<p>Well, I'm a freshman and I was wondering how everyone is dealing with the smelly feet.
Last semester, I feel like I really bothered and annoyed people around me with my smelly feet. The problem is that I'm rarely in my dorm room, so I go out for classes in the morning at 8 a.m. and stay in the library till 10 p.m. and then finally I take off my shoes in my dorm around 10:15 p.m.
Hmm~the unbearable smell of my feet..It is undesirable. My shoes stink from my feet and I hate to admit, my feet really really stink. </p>
<p>I tried different things, like I took off shoes during studying in the library, but I gave up due to people looking at my socks. </p>
<p>Not wearing the same pair of shoes two days in a row eliminated the problem for me. Oftentimes it’s not one’s feet that smell, but bacteria living in the shoes. They strive in your sweat, so anything you can do to keep your shoes dry will help (e.g. using powder or letting shoes dry out for a day before wearing them again).</p>
<p>If your feet smell really badly (even after you take a shower), your feet might have an infection that requires medical attention.</p>
<p>Use babypowder to help stop the smell. Wash your feet every day, and try wearing different pairs of shoes.</p>
<p>Also, LYSOL. You can wash your shoes twenty times and the smell can still be there. I used to work in a haunted house, and trust me, my shoes really began to stink after a while. Lysol pretty much cleared up the smell at the end of the day.</p>
<p>If you put a spoonful of baking soda in each shoe, tap it around a bit, and let it sit overnight, it’s very effective in deodorizing them. The next day, hold each shoe over the garbage and essentially beat the crap out of them until the powder mostly falls out. The only downside is that this may leave a bit of the residue as powder, but this will continue to deodorize the shoes while you wear them. The upside of this method is that baking soda is probably the most functional substance on the planet, so it never hurts to have a box around.</p>
<p>Get sneaker balls, I like the minty ones because I hate the smell of the other kind. Or like others have suggested, baking soda works also. </p>
<p>I’m a dance major so I sweat in ballet shoes every day, those things start to smell horrible! I definitely throw them in the wash every few weeks but I also do kickboxing and other gym stuff so sneaker balls save my gym shoes.</p>
<p>lol I have the same problem, and so does one of my friends. =P And I only have one pair of shoes and one pair of winter boots, so I really can’t switch them up.</p>
<p>I’ve used baby powder with starch in it, but that hasn’t worked all that well (it helps, but not a lot), so I’m going to try baking powder when I get back. I’ve heard that works really well. I’ve also tried putting newspaper in my shoe overnight (because that’s supposed to work somehow), but it didn’t do anything.</p>
<p>I wonder if spraying something that kills “odor causing bacteria” (like some Lysol products) would work. I might try that sometime too.</p>
<p>I bought an ionic device to put inside husband’s shoes overnite. It works wonders for the shoes , but you have to keep up with it and use it on a regular basis
I think I got it from Brookstone , or the now defunct Sharper Image</p>