Vibram Five Finger Stink

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Prevention is the Cure? Clean (or treated) Feet.

If you're putting balmy, sweat-soaked, or dirty feet into your Vibram Five Fingers, you could be setting yourself up for immediate failure (and an onset of VFF stink!). For this reason, many advocate the preventative measure of always starting out with freshly cleaned feet. As Derek / Zeitheld put it, "So maybe, the solution isn't washing our shoes, it's washing our feet."

Grunt - If I am going to put them on after a long day of wearing boots or normal shoes, I first swipe my feet with one of those pre-moistened antibacterial towelettes. I make sure to get in between the toes and around the nails and then let my feet dry for a couple of seconds. The process takes about a minute and seems to work well so far.

rutibegga - My favorite shoe/foot odor combat tool is tea tree oil. My partner has some WAY funky-smelling feet, so I purchased a bottle of the [tea tree oil] and had her wipe it on her feet before putting shoes on every day. No more funk.

Cleanthes - I've found something that seems to completely stop the smell in my VFFs: PediTech. This spray is supposed to kill the bacteria that cause smell, and it's really worked for me. You spray it on your feet, rather than in the shoes, and after an initial week of treating them every day, it only takes one spray a week to keep the effect. I've been using it for four days. It's getting hot here, and although my feet sweat, there's no smell at all now.

Though keeping your feet clean and bacteria-free in the first place should help stave off the onset of stink, for many it's still only a matter of time — and when that stink sets in ...
"Apply directly to your Vibram Five Fingers" — Treat and Defeat the VFF-stank!

Assuming your Vibram Five Fingers have gotten funky, it goes without saying that the first course of action is to simply wash your VFFs and if you know you have smell-prone feet, you might consider washing your Vibrams often.

That said, if you find your Vibram Five Fingers becoming smelly almost immediately after a wash, that's a sign you need to up the ante on your cleaning protocol — you may need to take additional measures. To that end, VFF fans members use a bevy of sprays, powders, and soaks to kill the stink and keep the funky smells at bay:

Bango Skank - [spray] Kiwi Fresh Force. This stuff is pretty much the awesome. I use it everyday before I put them on and every night after I take them off. It's basically an upside down aerosol can that you insert into the shoe and press down on and it will spray excellence far into your VFF's nether reaches. They sell it at Target and Walgreens.

balsam0 - [spray] This is what I do. Wash once a week and if they smell bad enough Febreze them when not in use. I typically do this before I go to sleep at night. It isn't 100% effective but it seems to keep the smell to a minimum.

ElGiganteJake - [spray] ZorbX is awesome. I spray them down and let them air dry once a week. Greatest invention ever.

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[RamTerritory]

I like how you totally ripped off the Pixar logo

[outtarange]

It wouldn't bother me to smell the feet of either one of you guys :P

[Hopffnung]

Both are cute :)

[neptuniumforest]

sexy dude

[theoryg]

I favorited this because the guy raised his leg and the second rear scene was worth it.

[Slave2Reason]

Worthless--quasi-gay or full gay non-info...

[jo9285]

@JuliRafMardieta you must have put them on and started right away your suppose to walk the first couple of weeks before you run. the bones in your feet actually reform overtime and that's what makes it easier to run barefoot. I weigh 240 pounds and when I run/jog in them I'm fine, with shoes i get back pains and my knees buckle when running but everyone different.

[bf6067]

This will sound sick but I actually like the smell of sweat at the gym and natural foor odor smells healthy to me as well. So I wouldn't mind it if I was smelling either of these guys' feet. But if the shoes are that bad, I don't know, I would have to experience them to see. But these guys seem so awesome, I don't even think smelly shoes would deter me from being around them!

[doreman1]

They're both hot. I'd like to smell both of their feet!

[40albus]

Gayest guys EVER... and yeah.. rip off Pixar some more... losers...

[JuliRafMardieta]

These shoes gave me shin splints. I was bamboozled into the barefoot running business and this is what kept me off the streets from running for over a year. Now I run in Asics, the best shoes ever!!!

[SeaRunner73]

I am now taking them off right after any gym workout instead of wearing them home. Wearing sandals.