) are completely dried out before use. I mean, who’s got the time for that? With Thanksgiving, we’ve got family coming into town, overly excited pets, and quite possibly (but definitely not in your case, because I am positive that you’re just a fabulous chef in the kitchen) a not-quite defrosted turkey in one corner, some burning cranberry sauce in another, and wait why are the mashed potatoes on fire!? Can they even do that?
Save the stress for the things that might need it– which is not going to be your shoes on my watch.
SALT is the next option we’ve got up on our list, and it’s literally just so easy to use to deodorize your smelly marathon shoes. I mean, it’s also kind of like those deals when you get two for the price of one– you’ll get to season everything well and have deodorized the rank runners!
I mean, now don’t go forgetting the pepper or onion or anything, because just salt is way too plebeian, and far beneath a surely magnificent chef, such as yourself– although salt certainly isn’t a bad place to start, for your food or your funky footwear.
Salt, you see, is literally the bad-smelling bacteria’s worst nightmare. It absorbs water like there’s no tomorrow, leaving said bacteria without a key ingredient for their musty mayhem.
Simply dust a couple of tablespoons of salt directly into your shoes. That’s it! Or, if you’re looking for an easier method of cleaning up you can put the salt into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something like that, and then stuff the sock into the stinky shoe.
Leave it all for at least overnight, but longer if you’ve got the time (Turkey Trots tend to be morning adventures, so make sure just to plan in advance).
A similar option to salt (if you’re opposed to using up all of your needed seasonings before the big meal on Thanksgiving) is regular old baking soda! Similar to salt, baking soda is simply amazing at absorbing any and all kinds of moisture (so the sweat from all of your morning jogs to prepare for the big run totally counts).
Oh yes, literally just baking soda! I’m talking about that magical ingredient which makes all of our baked goods rise, helps to make soft pretzels (it’s what gives the pretzels their unique flavor and texture– a unique Thanksgiving treat for those who are looking for a more unique spread this year!), and is literally all-around just THE holy grail of ingredients. Like, basically almost anything delicious probs has a 99.99999% chance of including baking soda on its list of ingredients.
Same situation as salt– you need to get a couple of tablespoons of the baking soda, dust up your stinky shoes (give ‘em a really good shake just to evenly coat everything on the inside), or alternatively get a sock, stuff it like a turkey, and then tie it all off.
Leave overnight, but if you want to really pack an olfactory punch you ought to leave the baking soda in your shoes for a wee bit longer. It’ll start to clump up if it’s been in there too long, but usually by then the baking soda has worked its deodorizing magic, and you’ll be all good to go just in time for your holiday marathon!
The next method for deodorizing stinky shoes we’ve got for ya’ is common rotation. Literally just switching out your marathon footwear every so often so that you can give those poor shoes the break we all know they deserve.
I mean, just think about all of the last-minute cardio workouts we’ve been trying to cram in the weeks before Thanksgiving (because we may or may not have been slacking, and um, well the Halloween candy, although it didn’t fit in with the regimented training diet, was really quite delicious).
So your shoes need a break. Do you remember all of the smelly bacteria we were chatting about just a couple of paragraphs ago? For real, those stinky little buggers love nothing more than when you give them a constant, never-ending stream of food– AKA the moisture from your sweat and the dead skin cells from your feet.
Just think of wearing the same shoes every day as providing a free ticket to an all-you-can-eat buffet for the stinky bacteria. They’re just going to intensify the already positively radioactive stench emanating up from your rank runners, and we all know that nobody needs or wants that.
So put a stop to all of the bacteria’s stinky shenanigans by taking your feet out of the equation! Just for a little while– enough so that your shoes can get a real good breather before having to put up with your morning slog around the neighborhood’s cul-de-sac for the 500th time in a row. Seriously– even just alternating between two sets of sneakers can help to prevent the stink!
This next one will hopefully not just get rid of the stink, but leave behind a delightful odor that we’re all familiar with, and probs love to pieces. Oh yes, I’m talking about pumpkin spice, ma’ dear reader! Well, specifically cinnamon, but the details are simply that, am I right? Pumpkin spice is pumpkin spice– *cue all of the gospel choirs, cheering crowds, and whoops is that confetti?
Do you want your shoes to smell better than a fall candle? Will you and your (presently terrifyingly rank) trainers be coming for Yankee as the top of the heap in all things that smell amazing? Do you want everybody to ask “Who’s got the Starbs pumpkin spice latte?” when you walk into the room? How about replacing the sweaty old cheese odor with something that’s very nearly like walking into a Krispy Kreme store when the hot and fresh donuts sign is out?
You answered yes to all of those questions– admit it. Even someone with the attention span of half a gerbil (*raises hand* because I’m guilty as charged) knows that cinnamon smells way better than sweaty feet.
All you have to do is dash a couple of tablespoons of cinnamon straight into your shoes, give ‘em a good shake to evenly coat everything, and then let it hang out overnight before you clap out the spice. If you’d like to go for easier cleanup, just use that sock option we went over with a few of the earlier options– stuff the sock with cinnamon, tie it off, stuff the sock into the stinky shoe, and wait overnight.
And totally feel free to leave the cinnamon in longer if you’d like! Your shoes won’t mind (trust me) and it’ll give the cinnamon longer to work its great-smelling magic!
The last option we have for ya’ in how to deodorize your long-distance running shoes is actually probs the most simple of the whole lot. For the rest, you’ve had to worry about socks, making sure the shoes are completely and most definitely dried out before use, amongst all kinds of other things, but no more!
When you use LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder it literally is just as simple and straightforward as it gets. LUMI is for sure one of the best products out there for literally preventing foot odor because of how it puts a stop to moisture in your shoes, and ok beyond that the ingredients are actually fabulous for your skin, like bentonite clay, zinc oxide, kaolin clay, etc. etc.
So you're not entirely sure about LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder just yet? No worries, plenty of Amazon customers can help you make your decision, as they’ve given the product a fantastic 4.6-star rating, with over 600 perfect 5-star ratings! User Hayley N. here talks about how the product is actual “magic” that saved their running shoes after they went through a “tough mudder”:
And ok LUMI itself is also just kind of cool too– like they’re a small, family-owned company, they never test on animals, and all of their products are also produced in the US. Those skin-friendly ingredients from earlier? LUMI only sources the highest-quality and all-natural ingredients for their products on top of all those other fabulous shenanigans we chatted about.
Just tap some of LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder into your long-distance running shoes and you’ll have odor-free footwear before you know it!
Before do anything else though, (like sitting down to write our grocery list for the food-filled week-- AKA the Costco Quest right when the doors open) let’s just summarize everything, because even before the post-food coma that we all get after the big Thanksgiving meal I’ve got the memory of a turkey. SO, here's how to quickly and easily deodorize your smelly shoes:
First up is airing out your footwear with sunshine, fresh air, and um yeah that’s literally it! This option is supes speedy, and totally effective at getting rid of that funk. Store your poor shoes somewhere they can properly air out, and show the stinky bacteria who’s boss!
Washing the soles of your smelly shoes will also help to do the bad-smelling bacteria in, and for good. Just because your shoes aren’t exactly washer-safe (just take my word on that, yeah?) it doesn’t mean we can’t feel free to go on and chuck the soles in! Simply make sure to dry ‘em out afterward, and you’ll be all good to go.
Salt will actually take care of all that extra moisture for you, and can also actually absorb the OG sweat that the bacteria loves to chow down on, and then make your shoes a wee bit rank in the first place. Dry out the stinky lil’ buggers with a dusting of salt in your stinky shoes, or stuff a salt-filled sock in if you’d like to go for an easier cleanup. Leave overnight, or longer if you’ve got the time (which you totally might not, because that turkey ain’t going to stick itself in the oven, and we all know that the perfect pie takes an absolute eon of flawless preparation).
Baking soda can also help to fix your stinky shoes (if you’d like to save the salt for the turkey brine), with just a few tablespoons dusted straight into your shoes (don’t forget to give it all a good shake to evenly coat the insides) or use a baking soda-filled sock to keep things simple (which we all know is needed during this crazy-busy holiday week).
