Helpful Hint Of The Week (2)
There’s a whole industry out there making a fortune out of peddling stuff that is supposed to eliminate or at least reduce the impact of odours emanating from the human body. Some seem to be more effective than others but often there are simpler remedies that work just as well.
Take stinky trainers.
The heady cocktail produced by the mix of sweat and bacteria has been enough to cause me to eschew this particular form of footwear. Apparently, however, a simple way of reducing their whiff factor is to place two or three tea bags, pristine not used, and place them in each shoe. Leave for twenty four hours and the absorbent nature of the bags take in the moisture and smell from the shoe. If you are lucky, they may even have transferred their particular flavour to your footwear.
As we are encouraged to recycle these days, after taking the teabags out of your trainers, you could use them to make a satisfying cuppa. It may even taste better than lapsang souchong, you never know.
