[exabrial]

I won't believe it until you try it on my belay partner's climbing shoes.

Their shoes should be banned under the Geneva convention.

[loa_in_]

I use bleach infused cleaning wipes and I stuff few of them inside each shoe for few nights. I take them out whenever I put on the shoes. On a negative note, it caused some cheaper insoles to literally fall apart overnight while doing this.

[exabrial]

Just curious, do you know the active ingredients on the wipes?

... I wear socks. There's a lot of things holding back my climbing, proper diet, weight training, sticking to a plan, etc... socks are not holding me back pahaha.

[loa_in_]

The ingredients are: Anionic active ingredients less than five percent, fragrance, hydrogen peroxide, sodium bicarbonate, acetic acid, preservative - methylchloroisothiazolinone.

I don't see at a glance how it's bleach infused as the packaging claims.

[hilux]

Is your belay partner airing out the shoes (ideally outdoors) between sessions, or storing them in a closed bag?

[exabrial]

The clip them with a carabiner to their climbing pack they bring to the gym. I think they air out...

[toomuchtodo]

Have you tried spraying them inside and out with 70% isopropyl alcohol?

[exabrial]

I don't think they do anything to them