Rotation is another option we've got for helping to save your funky footwear from olfactory oblivion because ya’ remember that rank bacteria? The ones that go after your runners with no remorse and produce all kinds of stank? Well, just like anything living they’ve got to get their square meals a day, so when you deprive ‘em of the moisture from your sweat and the dead skin cells on your feet for a little while you’re more than sure to evict the little buggers from your podiatric premises.
Cinnamon is for most of the autumn lovers out there, and great for all of the people who want to get rid of the pungent smell in their long-distance running shoes quickly and easily. Put a few tablespoons of this lovely-smelling spice right into your shoes, give them a wee shake to just evenly coat everything, and then leave overnight or for even longer to really give your stinky shoes time to smell like pumpkin spice instead of the radioactive cheese thing you had going on before.
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is our final option for how to deodorize smelly long-distance running shoes, and it couldn’t be more simple! Just dust it right on into your shoes and afterward totally feel free to high-five yourself because you’ve just done it! No more smelly shoes! It’s gone like that last slice of grandma’s apple pie after everybody had thirds, and we couldn’t be happier for you.
That’s it! Go forth and run your Turkey Trot without a single darn worry about stinky shoes (or walk really enthusiastically:) No judgment here– just great-smelling footwear).
]]>IT’S SNOWBOARDING SEASON, folks!!! Now I’m talking fresh, floofy powder. Snow that feels like butter when you glide over it. Quiet pines to weave through like quicksilver. And, of course, the mammoth serving of chili cheese fries you're going to be getting for yourself from the toasty warm lodge at the top of the ski lift.
Coming from someone who's been hitting the slopes since she was a wee one, I’ve got to say that the fries might just be the best part. Oh, don’t get me wrong– a warm bowl of gooey and cheesy bacon potato soup is never amiss when you’ve just come in from a blizzard, but those loaded fries are it. I’m actually fairly certain that one could live off of them alone. I mean you have your basic food groups, of course– bacon, bacon grease, cheese, salt, and potatoes. Bonus points for a good drizzle of ranch on top. The smell alone could literally give me life.
But you want to know what smell is actually the exact opposite? Yours! Well, okay it’s your snowboarding boots. Seriously, those people who take off their boots in the middle of the cafeteria, unleashing their pungent peds just don’t know that deodorizing their shoes could literally be a game-changer (and also showcase some basic human decency, because I’ve only got so many functional nose hairs, alright)!
Learn how to fix stinky shoes so that you’re not that person!
First off, we’ll be going through the basics (treat this as your first boarding lesson– you’ll fall down an absolute ton, but it’s so that you can be/smell better later). You’ve read the title of this option for fixing smelly shoes, and I’m sure that your first thought was something along the lines of “Clean socks!?” What are we, three?” I mean, there are three-year-olds whose shoes smell way better than yours, I’m sure, so read on before you turn your poor, abused nose up at it!
You can absolutely save your sense of smell with clean socks-- I pinkie-promise that I can back this up, alright? Just hear me out, and decide for yourself if something so simple really could make any kind of difference in saving your rank boots from olfactory oblivion.
It all comes down to a tiny little bit of science– and when I say, “tiny,” I really mean like, “microscopic.” Ya’ see, your feet (and thus any and all of your shoes) are home to actual, living bacteria. (*Save your gasps for the slopes, folks, for when someone lands a really cool trick or something.)
That bacteria is what’s really stinking up your shoes. It feeds off of the moisture in your sweat and any extra dead skin cells left to hang out on your feet. After athletic activities in particular, both of these things can totally be found in abundance all over your feet, and then our shoes pick up the smell, and then your feet stink, and then you sigh because you’ll be wishing that you had listened to that one person who may or may not have mentioned just a couple of ways that you could fix those smelly shoes for good.
Clean socks basically give you a clean palette to work with! Make sure your shoes aren’t tainted by socks that are already swarming with stinky bacteria that would love nothing more than to expand their living space into your boots!
This one is as easy as it gets– only board with clean socks, and your boots won’t smell grody.
This next option for fixing your smelly snowboarding boots actually comes with a side beverage. Oh yes, we’ll be multi-tasking, as we fix the footwear funk and get all buzzed and ready for another fabulous day on the slopes. Time to get caffeinated, ma’ dear reader, because coffee grounds are what’s next up on our list of simple solutions to fix your smelly shoes for good!
Actually, the coffee grounds will be doing all of the heavy-lifting here. I mean, that’s not to say that you can’t enjoy your cup of joe in the meantime, but the liquid itself won’t really be doing anything for us. We’ll only be using the grounds, which you would otherwise just be throwing away or composting anyway, so it’s not like for this one you’ll be having to do much other than enjoy your coffee (and your great-smelling shoes).
It all comes down to just a little bit of science. You see, coffee naturally is a kind of anti-pest kind of plant. Just like spicy peppers, it contains a chemical that wards off predators-- in coffee's case, it's caffeine (wildly new information to you, I’m sure) and caffeine itself contains nitrogen.
Nitrogen in turn has a neat little trick known as “adsorption,” (not “absorption,” because that’s definitely a different thing), and adsorption is literally just where a gas or liquid (your sweat and its funk kind of count as both) is going to stick in a sort of film to the thing doing the adhering (so the coffee grounds), and then you can just throw it all away! Keep the boots, not the funk, am I right?
So get yourself some coffee grounds (and enjoy a nice toasty beverage while you’re at it), put a few tablespoons into your boots and then leave overnight. If you’re worried about cleanup (and who wouldn’t be?) put the coffee grounds in a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something, and then just put that sock into the snowboarding boot.
Leave longer than overnight if you really want the grounds to pack a punch!
Corn Starch is another super simple solution to smelly snowboarding shoes. You might think that corn starch is just the cooking ingredient used to thicken puddings, make fried chicken just a little bit more crispy, or that it's a sort of flour substitute, but trust me when I say that corn starch can totally do so much more outside of your kitchen.
Corn starch, you see, is absolutely phenomenal at absorbing moisture. It’s a veritable straw and with it, any and all liquids will be out of sight and out of mind in (very nearly) no time at all! Think of it as your very own personal anti-sweat super sponge, leaving you and your snowboarding boots to reach for new nasal heights.
Exactly like when we were using the coffee grounds, you need to put a couple of tablespoons of corn starch into your boots– you may also just want to give them a good, all-around shake just to evenly coat everything, because we all know that those shoes can be a little bit snug, and that your sweaty feet occupy more than just the pad of the shoe (get all the nooks and crannies, ma’ dude). Or, alternatively, put the corn starch into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band, and then stuff the sock into olfactory offenders (read: your boots).
Leave for at least overnight, but longer if you can manage it– I mean, if you’re lucky enough to be hitting the slopes for several days in a row, don’t let a little thing like pungent peds stop you– good powder waits for no boarder!
Then again, your foot funk will only get that much worse in the interim– maybe just take a day or so off to fix the foot funk for good so you just don’t have to worry about it?
Speaking of moisture, another super speedy way to dry out the sweat from your stinky boots is literally just simple salt! It’s precisely like when you go to the beach and your lips become way chapped from all of the salty air, despite all of your best efforts with chapstick and lip balm. Salt, like the corn starch, is honestly one of nature’s little straws for any and all kinds of moisture.
Now, I’m not exactly saying that you need to dunk your stinky boots into a salty bath– no need for something so strenuous. Nah, we’re all about the simplest methods of de-stinkifying here, as far as we can help it. Using salt to get rid of smelly shoes literally couldn’t be easier, and it’s pretty much hands-off.
We’ll literally just be using the same methodology we used for corn starch and coffee grounds, when we dash in a couple of tablespoons of our drying salt (the plain old table variety of salt should work out for ya’ just fine– don’t go out and buy the super crazy expensive pink Himalayan salt for this or anything like that, alright?) and then give your stinky boots a good shake to evenly coat the entire inside. Alternatively, Stuff some socks with salt, then tie it off with a rubber band or something if you’d like to opt in for an easier strategy for clean-up.
