This is interesting, and I suppose I could wipe the inside of the shoes with them:

Bleach
Bleach is far a more powerful anti-microbial agent than alcohol. Drug treatment clinics regularly advise addicts to immerse their syringes in a thinned down bleach solution. However, they are starting to move away from this because the bleach kits often don't kill Hepatitis, and sometimes don't even kill the relatively fragile AIDS virus.

Rubbing Alcohol
Rubbing alcohol will disinfect and to some extent sterilize. However, most of the microbes we worry about (things like Hepatitis) aren't going to be killed using rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol might be a marginally acceptable way to clean your own supplies, but if these supplies have been handled by or used on anyone else, alcohol isn't going to cut it. That means that if you use a pair of clamps to pierce a friend, that alcohol isn't going to get rid of their germs


Might work, but I think I will alas, abandon, this idea, unless I go back to wearing socks riding. I get such bad hot spots, I have gone without socks since I moved to AZ. Even the thinest sock didn't work, just plain barefoot.

Lisa