The footwear stored in the crude room gets unpleasant smell of mold. It is not recommended to carry such thing as mold fungi do harm to skin of legs. If it grieves you to throw out shoes or boots, try to get rid of mold.
It is required to you
- - cleaning agents;
- - ammonia solution;
- - vodka;
- - acetic acid;
- - salt;
- - boric acid;
- - shoe cream;
- - deodorant.
Instruction
1. Well wash out footwear in warm water with cleaning agent, add a little chlorine to make also disinfection. Pay special attention to internal part of footwear. If shoes are made of low-quality material, then it is better not to subject them to long contact with water.
2. Mix ammonia solution with vodka. After full drying of footwear carefully wipe it with the prepared solution on both sides. Again put on drying for several days.
3. Process footwear weak solution of acetic acid if sal ammoniac and vodka has not appeared in your house. Do not use undiluted acetic essence – you not only damage footwear, but also get the most severe burns of skin.
4. Fill table salt in shoes and leave for 2-3 days if the previous procedures could not win against mold smell. Salt not only will disinfect footwear, but also will absorb unpleasant smell. Stronger means – boric acid. But it is not absolutely safe to use it, you can spoil thing.
5. Expose footwear on balcony if at present on the street subzero temperature keeps. It will help to get rid of mold smell finally. In principle, sunshine also have disinfecting properties. So if you have found mouldy footwear in the summer, then do not despair. Put it on the street for several days.
6. Process shoes cream to return them gloss and color. On sale it is possible to meet also special absorbers of smells for footwear. If it seems to you that the light unpleasant aroma after all remained, then look for such means in shops of your city. Instead of special means also spray will be suitable for legs. Process footwear from within and wait until it dries up.