Even fashionable and expensive shoes are made not only from leather, but also from synthetic materials. Budget ones are made from cheap pigskin or leatherette. In everyone's favorite sneakers, genuine leather is used only on the toe or heel, but the inside is usually pure synthetics.
Consequently, the leg “breathes” poorly and sweats, and an unpleasant odor accumulates inside during the day. Washing your feet and treating them with special creams is not enough. You also need to remove the smell from your shoes. To do this, there are three most popular tricks, from which you can choose the most acceptable and effective.
Tea bags - an army invention
Smart people serve in the army. Anyone who has gone through army school knows all the delights of military combat boots, which soldiers wear both in winter and summer. Nothing can overcome the aroma of sweaty feet, but the soldiers found a good remedy - tea bags.
Tea perfectly absorbs all odors, and this is easy to check. The most affordable thing is to use tea bags, even cheap ones. Remove the insoles or place one or two tea bags directly on them inside a pair of shoes. If the inside of the insole is wet, you need to dry it or stuff it with paper for several hours, and then use tea. Leave it overnight and in the morning the unpleasant smell will disappear.
The famous “star” will help
What do the French do to rid their sneakers of bad odors? In their pharmacies they sell round jars with a balm similar to our “Star Balm”, the composition is the same. The insoles are taken out of the sneakers, the shoes and the insoles are sent separately to the closet, where there is always an open jar of such balm.
In especially severe cases, when the feet sweat ungodly, the person suffers from a fungus, the balm is taken on a cotton swab, and the stick is placed in sneakers. Of course, this does not exclude foot care, but the method combats the odor that remains in the sneakers just fine. We can also use our “Star”, there is nothing complicated here.
Frost will kill the unpleasant aroma
Another trick to remove the “odor” from shoes is to freeze them in the freezer. Even better - in the freezer, where the temperature is lower. How it works?
Bacteria that cause sweat odor actively multiply in a warm, humid environment. And they die in the cold. Therefore, a simple method of freezing will help. It is recommended to remove the insoles and freeze them separately.
Here are three simple but effective tricks that will help remove odor from shoes.
