Any question answered...

It might be that to use enough heat and strong enough detergent you would end up melting/ destroying the gloves.

boiling them will shrink them no? Just buy new ones.

Give them to a sloth to wear or a week. Sloth hairs are more attractive to mould than sealskinz gloves. The mould will migrate to the more favourable environment and you gloves will smell fresher than febreeze.

Hmm, the freezer you say? I'll give that a go. If really hot water destroys the gloves then I haven't really lost anything, if the smell doesn't go then they need replacing anyway.

And, possibly, wash more often?

Cheeky. I wash the gloves quite a lot and make sure I dry them out properly if they get wet etc.

And I wash myself relatively frequently too.

Febreeze is not washing.

It's been a VERY long time since I febreezed my hair. Honest.

I crashed into the back of a car on Friday evening (some dude entered a roundabout right in front of me when I was doing about 17mph and I couldn't scrub enough speed off to stop naturally due to anticipation fail).

Anyway it doesn't really hurt normally but when I bend down the front of my ribs are agonisingly painful and I figure I should probably get it checked out. I don't want to make a doctor's appt because the doctor will go "oh yers here you go here is a referral to some clinic blah blah" and it'll take years and I'll need to use up my precious holiday time twice. I don't want to go to A&E because that takes an age and ain't nobody got time for that. I have heard tell of mythical drop in centres in London that people have visited due to injuries, but don't recall any details of them. Do these places exist outside of my fevered imagination, and would they look at my ribs for me and tell me if I'm going to die? If so, where are they?

http://www.selondon.nhs.uk/your_local_nhs/lambeth/your_local_services/minor_injuries_unit

I have heard tell of mythical drop in centres in London that people have visited due to injuries, but don't recall any details of them.

Walk-in centres or minor injuries units. There's a list which should be up-to-date, here:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/services/health/misc/minorinjuries.aspx

Snap. South London is probably more useful for bothwell.

Ooh, good. I work quite close to Guy's. I will drop in and see them tomorrow morning, cheers both.

"How can I get my gloves to smell less disgusting? I'm pretty sure my hands don't smell THAT bad, yet these gloves are awful. I washed them yesterday and they still smell. I really don't want to have to throw them away as they weren't cheap and other than the smell they're great (sealskinz) but if I can't get the smell to go away then I don't have much choice."

"There is no way of removing the smell from gloves, only hiding it temporarily."

"Try washing them hotter and with a stronger detergent. I have had to throw kit away in the past that wouldntt stop smelling. I think there is a particularly deep rooted kind of mould that just stays."

"^^That's what I feared :("

"Put them in the freezer, that should kill any bacteria which are ponging, without FUBARing the gloves as (potentially) boil washing them would do.

And, possibly, wash more often?"

"It might be that to use enough heat and strong enough detergent you would end up melting/ destroying the gloves."

"Boiling them will shrink them no? Just buy new ones."

"Give them to a sloth to wear or a week. Sloth hairs are more attractive to mould than sealskinz gloves. The mould will migrate to the more favourable environment and you gloves will smell fresher than febreeze."

"Hmm, the freezer you say? I'll give that a go. If really hot water destroys the gloves then I haven't really lost anything, if the smell doesn't go then they need replacing anyway."

@hats: freezer works. denim geeks put precious jeans in the freezer instead of washing them, keeps them sociable. also, turn them inside out and sprinkle bicarb of soda and leave them for a while, don't know how but it magically sorts out some smells. maybe do that thing like when you make teddy bears, (I don't know why but I have just dredged this from my memory must be a couple of decades untouched) put the inside out gloves in a bag, chuck a load of bicarb in there, give it a shake every so often. you do it with a special kind of chalk when you make stuffed toys. I can't remember why. or has my brain invented this.

How can I get my gloves to smell less disgusting?

That's an anti-theft feature. Leave them be.

How can I get my gloves to smell less disgusting?

Don't use tynan's anti-theft paste?

Unless you want added warmth or the gel has perished

Dropper seatpost, very much in vogue with the STW sect

and Tenners, thanks.

hoefla - you kind of lost me at the teddy bears, but I think I know what you're talking about. Thanks :)

Put them in the freezer, that should kill any bacteria which are ponging, without FUBARing the gloves as (potentially) boil washing them would do.

Three species of bacteria, Carnobacterium pleistocenium, as well as Chryseobacterium greenlandensis and Herminiimonas glaciei, have reportedly been revived after surviving for thousands of years frozen in ice.

Should be fiiine...

Unless your gloves have leather bits, in which case I expect freezing would ruin them.

As long as Hats doesn't fill her gloves with nutrient Agar after freezing them I think she'll be ok.

And if she does go that route she might grow a new antarctic-orientated bacteria-monster, which would be cool.

Dry shampoo should sort it.

^^Maybe we should try it on some hats first ...

@hats: freezer works. denim geeks put precious jeans in the freezer instead of washing them, keeps them sociable. also, turn them inside out and sprinkle bicarb of soda and leave them for a while, don't know how but it magically sorts out some smells. maybe do that thing like when you make teddy bears

Generally would only put old teddy bears in the freezer, in order to kill off any nasty things like moth larvae. Even then, it's normally only done to the ones made with mohair.

I didn't write this btw ^. Somebody has quite obviously hacked into my account. BareNecessities has no knowledge whatsoever about teddy bears!

Bareniceteddies.