Leave the salt in overnight, but giving it longer will allow for more moisture absorption (IOW sweat and stank absorption). After a while, the salt should start to clump up (after having absorbed a fair bit of sweat) and that’s when you’ll know for sure that you’ve got to switch it out (that is, if you haven’t already gone boarding and shaken out your boots in the interim).
This next idea we’ve got for how you can fix your footwear funk for good is just a wee bit different. Rather than focusing on the smelly boots themselves, we’ll instead be shifting our focus over to our feet. As in, your poor boots can go on and take a breather, because after all they’ve gone through, helping you to shred up the slopes, don’t they deserve it?
Now, I know that we’ve already kind of chatted about how it’s simply not your feet that produce all of the stank, but ok, the bacteria just love to hang out on both your smelly shoes and your feet. Even if your feet aren’t producing the funk, they are most certainly and without any kind of doubt creating the sweat that the smelly bacteria like to chow down on. Besides all of that, your feet are literally just free real estate, sans any kind of competition.
Well, no more! Give the bad-smelling bacteria the boot (in order to save your real boots) with a simple white vinegar foot soak. All you have to do is fill up a tub with one part white vinegar (or honestly any kind of the sour stuff you’ve got on hand– no need to get choosy if you’ve already got something like the apple cider variety already in the pantry), then add two parts water, and let your feet soak for just about 30 minutes or so.
The acidity from the vinegar will do the stinky bacteria in, giving your feet, socks, and shoes a good fresh start. Smelly feet lead to stinky shoes, but with this trick up your puffer-jacket sleeve that simply won’t have to be something you need to worry about!
We’re back at all y'all with yet another hot beverage (sorry not sorry). What can we say? If it works it just works! Black tea, like coffee from a few options ago (if you can even remember that far back), is perfectly capable of deodorizing those stinky snowboarding boots with ease!
I mean, it’s also kind of a bonus that after fixing your footwear funk you’ll get to relax and unwind with a solid cup of tea, so there’s that. I mean, like you can totally get two birds with one stone and get a drink and great-smelling shoes with this one here. Tea or coffee, take your pick, but you’ve got to admit that being doubly productive is always pretty rad.
What’s not so rad? Oh yes, those rank shoes of yours– let’s get back to the point on hand (on feet? Hopefully not, if your boots really are super bad-smelling). Black tea can fix that with one little ingredient called “tannins,” which are great for going after the gross-smelling bacteria. Thanks to these “tannins,” we’re going to rock your world, your shoes, and then you’ll be ready to rock the slopes, alright?
Just boil a few bags of black tea, stick the bags into your boots (how many will depend on how big your shoes– 2ish ought to be a good place to start per boot, just to evenly spread everything out, from the back of the shoe to the front). Let it all sit for a few hours, then make sure to wipe off any excess liquid from your shoes, and if you can, let it completely dry and air out for even longer, just so that there’s literally no remaining moisture for any surviving bacteria to scrounge on.
Want something super simple? We’ve got you, with LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer. It’s a super simple and amazingly effective spray that’ll take you and your snowboarding boots to new-smelling heights, and get rid of the bad smells for good. Hmm, lavender and tea tree oil over sweaty feet? For real, is it even really a question?
Not quite sure of how it’ll work for your boots? LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer has over 800 literally perfect 5 star ratings on Amazon with an overall average of 4.4 stars on Amazon. Seriously, just listen to this one reviewer, a certain “Josh P.” on Amazon, who found that that LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer worked for his boots as simply a final resort before chucking ‘em:
LUMI is also just kind of the coolest. They’re a small, family-owned business that proudly produces their products in the United States, only uses the highest quality of natural ingredients, and btw they don’t resort to any kind of testing on animals either. You can totally feel good, smell good, and snowboard well without any fear of footwear funk when you use their products. Kind of fabulous, am I right?
Simply spritz LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer once or twice into each of your snowboarding boots, and that’s it! No overnight, no waiting around– just spritz and then you can hit the slopes!
This one option here is probs one of the faster ones, and it’s effective too! Save your smelly shoes and fix the foot funk with LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer ASAP!
Let’s just do a quick run-through shall we? When first learning how to board did your teacher(s) just chuck ya’ down a double black diamond? I mean, if they did that sucks, ma’ dear reader, but hopefully it wasn’t too traumatizing? I mean, I know that as a skier I was personally glued to the greens and easy blues for a fair bit, which is why I’m entirely in support of reviewing and going over things a gazillion times just to make sure.
So let’s just do a few slow S-turns down a short little summary of everything you might need to help get you going on deodorizing your snowboarding boots.
Clean socks will be our first option, and it couldn’t possibly be more simple. Make sure that you’re hitting the slopes with only fresh socks. I mean it! Any leftover bacteria or moisture hanging out in your socks will cause the stank to just intensify over time. It’s true what they say, that preparation is literally key– say yay to fresh socks and nay to foot funk!
Coffee grounds will contain caffeine, which themselves will have nitrogen, and ok that’s the big star-player here. Literally a powerhouse of an ingredient, nitrogen will contribute to “adsorption,” which is just where the stank is going to stick in a thin film to the coffee grounds. So put the coffee grounds in a sock and tie it off or just put the grounds right in the boots, and leave it overnight or a little longer if you can.
Corn starch will absorb moisture, which is what the bacteria feeds off of (and produces the stink from), so just like the coffee grounds, you’ll put the corn starch into the sock (just a few tablespoons should do it) or simply dust up the insides of your shoes, and then leave it to sit overnight or for more time, should you have it.
You can do the same thing you did with the corn starch with your average garden-variety salt. It’s GREAT at absorbing sweat (read: the bacteria’s fave food), so just dust up your shoes or fill a sock, and then leave it in the boots for a while.
A white vinegar foot soak will directly get after the bacteria hanging out on your feet. All you have to do is put together a foot bath with one part white vinegar (or any kind– just whatever’s in the pantry already should work) and then add two parts water. Soak your feet for at least 30 minutes, and then rinse.
Black tea with its tannins will also make your boots and feet the worst kind of realty for the stinky bacteria, so boil a few bags and just stick ‘em into the smelly shoes and leave for a few hours before removing the black tea bags and letting your shoes dry out.
LUMI’s Lavender Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is our final option, and with just a spritz or two it’ll revive your boots and fix your smelly shoe problem for good! Spray away and successfully deodorize your snowboarding boots with ease!
]]>WRONG! There’s this tapping. Nah… it’s more like stamping. What the heck are they even doing up there? It sounds like someone has released a platoon of monkeys and given them free rein over their living room!
So my one remaining roommate and I troop upstairs, and tentatively knock on their front door and take a few cautious steps back. Who knew what shenaniganry awaited us? Anyways, it turns out that our upstairs neighbor had decided, amidst the pandemic and online schooling, to take up clogging as a hobby.
Not only that, but she had enrolled in a class, and she needed to practice, given that her grade depended on it. Trust me when I say that the week leading up to finals was particularly raucous.
No judgment on my dear neighbor, of course– I’m very happy that she found a healthy hobby for herself, and got to take a class out for it as well. On the other hand, I definitely invested in a good set of headphones.
I can’t say I’m a clogger myself, but I do find the sport to be wildly interesting. I mean, who the heck decided that wooden shoes were a good idea for anyone? Did the first cloggers not have downstairs neighbors (or maybe they did, and they simply wished to terrorize them)?
Or cleaning? How do you deodorize clogs? Well, ma’ dearest reader, if that’s a question you’ve been asking yourself, then read on! I may not be a professional clogger, but trust me when I say that I certainly do know a thing or two about how to make your clogs smell like new!
The first option that we’ll be chatting about is a simple damp cloth and mild soap. I mean, it should seem pretty obvious that plain old soap and water should work just fine, given that they do the same with our hands and such, but I get that you might have some hesitation on introducing even a little bit of water to your wooden clogs.
