How to remove the bad smell from shoes?

In daily life, shoes will easily become smelly after wearing them for a day, especially shoes with low breathability will have a more obvious smell. There are many reasons for the smell of shoes. Generally, it is caused by sweating of the feet and poor air permeability, which will easily breed bacteria in the shoes. There are many ways to remove the smell of shoes, and you can use fruit peels to achieve the purpose of deodorization.

How to get rid of bad smell in shoes?

1. Put a small bag of quicklime (a desiccant commonly found in foods such as rice cakes) into your shoes.

2. Tear the grapefruit peel into small pieces and put them into your shoes.

3. Put your feet in hot water at 50 to 60 degrees Celsius for several times, 15 minutes each time, 1 to 2 times a day.

4. When washing your feet, add 10 to 15 ml of rice vinegar to the water, mix well, and soak your feet for about 15 minutes, once a day for three to four days, and the foot odor will disappear.

5. When washing your feet, add 50 grams of alum to hot water and soak for about 10 minutes to remove foot odor.

6. Grind 15 grams of Pueraria root into fine powder, add 15 grams of white wine, and then add appropriate amount of water, boil it and wash your feet with it once a day for a week to remove foot odor caused by foot sweat.

7. Before going to bed every night, dip a cotton ball or cloth in a little alcohol and apply it evenly to the inside of the rubber and sneakers you just took off. Wait until they are dry before wearing them the next morning. After two weeks of doing this, your shoes will no longer smell.

8. Take an appropriate amount of dehydrated alum or dry lime powder, put it in a small cloth bag, and place it in your shoes before going to bed every night.

9. Crush a few mothballs into powder, sprinkle it inside clean shoes, and then put an insole on them. This way, you will not have smelly feet when wearing them. Mothballs should not come into direct contact with the feet, and the mothballs inside only need to be replaced every other week. Camphor balls have a good antibacterial effect and can kill a large number of bacteria that multiply due to moisture, so there will be no odor.

Causes of Smelly Shoes

This is due to excessive sweating on the soles of the feet. There are about 620 sweat glands per square centimeter on the soles of the feet. The other parts of the body have the same area of ​​only 143 to 339 sweat glands, which means that the palms and soles of the feet have several times more sweat glands than other parts of the body. When people become more active, the weather is hot, they are nervous, or they eat spicy or hot food, they will sweat a lot.

In addition to water and salt, sweat also contains lactic acid and urea. Under conditions of excessive sweating, the bacteria on the feet multiply and decompose keratin, which, together with the urea and lactic acid in the sweat, produces a foul odor. If you wear tightly covered hiking shoes, sneakers, or leather shoes, and there is no air circulation, the odor will become stronger and stronger. Once you loosen your shoelaces, the odor will hit you in the face.