How do you take the stink out of the shoes?

Okay, ancillary question to this one: I have a pair of Teva sandles, and after wearing them, my feet smell like a combination of ammonia and wet dog. I've tried scrubbing them with a bleach solution, but it doesn't seem to help. Other shoes don't do this and my feet normally don't stink all that much. Any recommendations?
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I've had two or three pairs of Teva sandals and whatever they make the soles with seem to create odor when worn, even if only for a breif period. I don't have this problem with Chaco sandals.
 
i have heard that drying them together with teabags will remove much of the odour
 
FoxholeAtheist said:
Okay, ancillary question to this one: I have a pair of Teva sandles, and after wearing them, my feet smell like a combination of ammonia and wet dog. I've tried scrubbing them with a bleach solution, but it doesn't seem to help. Other shoes don't do this and my feet normally don't stink all that much. Any recommendations?
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My Timberland sandals do this, and I have about zero foot odor, normally (no, really). I can clean them with anything and everything, but the next time I wear them, same thing at the end of the day, because it's not the sandals, it's my feet. It's not real bad, but it drives me nuts not knowing how to stop it.
'Course it has to happen with my favorite pair of footwear :mad:
 
I had a pair of Columbia shoes that smelled like a horse barn when I got them home from the store. Washed in soap and rinsed with baking soda, helped a bit, bit it was definitely in the rubber.

Some leather tanning "solutions" can be ammonia based and cause some funk.

If smelly feet are a problem, try taking a zinc suppliment. When I was a teen, back in the stoned ages, had feet that could "knock a buzzard off a sh-t wagon". Doctors nurse told me about zinc, tried it, and soon had no more excessive (raunchy) foot odor problems.
 
I have seen glowing testimonials about the socks with the silver plated X-static fibers that are supposed to kill all kinds of little beasties on the feet and keep them from odorizing, but I have never tried them. I gues this also would not work for those who abstain from socks. I do not really think this would help chemical conditions that do not involve microbes.
 
After wearing shoes without socks on for a few days, shoes will (obviouisly) get a bad odor. Put some baby powder on the insole to soak up the sweat.
 
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