But first, a little bit of science-- it turns out that it is not in fact your feet that produce the crazy stank emanating from your rank shoes. Oh no– you see, “foot funk” does not actually come from your feet. Indeed, said bad smell hails from bacteria that lurk on your feet, in your socks, and yes, inside of basically all of your shoes.
These stinky bacteria tend to thrive and jive off of moisture (which, unfortunately, can easily be found on your feet from the normal amount of sweat) and dead skin cells (surprise, surprise– those are found in plentiful on your feet as well). So, in order to go after the funk, we really need to first go after the bacteria that produce it in the first place, am I right?
Soap and water work well for cleaning up your clogs just like they would your hands or any other part of your body. The water itself, you see, acts as a sort of mechanical force (a physical push, if you will) to shove the bacteria off of the surface you’re cleaning and down the drain.
Soap, on the other hand, is actually going to burst apart the membrane surrounding the bacteria’s cell. This membrane is usually like a wall or shelter for the little buggers, if that makes any kind of sense, and so without it, the bacteria can’t do much– especially stink up your shoes!
So get yourself some soapy water, and then gently suds up your clogs. The varnish on most clogs should be enough to protect the wood from just a little scrubbing, and before you know it, your dance shoes will be smelling great again!
Our next item up in our quest of anti-stank for your clogs is literally just simple baking soda. Yeah, that helpful magical ingredient that makes our cakes lofty and gorgeous instead of (still gorgeous and probably still edible) flat pancakes. Baking soda is totally good for more than just its obvious uses in the kitchen, and today we’re going to be talking about how it can save your stinky shoes from olfactory oblivion.
So, do ya’ remember how we talked about the typical dietary requirements for the rank bacteria lurking in the depths of your clogs? Moisture and dead skin cells, yes that’s right– a gold star for remembering and two more for doing something about it! We’re going to go after the moisture on this particular option, and take away a major source of nutrients for the bacteria smelling up your shoes, and with any luck, it will help to give you your clogs back, stank-free.
Baking soda, you see, absorbs moisture– like an actual and most literal sponge. Just slurps it down like it’s a milkshake bedecked in the most decadent whip cream and sprinkles and it’s the middle of the hottest July you’ve ever seen. A little bit of baking soda means a little bit of fabulousness when it comes to what your shoes will smell like.
So get yourself a few tablespoons of baking soda (read: magic) and sprinkle it on the insides of your clogs (preferably right after you’re done dancing, given that that’s when your shoes will be at their most sweaty and moist.
If you’re worried about clean-up afterward, simply place the baking soda into a sock, tie it off with like a rubber band or something similar, and then stuff it right on into the (soon-to-not-be) stinky clog. Leave the baking soda in overnight, or even for a few days if your clogging schedule gives you leeway to do so.
But maybe you want to save your baking soda for your actual baking adventures; I totally feel this– you couldn’t pry my baking gear and ingredients out of my cold, dead hands now that it’s officially autumn and thus the official BAKING SEASON. I mean, it’s chilly and cold outside, and I mean we can all frankly and freely admit that one of the best ways to stave off the chilly winter blues is warm pie, warm cookies, warm cake– basically toasty anything that has sugar and carbs.
You know what else doesn’t like the cold? Stinky bacteria! That’s right, y’all heard it here: cold can totally do the stank in. Cold temps will absolutely do a number on those rank little buggers, leaving you and your clogs to live your best funk-free life.
Since it's winter, I know that in many parts of the world right now it’s literally cold enough to just stick your clogs outside and call it good. There’s the wee little problem of snow and rain to worry about of course, however. That’s why we’ve got freezers, folks.
Oh yes, I said freezers. Before you call me crazy, hear me out on this one. Your clogs are stock-full of living creatures, and the cold from your freezer can essentially set them back enough that they aren’t able to produce the funk that leads you to want to chuck your clogs, set them on fire to preserve your remaining tortured nose hairs, etc, etc.
So simply stick your clogs in a plastic bag or pillowcase (keep your shoes and Ben and Jerry’s separate for the love of all things carby and sugary out there), and leave overnight or even longer if you can honestly manage it.
Perhaps, however, you’re of the somewhat popular opinion that shoes (particularly those of the smelly variety) ought not mix with the sorbets, in which case you also feel that the freezer just ain’t an option for you to deodorize your stinky shoes. That’s absolutely alright, no judgment here. Go forth and eat your shoe-free ice cream in peace, ma’ dear reader.
We’ve got other options that you can try out anyway. For example, NEWSPAPERS! If you still opt for the paper version of the news, then you’re in luck because the darn things have a secondary purpose of getting rid of footwear funk with ease and simplicity. Speedily eliminate funk with just a few scraps and then you’re free to try your hand at clogging greatness, sans-funk.
It all comes down to this one kind of glaze that printers will use for their newspapers, known just as “sizing.” This “sizing” thing basically absorbs moisture before it can blur the words beneath it. Without “sizing” most of our “daily rags” would be literal rags of sopping wet paper that has nothing legible left for us to read.
This handy-dandy glaze is good for us, because even as “sizing” does its good work for preserving the daily news, it also can be repurposed to serve our needs for absorbing the moisture from the sweat leftover in your stinky shoes, and that dear reader, as we’ve already run through, is a part of what gives the funky bacteria its oomph.
So crumple up a few balls of newspaper, stuff ‘em on into your crazy-smelling clogs, and then leave it all just to chill overnight. Longer is better, of course, but I’m going to respect that perhaps your clogging schedule is simply much too “clogged,” and full of previous engagements, if you will, to give up your dance shoes for more than a simple overnight.
I’m going to imagine that you just read the title of this option. Perhaps you paused and forced yourself to blink and reread it again, just to check that I as the author wasn’t being completely facetious. Well here we are, and I assure you that washing your feet thoroughly is anything but a matter of glibness. Trust me, or at least let me explain myself, m’kay?
So do you remember how we talked about how water and soap are actually pretty rad for getting rid of the rank smell emanating from your devastatingly unusable clogs? How, like, the water is a great mechanical force for literally just shoving off the buggers, and how the soap itself can actually burst apart the smelly bacteria’s outer membranes. Do you? Do you remember all of that?
Right, I’m assuming that you at least recall the shadow of perhaps 1% of it (I’ll be the first to admit that I have half the memory span of a guinea pig). I mean, I did just basically re-explain it all to ya’ so… Perhaps, now that you’ve reviewed it all, you can claim at least 50% memory retention? Maybe 30? Hopefully at least 15. Ok, yeah, we’re probs back to 1ish% again at this point. Go and reread it all if you need to, ya’ utter and absolute goose.
But soap and water are pretty basic. I don’t know how many times you need to hear this, again and again, over and over until it’s literally ingrained in your mind. Treat it like the Baby Shark song– rewatch it like season four of Stranger Things. IDK, just don’t forget that soap and water are totally your friends in this quest to save your clogs from smelly doom.
Literally all you have to do is when you shower, scrub between the toes and extra well on the heel and arch; honestly, just all over. We don’t want to leave the stinky bacteria on your feet, else the next time you try out your clogs, they’ll just be infested all over again with the funky little buggers, which would absolutely not be for the win.
And do this CONSISTENTLY! The bacteria will keep on trying, so that means that we ought to do so as well!
But even with the basics like consistently washing our feet thoroughly with soap and water, sometimes it just feels like it’s never enough. Or maybe the soap and water did work alright– like, perhaps even decently or better than expected– but there's still just that edge of funk that you haven’t quite been able to evict from your smelly shoes.
That’s quite alright, and that’s also why we’ve got another option that actually will work quite well in conjunction with one of the other stank solutions, given that it’s totally just one of the easiest things you can be doing to stop the footwear funk in its microbial tracks. For realzies, this next one is as simple as it could possibly get.
