Can certain soaps get rid of foot odor?  Will antibacterial soap
do the trick? Marili Forastieri/Lifesize/Thinkstock  Feeling
overworked and underappreciated? Think how your feet must feel.
Each one is an engineering marvel: 26 bones, 33 joints, and
literally hundreds of muscles, tendons, and ligaments, sharing a
load equal to a few hundred tons of pressure every day; if
you're an active person, even more [source: Illinois Podiatric
Medical Association].  And how do we repay them? We suffocate
them in socks and shoes, splash them in the shower, and then
start the whole process over again. Rarely do we show them the
love.  It's no wonder they raise a stink -- literally -- from
time to time. Feet also contain 250,000 sweat glands, more per
square inch than any other part of the body [source: ePodiatry].
Call it the foot's revenge. Or bromhidrosis (a Greek word
combining stink and sweat), as a podiatrist does.  By any name,
sweaty, stinky feet result from natural but inconvenient
biological functions. Like the r