Stinky work boots and trainers/sneakers are a fact of life for some people. All it takes is for fungus or mold to get established in the hot humid environment, and it will be transferred from shoe to shoe.
This is where boric acid comes in. Despite being an acid, it's so weak that it doesn't even taste acidic. It has a lower toxicity than table salt, but should not be ingested. When sprinkled into footwear it kills the bacteria, mold and fungus that cause all the problems and your footwear will literally just stop smelling bad.
It only takes a light dusting every month or so to keep further problems at bay.
Boric acid is cheap and readily available online except where the pharmaceutical industry has succeeded in banning it from sale due to its impact on their sales of ineffective medicated foot powders.
Most suppliers provide it in a coarse granular form like white sugar, but you can turn it into a finer powder if required by running it through a blender.
Other common uses for boric acid are eradication of insects, fireproofing building materials, treating wood against wet and dry rot, a dry friction modifier (it creates a slippery surface), welding flux and many other applications.
As a 100 year old home remedy it was used for sterilising wounds (and is still used in hospital dressings), curing fungal problems and treating infected eyes.
If you have severe foot problems that have resulted in broken skin and subsequent infection, then another classic treatment which is endorsed by British medical authorities is the use of potassium permanganate foot soaks.
Potassium permanganate is also readily available online, and to make a foot soak you dissolve a tiny amount in a bucket of hot water (just enough to make it a light pink colour) and bathe your feet in it for a good length of time (while browsing the Internet or watching TV). That will rapidly bring infected feet under control.
Note that potassium permanganate will stain everything it touches. Be careful to only use a tiny amount (literally a few crystals in a foot soak), and take care to avoid spilling the resultant pink water on anything that you value. The chemical is a strong oxidiser and should be kept securely in its own container.
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This is where boric acid comes in. Despite being an acid, it's so weak that it doesn't even taste acidic. It has a lower toxicity than table salt, but should not be ingested. When sprinkled into footwear it kills the bacteria, mold and fungus that cause all the problems and your footwear will literally just stop smelling bad.
It only takes a light dusting every month or so to keep further problems at bay.
Boric acid is cheap and readily available online except where the pharmaceutical industry has succeeded in banning it from sale due to its impact on their sales of ineffective medicated foot powders.
Most suppliers provide it in a coarse granular form like white sugar, but you can turn it into a finer powder if required by running it through a blender.
Other common uses for boric acid are eradication of insects, fireproofing building materials, treating wood against wet and dry rot, a dry friction modifier (it creates a slippery surface), welding flux and many other applications.
As a 100 year old home remedy it was used for sterilising wounds (and is still used in hospital dressings), curing fungal problems and treating infected eyes.
If you have severe foot problems that have resulted in broken skin and subsequent infection, then another classic treatment which is endorsed by British medical authorities is the use of potassium permanganate foot soaks.
Potassium permanganate is also readily available online, and to make a foot soak you dissolve a tiny amount in a bucket of hot water (just enough to make it a light pink colour) and bathe your feet in it for a good length of time (while browsing the Internet or watching TV). That will rapidly bring infected feet under control.
Note that potassium permanganate will stain everything it touches. Be careful to only use a tiny amount (literally a few crystals in a foot soak), and take care to avoid spilling the resultant pink water on anything that you value. The chemical is a strong oxidiser and should be kept securely in its own container.
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You can buy it in pharmacies here but I never knew this, I only used it as cockroach poison.
Thanks for ruining the other part of my foot fetish… sheesh!
This definitely qualifies as a "one weird trick the shoe industry doesn't want you to know!!!1!" 🤔
Can you put Boric acid on the skin? Thank you in advance.
Hi Clive and the rest I the family. Hope you are all well . Yet anouther great tip from Clive I can ashore you this works . Altho please be carefull about poofing a shit load in your trainers before you go on Holliday ! As i found that it could be mistaken for drugs resultig in full strip search plus detain you for several hours whilst being serched for drugs
That’s cocaine. You’re not fooling us bud.
Came for electronics left with foot knowledge. Fantastic.
Pretty hard to find this stuff. I just ordered some from the Netherlands. Clive already helped me with dimming my chandeleer, so ill give this a go.
Another cure for any type of foot issues is an axe
5 years later them fungi in my books will now finally suffer the consequences of making it burden for so long
I sprinkled boric acid in the corners of my garage and it killed the cockroaches that were coming in from the street under the garage door
Is this the same thing as borax “laundry booster & multi-purpose cleaner” ?
Where to get boric acid?
Thank you, this information is what I needed. I feel like shoe odour sprays only cover up the smell and don't get rid of bacteria.
I sprinkle some on my sandwich every day to help with athletes foot
Foot powders with boric acid were formerly used against sweaty feet. Due to the limited antiseptic effect and the risk of poisoning it is no longer used in foot powders nowadays.
Stinky work boots and trainers/sneakers are a fact of life for some people. All it takes is for fungus or mold to get established in the hot humid environment, and it will be transferred from shoe to shoe.
This is where boric acid comes in. Despite being an acid, it's so weak that it doesn't even taste acidic. It has a lower toxicity than table salt, but should not be ingested. When sprinkled into footwear it kills the bacteria, mold and fungus that cause all the problems and your footwear will literally just stop smelling bad.
It only takes a light dusting every month or so to keep further problems at bay.
Boric acid is cheap and readily available online except where the pharmaceutical industry has succeeded in banning it from sale due to its impact on their sales of ineffective medicated foot powders.
Most suppliers provide it in a coarse granular form like white sugar, but you can turn it into a finer powder if required by running it through a blender.
Other common uses for boric acid are eradication of insects, fireproofing building materials, treating wood against wet and dry rot, a dry friction modifier (it creates a slippery surface), welding flux and many other applications.
As a 100 year old home remedy it was used for sterilising wounds (and is still used in hospital dressings), curing fungal problems and treating infected eyes.
If you have severe foot problems that have resulted in broken skin and subsequent infection, then another classic treatment which is endorsed by British medical authorities is the use of potassium permanganate foot soaks.
Potassium permanganate is also readily available online, and to make a foot soak you dissolve a tiny amount in a bucket of hot water (just enough to make it a light pink colour) and bathe your feet in it for a good length of time (while browsing the Internet or watching TV). That will rapidly bring infected feet under control.
Note that potassium permanganate will stain everything it touches. Be careful to only use a tiny amount (literally a few crystals in a foot soak), and take care to avoid spilling the resultant pink water on anything that you value. The chemical is a strong oxidiser and should be kept securely in its own container.