We’re going to be using cinnamon– ya’ know, that absolutely wonderful and certainly magical ingredient in our pumpkin spice lattes, donuts, Yankee candles, etc, etc? Oh yes, the sweet yet pungent eau de gingerbread, apple pie, and all things (especially carby things) that we like to bake come autumn and especially in winter.
Simply get about 2ish tablespoons of cinnamon and then dust it right on into your clogs. Like the baking soda option, give your shoes a wee quick shake to evenly distribute it all in and throughout, and then leave it to sit overnight, or longer if you can (the more time the cinnamon has to sit, the better-smelling your clogs will get). Shake the cinnamon out when you’re done and then clog to your bitty heart’s content.
Once again, if you’d like to aim for something easier, just put the cinnamon in a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something, and then stick that sock into the clogs.
If you’re worried about tripping up on combining any of these solutions, or it just all seems like way too many things to think about, and honestly you just want to go back to clogging, plus this positively ridiculous smelly shoe issue is taking up all the time in the world– ah, well if any of that applies to you, may I just suggest LUMI?
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is literally one of the best things on the open market for solving shoe stank. It has over 1000 5 star ratings on Amazon and an average of 4.4 stars overall. Don’t just take my word for it– here’s Amazon reviewer Paul J Haffey’s thoughts on the matter:
He’s right– with LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer it’s cheap and easy to save your current set of dancing shoes. A quick little spray and you’re done! The bottle is good for absolute ages, so you can consistently upkeep your clogs without fear of the stink returning!
LUMI also makes its products free from animal cruelty, is a small family-owned business, and produces all of its products in the US. I’m not kidding when I say that plenty of companies couldn’t hope to ever be so seriously fabulous, and with LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer your clogs will be fabulous and funk-free for good!
Simply spray LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer right on into your clogs, and you’re good to go! Good to dance and properly set to annoy your neighbors with all possible zest and enthusiasm!
So I’d like to just quickly summarize everything again, for those of us who don’t particularly want to slog our way through clog-cleaning methods (aren’t you glad I saved the worst puns for last?).
Just a damp cloth and some mild soap will start us out. The water will mechanically be a literal push for the bacteria, while the soap is going to pop the membrane surrounding their cells. Just gently clean out the insides and outsides of your clogs and then don’t forget to let ‘em dry out completely– any bacteria stragglers would simply love that you left them some snacks. Make sure that those clogs are dry!
Baking soda in particular is absolutely wonderful for helping our stinky clogs to totally dry out. Dash a few tablespoons into your clogs (give ‘em a good shake to get the insides coated all around) or, if you’d like to simplify, put the baking soda in a sock, tie it all off, and then stuff the sock into the clog. Either way, leave the baking soda to hang out in your clogs at least overnight, but longer if you think you can manage it.
Simply sticking your funky clogs in the freezer will also totally do the trick. The low temps will send the bacteria lurking in your stinky shoes into a spiral, meaning that they won’t be able to produce all of the stank. Put your clogs into a pillow case or like a plastic bag, and then just leave the clogs to get frostbite overnight, but longer if you think your 6-month-old casserole (oh yes, I’m calling you out on it) can handle clogs for neighbors for more time.
Newspaper and its “sizing” glaze will also absorb moisture, so ball it up and stuff it on into your clogs when you’re not using them. Leave overnight or longer (per usual, as I’m sure you’d expect).
Washing your feet thoroughly is a common cure for crazy shoe smells, but it’s common because it works! Get between your toes and over your arches when scrubbing in the shower to defeat the footwear funk!
Cinnamon will make your clogs smell like autumn, all things pumpkin-spiced, and general happiness, so you’re welcome. Dust the insides of your clogs with it, or fill a sock with the cinnamon, then put the sock into the clogs, and then leave overnight or longer-- since more pumpkin spice is always better, am I right?
LUMI’s Citrus Tea Tree Natural Shoe Deodorizer is the final one on our wee list of how to deodorize smelly clogs. Simply spritz it right on into your dance shoes, and then you’re set! One step, and then you can go right on ahead and dance away. Downstairs neighbors will simply have to learn to cope– and to better appreciate finer culture, of course:)
*Sighs*, alright let’s just think about this for a moment here. House slippers are the shoes that you can wear inside for as long as you’d like (with other shoes there’s the pressure to take them off, of course). Slippers actually keep your feet warm (whereas other shoes might just function to keep you stylish– which isn’t too terribly difficult because you’re already inherently fabulous;) ). PLUS, and ok this might be the real point of interest here, but these shoes also can look like whatever you want!
Slippers belong inside the house, so crazy colors? Of course. Funky shapes? Why not! References to a favorite fandom? Duh, that is positively necessary.
Anyway, so house slippers have my heart, now and for always. Do you want to know what slippers also have? FUNK! Stupid, freakin’ FOOT FUNK! I say nay! I’m putting the proverbial foot down (you know you love the puns) and I vote to do anything in our power to save our slippers from smelly disaster.
Do you want to know how to deodorize your house slippers easily without mucho hassle? Don’t you worry your pretty little mind because you and your smelly feet will be back to enjoying that slippered lifestyle, and smelling AWESOME in no time at all!
So I don’t know what kind of slippers you’re using these days to keep your feet warm around the house, but I’m going to go out on a limb here, and assume that they’re not exactly made to be washed in a machine. It kind of sucks, especially considering how much those shoes do for us.
What is pretty rad, however, is that the soles of our slippers typically are able to take a trip through the wash without too many harsh consequences to follow– aside from depriving yourself of your beloved slippers for like, what, a few hours while you wait for the insole to dry?
That last part is actually super super important– like WAY important, please don’t skip this whole drying part if you ever want your slippers to not smell like radioactive cheese that’s been microwaved, then reconstituted with something akin to bog water, and left to rot in a middle school locker room.
With that delightful imagery in your mind (and surely in your nose), let’s just talk about why wet footwear leads to way more wack wafts from your poor shoes. Said shoes have bacteria– it’s something that comes from not just your feet, but literally from everybody else’s on the planet. Having bacteria on your feet (and stinking them up) is totally and completely normal.
Said bacteria lives off of moisture (which comes in plentiful supply from your sweaty feet) and also leftover dead skin cells (of which there is a vertiably infinite amount also from your feet). That bacteria then produces the funk, and it sometimes will also migrate for green pastures (read: your socks and shoes) and then stink those up as well.
BUT if we deprive that bad-smelling bacteria of moisture and dead skin cells, then BOOM! No more footwear funk. So, sticking the insoles into the wash will help to get rid of most of the bacteria, but that which remains after a sudsy slip n’ dip through the washing machine will then be left out to dry by your very attentive self, and then when those insoles make it back to your slippers the bad smells will be gone for good! Never to return, thanks to both the machine and the dry-time.
Now that whole drying out step really deserves an option of its own. I really mean it! If you do any of these steps that involve moisture, then you don’t leave your slippers to dry out, and then wear them, well… don’t say that I didn’t warn you when you find that your slippers have absolutely eviscerated your nose hairs with their positively putrid stench.
You most definitely need to give your slippers a fighting chance against the bacteria by letting your slippers have their “me-time” separate from your feet. I mean, at the risk of repeating myself, your feet kind of sweat– which isn’t bad! It's totally natural for your feet to be sweaty! It’s just that if you don’t give your stinky shoes a break, then you’re basically allowing the smelly bacteria complete and total access to an all-you-can-eat buffet, microbial-style.
Store your shoes somewhere with a breeze, if you can, or simply near a window with plenty of some good ol' sunlight. The stinky bacteria won’t take too terribly kindly to such measures, leaving you to your stink-free slippers after the fact. It’s not you, and it’s certainly not your slippers, but too much time together simply spells (and smells like) disaster.
So when you’re not actively wearing your slippers, make sure that they’re stored in a spot that’s going to give the smelly bacteria a run for its money. Sunshine and moving air are amazing options, as well as just simple moving air currents (for example, an open foyer, as opposed to a shelf in a closet or something like that).
This next method will actually help out with that aforementioned drying process. If you want to speed up the drying and the destenching process of your poor slippers, then there’s a literal wealth of ingredients and materials we could use to help absorb the moisture quickly and easily. For now, we’ll just be focussing on simple corn starch.
