If the heroes of Tolkien’s books went looking for some undies to go with their mithril armor, they may have sought something similar to a new product touted by Danish fashion company, Organic Basics.

The company has designed “silvered” cotton drawers that protect the groin and bum from being invaded by stinky microbes. The light-weight shields have such potent antimicrobial powers that they can fend of funk even after being worn in battle for a week straight, the designers say.

Silver has long been known to be antimicrobial. The metal sheds ions that pierce through bacterial walls and thrash cellular components, such as DNA and critical proteins. Clothing manufacturers are already adding silver nanoparticles to hospital gowns and athletic wear.

For protective underwear, Organic Basics added polyester fibers with a chemically bonded coating of silver into their organic cotton boxer briefs. The threads can kill off 99.9 percent of microbes brewing in your bottom, the company says.

In addition to the antimicrobial properties, the underwear can also help regulate body temperature because of silver’s thermal conductivity.

Organic Basics says that the underwear is “elegant. It’s comfortable. It’s odorless. It’s the future of underwear.” The company is raising funds for manufacturing the boxers, as well as T-shirts and socks, on Kickstarter.

However, while silver is effective at killing off foul microbes, it has no defense against the power of the fart. Noxious gases that erupt from the bowels, which contain volatile sulfur compounds, ammonia, and other stinky chemicals, are not blocked by the metal barriers. For such stench-fighting needs, one might turn to intimates that contain a layer of activated carbon to filter out offending odors.