Shoes Blog
With our climate variability winter footwear should be not only warm but also waterproof. In order to make it so are plenty of foreign funds - often they are not less than the very shoes. So do not be superfluous to recall the old recipes that rescued our ancestors in any weather.
The simplest way to make the skin waterproof - impregnate her fat: will both plant and animal. Apply various mineral oils are not recommended - they dry the skin.
Increase to the fat melted wax lubricant will last longer, but the wax makes the skin not only water but also air-tightness, which prevents leather shoes main advantages over synthetics and often leads to colds, because leg in hot pink shoes quickly dampen (this must be taken into account and for the use of factory-cream).
The simplest way, which is still used by hunters for lubrication boots - is castor oil. It would be good to test it before using litmus test - response should be alkaline, and have long shelf oil it is usually acidic, which is extremely harmful to the skin.
Behold the insole
Winter boots should have a warm-factory insole liner. Please remove it and see that under it, whether coarse folds, protruding nails. To do this, how to palpate the inner surface. The presence of arch support can only please, and no covered bottom of a rigid polymer - cheerleaders.
To absorb excess moisture while walking there disposable insoles like feminine sanitary pads - sorbing water, but the feminine pads for these purposes do not advise. To improve the thermal insulation properties of footwear manufacture insulating soles of modern materials, will not be ashamed to cut them out of worn-out boots, but it is certainly a matter of taste.
SUPERTEPLYE SOCKS
Right socks - an excellent means of additional warming. There does not hurt to apply to the experience of winter fishing. They did not hesitate to pull on some socks and feet are right. However, the process of investment feet, has a strict order: first dress wool socks (preferably home-knitted), then - cotton, and, finally, nylon. Wool retains heat and prickly wool fibers act as mikromassazhera and stimulate blood circulation, cotton harvested evaporating moisture from the foot and create an additional layer of air, nylon socks socks protect against abrasion and prevent them from failing when walking.
Foreign firms produce socks for climbers and travelers - they combine all the advantages, the above socks, and have a complex structure - in places exposed to stress when walking, knitting thicker to cushion the foot and lifting the bivouac and the rest they need to be turned inside out, so they are better than warm. Their price is pricey (about $ 20), but they are worn for at least 5 years, and they can be washed in a conventional automatic machines.
Socks with gorteksom touted as the secret weapon of the green berets, but these socks are good when the shoe gets wet or there is a risk to scoop water from the top of shoes, in both cases, the foot remains dry. A good thing, but again, my dear.
The simplest way to make the skin waterproof - impregnate her fat: will both plant and animal. Apply various mineral oils are not recommended - they dry the skin.
Increase to the fat melted wax lubricant will last longer, but the wax makes the skin not only water but also air-tightness, which prevents leather shoes main advantages over synthetics and often leads to colds, because leg in hot pink shoes quickly dampen (this must be taken into account and for the use of factory-cream).
The simplest way, which is still used by hunters for lubrication boots - is castor oil. It would be good to test it before using litmus test - response should be alkaline, and have long shelf oil it is usually acidic, which is extremely harmful to the skin.
Behold the insole
Winter boots should have a warm-factory insole liner. Please remove it and see that under it, whether coarse folds, protruding nails. To do this, how to palpate the inner surface. The presence of arch support can only please, and no covered bottom of a rigid polymer - cheerleaders.
To absorb excess moisture while walking there disposable insoles like feminine sanitary pads - sorbing water, but the feminine pads for these purposes do not advise. To improve the thermal insulation properties of footwear manufacture insulating soles of modern materials, will not be ashamed to cut them out of worn-out boots, but it is certainly a matter of taste.
SUPERTEPLYE SOCKS
Right socks - an excellent means of additional warming. There does not hurt to apply to the experience of winter fishing. They did not hesitate to pull on some socks and feet are right. However, the process of investment feet, has a strict order: first dress wool socks (preferably home-knitted), then - cotton, and, finally, nylon. Wool retains heat and prickly wool fibers act as mikromassazhera and stimulate blood circulation, cotton harvested evaporating moisture from the foot and create an additional layer of air, nylon socks socks protect against abrasion and prevent them from failing when walking.
Foreign firms produce socks for climbers and travelers - they combine all the advantages, the above socks, and have a complex structure - in places exposed to stress when walking, knitting thicker to cushion the foot and lifting the bivouac and the rest they need to be turned inside out, so they are better than warm. Their price is pricey (about $ 20), but they are worn for at least 5 years, and they can be washed in a conventional automatic machines.
Socks with gorteksom touted as the secret weapon of the green berets, but these socks are good when the shoe gets wet or there is a risk to scoop water from the top of shoes, in both cases, the foot remains dry. A good thing, but again, my dear.