Oh yes, that glorious ingredient that we mostly just use for puddings, custards, breading crispy fried chicken, the fillings for pies, and… whoops, sorry we’re talking about stinky feet, aren’t we? Corn starch is absolutely fabulous for cooking and baking shenanigans, and even more amazing (if that’s even humanly possible) at absorbing moisture.
All of that sweat that’s just left to stink up your house slippers will evaporate naturally after a little while– I mean, given enough fresh air and sunlight, the water cycle is totally just going to do its thing, alright? But the longer the moisture from the sweat is just left chilling in your shoes, the stinkier your footwear becomes, thanks to the dreadful bacteria we’ve been talking about.
Simply sprinkle a few tablespoons of corn starch into your house slippers, and then give them a good shake so as to make sure that the entirety of the inside is evenly coated– it wouldn’t do to have like the inner corner where the toes go to still smell, so this is fairly important.
If you’re worried about a messy cleanup (dusty footprints just ain’t the best, I get it), then feel free to put the corn starch into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something, and then leave that sock in the slipper.
Either way, leave the corn starch to hang out inside of your slippers at least overnight, or even longer if you can bear to part from your fav’ but funky footwear for such an extended period of time.
If you’re hesitant to introduce any kind of extra moisture to your shoes after reading all of that, then I certainly wouldn’t blame ya’ in the slightest. I mean, those options will absolutely work just fine as long as you leave some extra spare time for your house slippers to dry out after the fact before you try slipping them back on again.
But deodorizing your smelly slippers with simple soap is totally easy. This option is definitely the “set it and forget it” kind of vibe– the actual crock pot of an option on this list of solutions to your shoes’ stink, if you will.
Ok, but I’m not asking you guys to actually wash your smelly slippers. This is a water-free kind of method for cleaning your shoes. You see, while we use both water and soap to wash our hands, water itself isn’t exactly necessary for deodorizing your funky footwear. The water kind of adds a mechanical (IOW a pushing kind of) force to get the bacteria off and down the drain (which is great!) but soap by itself certainly does bring a lot to the table (and to your stinky shoes).
If we're looking just at soap, on the bacteria’s teeny-tiny microscopic level, the soap is going to split apart the fatty membrane surrounding the bacteria’s cell– said membrane, you see, normally acts as a sort of shield or outer guard against the rest of the fuzzy world inside of your poor smelly slippers. Once that membrane is burst, the bacteria are going to literally just fall apart.
So get a fresh bar of soap for each of your slippers, stick ‘em in and then leave everything for at least overnight, but I mean the soap totally isn’t going to hurt the slippers, so any more time you can spare with soap in there is most definitely recommended.
If you haven’t heard of the actually fabulous trendsetter that is charcoal quite yet, I’d like to know what rock you’ve been living under, and inquire as to whether there’s some spare nearby reality, because clearly it offers a sanctuary to the world unlike any other. If this lot is your case, your peace and serenity must truly know no bounds.
But if you’re like the rest of us poor plebeian mortals, then you’re certainly well aware of how charcoal has taken the wellness industry by storm. Charcoal supplements? Check. Charcoal foot scrubs? A check there as well. Charcoal ice cream? Why the actual frick’ not? Pray tell, what is it with everyone and charcoal these days?
Well, ok, this fanaticism spurred by charcoal may actually find basis in reality. Charcoal, you see, in the process of its production, forms these wee little microscopic holes that are really and truly great at absorbing things, which in your case, would be the wild wafts emanating from your stinky house slippers.
Most modern charcoal comes from baking coconut husks, coal, peat, wood, etc, etc. all until they’re literally just carbonized versions of whatever they were before. That’s when the aforementioned (and very very helpful) pores form, you see.
So get yourself a couple of tablespoons of charcoal, and secure it al inside of a small packet, like an envelope, or something similar that will fit inside of your smelly house slippers. Leave it to hang out overnight, but even longer if you manage it. We want to give the charcoal as long as possible to really absorb all of the odor, and really, just wear a thick fuzzy pair of socks if you’re truly that chilly, okay? You can go a day or two without your slippers, especially if it means that you’re saving them from their current pungent state of existence.
All of this deodorizing shenaniganry can feel a little overwhelming at times, so this next one up on our stank-free list for saving your house slippers is a simple method, and hopefully will make this whole stinky slipper thing stress-free as well as stank-free!
Steam cleaners, you see, are actually just like magic wands. They are certainly gadgets of wonder that any fine wizard or witch should be objectively jelly of, all because they’re literally just that amazing.
If you’re not too terribly familiar with these anti-wrinkle machines then you’re in for a treat, because ma’ dude, seriously they come in handy when you need a quick cleaning fix or if your clothes have… well, wrinkles. That’s seriously like what they’re for (or, at least that’s what I’ve always used them for). The hot steam fixes wrinkles really quickly (which is great when you’re attending a formal event, and simply forgot to pack your iron and ironing board– I know, a terrible idea, of course, but one’s purse can only reasonably be so large).
But beyond the wrinkles, steam cleaners are actually great for cleaning (wild, I know). The hot temperature of the steam isn’t exactly all that great for the bacteria– which is simply magical for us– and with a little steam cleaner one could wreak absolute havoc on the population of bad-smelling bacteria stinking up their beloved– yet really quite rank and we all know (and can smell) it– house slippers.
SO wave your steam cleaner wand like it’s the fairy godmother’s and bibbity-bobbity-boop your shoes to new nasal heights. As we’ve chatted about, the hot temps will zap the bacteria, and remember that without them, your shoes literally can’t produce crazy stenches on their own.
Make sure that you leave your house slippers to dry out COMPLETELY after you’ve used the steam cleaning wand, because if you’ll also care to recall, that funky bacteria also thrives and jives off of moisture. If there are any survivors after you’ve used the steam cleaner, we want to make sure that we don’t give them a head start.
But sometimes we simply don’t quite have the time to leave our shoes to dry off or to chill overnight, or literally anything that many of these options require us to do. Like, deodorizing shoes seriously is already kind of a pain in the butt (and for our poor abused noses) and why or why can’t life just be easy?
Well, LUMI’s Lemon Eucalyptus Spray has got your back! And your feet, I suppose– those too;) LUMI is a quick but still super effectual spray for your shoes.
It’s literally got over 10,000 five star ratings on Amazon, and an average of 4.4 stars overall. LUMI’s Lemon Eucalyptus Spray is the company’s BEST-SELLING product overall, which if that doesn’t say something to ya’ then perhaps you just need to hear from an actual customer themselves.
Let’s take a look at the thoughts from our lovely Amazon reviewer “AH” here (their name accurately sums up our feelings on the product as well). They themselves had house slippers that simply wouldn’t survive the harrowing trip through any washing machine, and so LUMI was brought in:
Besides being effective, LUMI’s Lemon Eucalyptus Spray also comes from a company that legitimately and most actually cares how their product is made. Only the highest quality of ingredients go into this foot spray, none of their products are ever tested on animals, and it’s all made in the USA!
Beyond all of that, you already know that you’re getting a pretty amazing product, but LUMI is also a small, family-owned business. Fabulous, inside and out, am I right?
Each of your smelly shoes only needs a spray or two, and one little bottle is totally going to last you a long time. LUMI’s Lemon Eucalyptus Spray simply needs to be spritzed straight on into your stinky house slippers, and then you’re good to go! That’s literally it! Badda-boom-badda-bing!
And now we get to review it all. So grab your (hopefully now fresh and freakin’ fabulous) house slippers, prop up your feet, and go over all of these amazing options just one more time for kicks.
Washing the insoles in a regular old washing machine is option numero uno, where all you have to do is that, and then let those insoles dry out COMPLETELY. Now, I mean actually, and most utterly dry. I don’t mean that the left toe is mostly dry but kind of squelches. I don’t mean that whoops you ran out of time and desperately need your slippers ASAP (was that sentence that you thought you’d hear today?) and they’re still pretty darn soggy but oh well. NONE of that, okay? Dry slippers for the win, else you give that win to the stinky bacteria who thrive off of all of the remaining moisture!
