If your child has excessively smelly feet, ... Helping your child change their socks and shoes every day as well as cleaning them can do wonders for their foot smell. Wear clean and dry socks.

OX SOX, an odorless sock company created by University of Georgia student Matthew Tesvich, won the SEC Student Pitch Competition in Athens in October, beating pitches from 14 SEC schools.

When the sweat becomes trapped in your shoes or socks, it can create a bad odor. This is known as bromodosis, or smelly feet. ‌ Bacteria are also responsible for smelly feet.

If you’re someone who doesn’t like wearing socks with their shoes or flats, don’t worry, we get it. Sometimes you just want extra wiggle room and less sweat. But if you’re going to go that sockless ...

The researchers swabbed stinky socks worn by people between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. and found that half of them contained pseudomonas aeruginosa — a type of bacteria that causes infections in humans.

The socks are infused with three metals -- silver, copper, and zinc -- which allegedly kill the bacteria in your sweat that cause the "stinky feet" smell you know and love.

sock burners at the Annapolis Maritime Museum in 2006 rating how smelly the socks are as they being tossed into the fire. (Mary Ostrye/Courtesy photo) Show Caption. 1 of 30.