My gym shoes smell so bad

sport suds detergent works pretty well.

You can also try mixing some baking soda and vinegar together, and washing your shoes with that. After it dries out, it takes away a lot of smells.

Good luck.

Kitty litter? Seriously, I've heard this absorbs odor and moisture. I also heard once to try inserting newspaper to absorb moisture, but less sure about the efficacy of this one.

My podiatrist said to spray gym shoes out with one of those anti-fungal foot sprays from the pharmacy. She also said to NEVER wear the same shoes 2 days in a row, b/c it doesn't give them time to dry out.

Sport suds detergent really does work

anti fungal spray soon as you take them off each and every day and you will not have a problem.

Fe-breeze-

I wash my boys shoes with bleach. It will ruin your shoes eventually, but they usually grow out of them right about the same time.

My kids soccer cleats could have been sold to the military as biological weapons until we picked up a UV-C sanitizing wand - it actually kills the odour causing bacteria rather than just masking the stench.

I spray the anti-fungal stuff in my shoes...keeps them smelling nice, and I don't have to worry so much about accidentally picking something gross up at the gym since I slip my shoes off when I change.

Any type of what runners refer to as "tech gear", which is shorts, shirts, socks, shoes, pads, or anything else that is made from material designed to wick away sweat / dry quickly has to be washed in special detergents and without any type of fabric softener. The reason for this is because if you wash them in regular detergent or use fabric softener it actually clogs the pores in the fabric which draw the sweat away from your body. When this happens the sweat that the shirt / shorts / shoes or whatever collected never actually leaves the gear and instead gets trapped inside of it. You are actually making it smell worse every time you wash it. That's why it can smell fine straight out of the wash, but if you put it on a few hours later it already smells like you've worked out in it for a week without washing it. You're just adding more funk to it with every wear / wash cycle. I've never used Sports Suds, but I use a product called No Sweat, which is pretty much the same thing. You just wash all of your workout stuff together in that and hang it to dry and you'll be amazed at the difference. Febreeze, like regular laundry soap, only clogs it up. It masks the smell for a few hours but only makes the problem worse over time.

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