That stupid dang moisture is actually why airing out your slippers is the next one we’ll be reviewing. Simply letting your house slippers chill in an arid spot when they’re not on your feet is bound to dry out the rank bacteria and leave your slippers smelling like new!
Corn starch also takes on any and all leftover moisture in your soon-to-be fresh footwear, basically just absorbing it like a literal sponge. Put a few tablespoons of corn starch into your slippers and give them a good shake to evenly coat all surfaces. If you’re worried about cleaning up any kind of mess, stick the corn starch in a sock, tie it off with a rubber band, and then stick the sock in the shoe. Either way, leave the corn starch inside of the slippers at least overnight, but longer if you can help it.
Leaving plain old soap inside of your house slippers also gives the stank the slip (if you will mind pardoning the pun;) )-- this option is literally just leaving a bar of soap in each of your slippers overnight or longer– pretty standard, but it’ll also leave your house slipper smelling pretty great. If it works for our hands, it’ll totally work for our slippers, ya’ hear?
Then you just need to transfer the charcoal from charcoal tablets (easily found at plenty of grocery stores) and then you get yourself a small envelope or package, fill it up with this great odor-absorbing material, stick it into your slippers, and then you’re done! I mean, leave the whole thing overnight or longer, but that’s per usual– nothing new to you, a shoe deodorizing expert, am I right?
Steam cleaners just need a quick wave over your stinky slippers and then you’re basically good to go! I mean, leave it all to dry, of course, but dry and stank-free are totally synonymous at this point, so just remember to leave your house slippers to dry out after the high temps from the steam get after the stinky bacteria, and then you’re all set and good to go!
LUMI’s Lemon Eucalyptus Spray is the final one on our list, and also likely the most simple. Spritz and call it a day! No overnight or longer needed to dry something out, and no socks or something in your shoes to worry about removing later. One bottle literally lasts you forever and then some (give or take a year or so, of course) and the company is absolutely the coolest. High quality ingredients, free from animal cruelty, and made in the US!
Your house slippers are going to smell fabulous, you’re going to feel great, and well I suppose you’re always looking like your fabulous self, so that won’t change, but trust me when I say that your slippers will smell like their best selves after a quick spritz or two of LUMI! You can totally fix smelly shoes for good with this stuff!
]]>Perhaps there were several Olympic judges simply waiting in the wings, ready to give me several golden medals for my shockingly incredible (and assuredly perfect) first performance as an unexpectedly talented ice skating amateur.
Instead of my expected frozen glory, however, my face was promptly introduced to the cold ice skating rink. Little me certainly hadn’t anticipated how truly difficult ice skating actually is.
In literal seconds, my respect for ice skaters everywhere (but especially for the crazy-good ones who competed at events such as the Olympics) increased significantly. It seemed as though ice skating was monumentally more difficult than I had initially given it credit for being.
Another thing that I hadn’t given the great sport of ice skating credit for? The absolutely incredible funk that radiates from ice skates!
I mean, I had encountered smelly shoes before, but what the heck was I supposed to do with funky skates? Those shoes literally came with little sharp blades attached! I obviously couldn’t subject my poor washing machine to the kind of danger a skate’s trip through the wash would do.
It would be like, “WANTED: Ice Skates, for the murder of one poor laundry machine.” But, I mean, how else is one supposed to go about cleaning their funky footwear?
I’ve since learned a thing or two, about both skating and the (stinky) ice skates themselves. Trust me, my dear, yet quite possibly funky reader, when I say that there is an innumerable amount of methods by which we can totally save you and your skates.
Deodorize your ice skates for good with any of the following tips and tricks!
Alright, so I’m sure you read the title of this first option, and felt the need to doubly check that the prescription for your glasses was actually correct, because… like, does that actually say “Freezer”?
Yes, indeed it does! You read it correctly, and if you choose this option, your ice skates will smell great for good! There’s actually totally some sciency information to back this all up, so before you doubt me, just keep reading to see what you think, alright? It sure sounds crazy, I’ll give ya’ that, but I pinky-promise that using a freezer to help deodorize shoes can and will work out.
So the whole reasoning behind this is the why of your shoes and feet smelling. You see, it’s wild because it’s not actually your feet that are doing the smelling. In actual fact, my dear reader– it’s bacteria!
More specifically, it's the bacteria that lives on your feet, which in turn stink up your poor peds and shoes. This bad-smelling bacteria essentially chows down on both the moisture from your sweat and also any spare dead skin cells just left chilling on your feet (of which there’s a veritable plenitude, so said bacteria never really are going to go hungry).
Essentially, our job, if we want to fix our smelly shoes, will be to go after those bacteria with no mercy and lots of zest on our parts. Indeed, any and all manner of enthusiasm ought to be applied if you want to save your footwear from funky doom.
Freezers are great for going after the bacteria because they’ll literally just make it so that the bacteria has a difficult time thriving and jiving on your shoes, and anything that’s bad for the bacteria is awesome for our nose hairs.
Stick your skates into a pillowcase (ice skates and ice cream don’t mix, alright ma’ dude?), and then place that pillowcase into the freezer overnight. If you can go without your skates for more time than that and want to leave them in there a bit longer, go on right ahead, although just make sure not to eventually forget your poor shoes amidst the Ben and Jerry’s, alright?
But if you want to keep the skates out of the freezer, there are plenty of other options for us to work with. Black tea bags are the next item we have lined up on the agenda for you, and trust me when I say that it’s a good one.
Yes, I know very well that black tea is meant to be a drink, and if we’re being honest with ourselves, we wouldn’t want to waste good tea on feet. A drink of their own? Nah, feet are already kind of expensive, what with all of the shoes, socks, and spa trips, am I right?
BUT trust me when I say that black tea absolutely is one of the most ideal and effective solutions to stinky shoes that there is. Your skates, feet, schnozz, and dignity will absolutely thank you for this.
Black tea is effective at deodorizing all kinds of shoes because it has this one little ingredient called “tannins” in it. Tannins are bad news for bacteria, which is GREAT news for all of us hoping to clean out our smelly shoes.
In order to deodorize your ice skates with black tea, get yourself a few bags, boil ‘em, and then stick 'em into your skates. Allow it all to sit for at least an hour (although you can totally feel free to go for longer, should you choose to do so), wipe off the excess liquid and then you’re good to go!
Actually, then you should totally just go and brew yourself a spare cup of tea, because you deserve to celebrate smelling great, ma’ dude.
This next one we’ve got lined up for ya’ is easy-peasy, and will deodorize your ice skates with absolutely minimal effort.
Baking soda is literally one of the most simple and effective manners we’ve got for getting rid of that funk, and as an aside you can also use it for baked goods, so I mean, eat well and smell super, because why not do both? Bake cakes, smell great, as I’m always apt to say!
Baking soda gets its super punch from being able to absorb any and all kinds of moisture (including that from your sweat) which, as we’ve already run through, is essentially what helps to feed those crazy-smelly bacteria that live in and stink up all of your poor shoes. Baking soda dries up the moisture like a sponge, leaving your ice skates dry and smelling ah-maaaazing!
If you’re wanting to use baking soda to deodorize your funky ice skates, you’ve got basically two options to work with. You can one, just go the simple route, and sprinkle your baking soda directly into your ice skates, giving the baking soda direct access to the sweaty shoes, or you could as a second option opt to put the baking soda in a sock, tie it off with like a rubber band or something similar, and then stuff that sock into the stinky shoe.
Either or work perfectly fine, although you’ll just want to be aware that you’ll have to clap the baking soda out of your skates once you're through with it (wouldn’t want dusty white footprints after practice, am I right?).
Regardless of which option you think you’ll go with, make sure to leave the baking soda in your pungent peds for at least overnight, but you could totally go a bit longer if you can spare your skates between your time on the rink.
