DIY Shoe Powder!
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Do you have smelly shoes?
Watch this video to learn how to make your own foot powder with a few simple ingredients!
With the summer on its way, we are bound to be wearing shoes without (or with) socks (y’know, flats, TOMS, sandals, heels, trainers, Keds ad infinitum).
Cleaning expert, Melissa Maker, shows us how to this in a few quick steps (no pun intended).
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Find a zippered plastic bag or a container with a good seal. Label that container – otherwise people will start to wonder what all that white powder is!
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Add 1/2 cup corn starch, 1/4 cup baking soda and 1/4 cup baking powder.
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If you would like to, add 5 drops of your favourite essential oil (thyme, lavender etc. offer great scents as well as odour-fighting properties).
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Shake all contents together and voila, you now have a homemade foot powder.
To use it, sprinkle a pinch in each shoe and tap the shoe at the heel and then at the toe to effectively distribute the powder. Do this in the morning before you leave the house and use it any time you feel your feet getting sweaty (read: smelly).
Hope you found this helpful!
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I love this post & your site! Found you through Pinterest and now I am hooked. Just watched a video on all the ‘cleaning’ toxins in the home and didn’t think about foot powder for my hubby. I am excited to subscribe and learn all sorts of good tips on here. Have you done one on how to clean shower glass doors naturally? I know lemon is supposed to work but I’m stuck. Thanks for the info!
Aww, thank you! Shower glass doors…ah yes, what fun. Lemon won’t do much. You need to use a product that can remove the soap scum and then you need to squeegee the glass after each shower and/or spray a daily shower spray on the glass. That will prevent hard water stains and soap scum from building up again. Squeegees sound like a pain but a few seconds of that vs. scrubbing soap scum once every few weeks? Sounds like a good trade off to me. I am going to be talking about a natural product that I like in the coming weeks called Mother’s Choice pertaining to this cleaning task. Stay tuned!
The daily shower spray that you can try (pardon the smell) is 50/50 vinegar and water. Yes it’s smelly, but it works and the smell goes away. It’s cheap, natural and very effective!
M
Ah, the infamous shower. A few years ago I tried an experiment with some ‘top’ shower cleaning products that vowed to do so much I’m surprised “make you a cup of coffee” wasn’t listed on the bottles.
I also used a few homemade alternatives. Now keep in mind this shower (NOT one that I used!) was so bad, there was more gross looking stuff on the bottom of the shower than on the glass/sides of shower! I swear it was close to being a sentient life form.
Some products I used burned my lungs badly but in the end after many hours & many days, that shower was almost as good as new. Some of the natural things I used ended up working better than almost every commercial product but I would have tossed mustard gas in there if I thought it would fix the problem (kidding..I think)
I’ll see if I can find what worked for me & am anxiously awaiting your review on Mother’s Choice as in our current home, my husband’s shower stall is starting to resemble his old one.
Karen