Make a Natural Foot Odor Remedy

Sage Foot odor is always unpleasant, no matter your age or gender. Here are some tried and true natural remedies for treating it.

Steps

Sprinkle your shoes with a powder that can absorb the moisture from sweating and help keep your feet cool. Good choices include cornflour, baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) or talcum powder.
Crumble sage leaves into your shoes to control the odor. This is an age-old remedy.
Mix 1/2 a cup of vinegar in warm water. Bathe your feet in this 3 - 4 times a week.
Mix lemon juice and warm water and bathe your feet 3 - 4 times a week.
Soak your feet in tea; 3 - 4 teabags boiled in a liter of water will suffice. Let it cool and bathe feet twice a day.
Soak your feet in bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) - one tbsp of bicarbonate of soda to one liter of water. Do this at least twice a week.

Tips

Keep a small plastic bag of baking soda in your bag for emergency powdering during the day - sprinkle in your shoes while sitting at your desk or during your lunch break for a quick freshener. This is especially great if you work out in gym shoes at lunch or before work.
Don't wear socks more than once and try to prefer natural rather than synthetic mixes unless the socks are specially odor-proofed.
Go bare-footed whenever possible. It is nature's best remedy.

Warnings

Be careful if you have circulation problems. Only soak feet in one temperature at a time (i.e., don't soak in hot and then cold or vice versa, as this could be very harmful). Keep at a nice lukewarm or cool soaking temperature.