Ok, but baking soda can be messy, and maybe you literally just don’t bake at all, so you don’t have it in your pantry, and you think life sucks now because you don’t have all of the stuff you need to *properly* deodorize your smelly shoes.
I’m here to tell ya’ that you’re WRONG! There are plenty of other wonderful and effective manners by which you might successfully sock the stank for good! Salt, being one of them.
Because really, if you don’t have salt in your pantry, idk how to help you dude– I mean, I could totally help you to deodorize your shoes with another alternative option, but if you don’t have salt then your home cooking probably sucks, and that just sounds like a “you” problem, if you know what I mean, ma’ most dear, yet quite likely smelly reader.
But if you are a sane human being and do have salt in your place of residence (a high-five to you, good sir), then consider yourself fully prepared to deodorize your ice skates, because that’s literally all we’ll be needing. And maybe a sock. Actually, most assuredly a sock will be required for this venture, should you decide to go with the easy-to-clean-up methodology of this option.
Salt slurps up moisture, basically just like baking soda could, and it’s that supremely awesome trait which is going to save your shoes.
Simply salt the insides of your ice skates like they’re under-seasoned food, give the shoes a good shake to make sure that the insides are all fairly coated, and then leave it all to marinade at least overnight, and longer should you like better results and have the time to spare your shoes.
Stick the salt in a sock, just like went over in the baking soda option, should you opt to make it easier for future you to clean everything up.
Had enough of the options that just go after the sweat in your shoes? Do you want your ice skates to actually smell great, beyond just smelling rank? Do you, by chance, enjoy the tangy scent of lemon or lime?
If you don’t, um well sorry, take a look at the other six options (and so sorry, you must be deathly allergic to citrus, because lemon and lime are pretty swell, and I literally have no other idea as to why you would avoid them).
Lemon and lime peels work for deodorizing your stinky skates because of how naturally acidic they are. Remember that bacteria? Yeah, so it like really just doesn’t appreciate zest like we do. While we may enjoy the puckery feeling of a good, cool glass of lemon/limeade, bacteria certainly wouldn’t.
The acid from some lemon or lime peels is enough to do said bacteria in, leaving you and your skates free from the funk!
Worried that using literal fruit peels in your ice skates for any amount of time will just lead to mold and other unsavory (and even worse than the sweaty foot funk) results? Don’t you worry, because the acid in the lemon and lime peels is also enough to fend off mold bacteria, at least for a length of time. Like, be careful, don’t be dumb and leave the peels in your shoes for ages, and you and your shoes should totally be fine.
And smelling better than ever! Simply get yourself some peelings from a lemon or lime– enough to cover the sole of each ice skate– and then stick them into the shoes, leaving for at least overnight. Said peels are literal pieces of fruit, so make sure not to leave them in for too much longer– like, over a day would definitely not be great. Seriously, just don’t be dumb and use your own (assuredly fantastic) common sense.
I would also suggest a white vinegar foot soak, in case you feel like you just want the bacteria and the funk gone-gone– no worries about your ice skates smelling like lemon or lime, or getting salty granules everywhere (it’s always the smallest pieces that get stuck inside of your shoes, am I right? And then like hours later they’re the most annoying things in the world until you can finally get them out– totally the most actual and literal worst).
A white vinegar foot soak is an incredibly effective way to get rid of the funk in your ice skates. Remember all of our chit-chat about the smelly bacteria? Those show-stopping stinkers? Yeah, those guys– they’re real headliners, sadly enough. But not for long when we use white vinegar!
Or honestly any kind of vinegar will really work for this one, here. I mean, like apple cider vinegar could probs stain easier should you spill during this option, but there are loads of different types of vinegar that likely wouldn’t stain, and that you also likely have just lying about in the pantry.
Vinegar, you see, works because of how acidic it is. Just like when we discussed the lemon or lime peels, all of that acid isn’t too terribly great for the smelly bacteria, which is absolutely great for us and our noses!
To use white vinegar to deodorize your shoes, simply fill up a bath (or proper-sized container you can use to soak your feet) and fill it all up with a mixture made up of one part white vinegar and two parts water (temperature doesn’t really make a huge difference, one way or another, so literally whatever is comfy for ya’ will work just fine, ok?). Soak your feet for at least 30 minutes, thoroughly rinse off, and then pat dry when you’re done.
Your ice skates deserve to be good and deodorized, and so if none of the other options are your vibe, then no worries at all! We’ve got your back! And your feet! And the ice skates themselves! Mucho care, and zero funk, ma’ dude! Say nay to the funk, and yay to LUMI!
Ice skating is a crazy-difficult sport. Sweating is a normal part of gliding across the ice. LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is a natural and supes effective product for clearing up any and all stank for your feet and shoes. Over 600 people have given the product a PERFECT 5 star rating on Amazon, averaging out at a 4.6 star rating. Antony E. Fasse here talks about how it does the job without all of the usual drawbacks for any and all sports:
Your ice skates (and your actual feet themselves!) totally deserve the best of the best. LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder actually prevents moisture in your shoes, and uses only the highest quality of natural ingredients to do it. Kaolin clay, bentonite clay, zinc oxide, etc. are all great for your skin, as well as being freakin’ amazing for deodorizing your shoes, to boot (oh, don’t mind me and the puns– you know ya’ love ‘em ;) ).
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is made with only the best, high quality and natural ingredients. It’s crafted free of animal cruelty and LUMI also just happens to be a small family-owned business on top of it all.
Just a little bit of LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder in each of your ice skates takes care of the funk before it can become a problem!
Let’s review it all, because if ice skating has taught us a darn thing, it’s that reviewing and practicing is what makes anything perfect!
Our first option was sticking the ice skates in the freezer, which will totally do a number on the crazy-smelly stank wafting up from your poor pungent peds. Stick the skates into a pillow case, and then stick that into the freezer for as long as you’re not on the rink if you really want to get rid of the stank for good, although simply storing them in there overnight will absolutely work just fine!
Black tea has these pretty swell things called “tannins,” which will totally show those stinky bacteria what’s what. Simply stew your brew (boil it, I mean), and stick the black tea bags in your skates. Make sure to carefully dab away any excess moisture, and then let your shoes air-dry before calling it good!
Baking soda will actually dry out the moisture, which basically is going to leave no moisture for the dreaded bacteria to chow down on, which basically means no funk for us! Heck to the freakin’ yeah, if I do say so myself!
Simply dust the insides of your skates with some baking soda or, for an easier way to clean up, just put the baking soda into a sock, tie it off with a rubber band or something similar, and then stick the stuffed sock into the ice skates. Regardless of what method you’d rather go for, leave it be for at least overnight, but def longer if you can manage it!
Salt can easily replace baking soda, as it slurps down any and all excess moisture. Grab some from your pantry, and a dash a couple of tablespoons of salt (or to taste, as the cookbooks are always saying about seasoning ;) ) directly into your skates or into a handy sock you’ll tie off, then leave it be overnight or longer should you be so able.
Lemon and lime peels work because of how acidic they are, essentially doing the bacteria in. Stick the peels into your ice skates, and let it all sit overnight, although make sure to be cautious about how long you leave it (literal fruit, if I might remind you, dear reader) plz and thank you very kindly.
A white vinegar foot soak also works well for taking care of the funk for good. Get a tub for your feet, fill with one part white vinegar and two parts water, temperature given at your preference. Soak for about half an hour, and then rinse your feet off! The acidic vinegar works just as the lemon or lime peels would– thank goodness for natural acidity, because it’ll def do a whammy on those funky bacteria!
LUMI’s Natural Shoe and Foot Powder is the last one we have in our lineup of methods you can use to easily deodorize your ice skates, but it’s certainly and most definitely not the least! A few dashes of some of this all-natural and all-amazing stuff, and you’ll have managed to fix your smelly shoes in literally almost no time at all!
Your ice skates may need a little help to smell great, but with any of these options, you’ll be back to rocking the rink instead of something rank in no time flat!
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