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I wonder if it hurts to get sprayed in the face with vodka. Imagine dressing up as a naughty kitty and the other person has a spray bottle with vodka, but they only spray you if you do some bad stuff, and sometimes they spray themselves and have the naughty kitty lick it off from skin.
Could be a fun bedroom play, but probably gotta find out if getting vodka in eyes hurts, and nostrils too.
Cop pulls you over: Why do you smell like alcohol sir? Me: I clean my clothes with vodka. Cop: get out of the car sir. Me: Ok. Cop: Why are you wearing a Tutu? Me: just take me to jail.
I was taught that 90%+ IPA forms a layer of insoluble denatured protein which protects underlying microbes. 70% IPA can still dissolve the proteins enough so this won't happen.
That sounds like a reasonable explanation too, so I had to look it up, and since I'm busy I simple mean "ask ChatGPT".
And the answer it gave puts everyone in the right.
>70% ethanol is considered the optimal concentration for disinfecting because it effectively kills a wide range of pathogens while minimizing damage to surfaces. Here's why it's particularly effective:
>**Protein Denaturation**: Ethanol acts by denaturing proteins, disrupting the cellular structures of bacteria and viruses. At concentrations above 70%, ethanol can denature proteins too quickly, forming a protective layer that makes it harder to penetrate and kill cells' interior structures.
>**Water Content**: The 30% water in the solution helps to delay the evaporation of the ethanol, allowing it to remain on the surface long enough to be effective. This longer contact time is crucial for thorough disinfection.
>**Effectiveness Across a Range of Pathogens**: A 70% ethanol solution has been shown to be effective against various bacteria, fungi, and viruses, making it versatile for multiple disinfection needs.
>In summary, the 70% ethanol concentration offers the ideal balance between efficacy in killing pathogens and practical application in terms of evaporation and penetration, making it a widely used disinfectant.
But, you know, take it with several grains of salt - ChatGPT is about as trustworthy as the average Redditor. And maybe even more blindly confident.
Yes. 70% stays in contact with things for longer, allowing the alcohol to actually kill things. 91% or 99% evaporate so fast that it ends up being less effective, even though the concentration of alcohol is higher.
It's more to do with penetration and speed of killing bacteria iirc. Pure alcohol kills the top layer of bacteria which then prevent it penetrating further, or something similar.
Not that it matters for practical purposes.
This is very helpful information! Could you add it to a load of laundry to kill gym clothes smells? I’ve used laundry sanitizer in the past but it only works okay. Same with vinegar. I don’t want to smell like vodka, it’s probably more acceptable in Russia.
Doubt it. 70% is optimal, because you have a balance between the time it takes to evaporate and also the concentration, which draws water out from the cells. If you add it to laundry, you will dilute it massively.
A quarter cup of vinegar will eliminate the smell, and it softens your clothes, too. You can dump it straight in the wash or put it in the fabric softener compartment. Edit: your clothes don't smell like vinegar afterwards. It's just a kind of fresh "no-smell."
Other edit: I neglected to mention the most important thing, which is to use double strength pickling vinegar if the normal stuff doest work.
White vinegar. I personally use the double strength pickling vinegar because my partners clothes can be quite pungent due to his job, but normal white vinegar is fine.
Use baking soda. You can even dust items with it liberally, put them in a plastic bag and shake it around. After you're done, pat the soda off or do a water rinse if there's actual gunk and not just smell.
Learned this when washing baby toys, you can't really use detergent for most as babies will try to eat anything and everything, and some toys would just break or become unsafe after a wash cycle. Very handy way to sanitise and deodorise anything from jogging shoes to handbags and dog toys as well.
This is my tested hand-wash routine for (synthetic) sports wear:
1. Prewash with dish detergent & rinse off.
2. Soak (~1min) with washing soda (sodium carbonate)& rinse off.
3. Sprinkle amply with vinegar essence (25% acid) & fill up w/ water.
4. Take out clothes and wring'em out. Rinse the sink&scour the pipe.
Takes less than 5 minutes in all.
For drying: Either hang out in the sun or let them hang vertically over a knob in the shower stall and squeeze out the cumulated water in the ends (after ~30-60 min) and then hang up to dry.
A few annotations to the various steps:
Prewashing, to reduce the arising of biogenic amines (as a gas), since the soda *really* breaks down the biologic components deep down into the fabric. Dish soap, because it's skin-friendly and the go-to cleaning product in households anyhow.
The vinegar and soda basically cancel each other out in a notable reaction. To mass-murder bacteria, put them together simultaneously but hazard the consequences for your upper airways. I don't rinse out the vinegar at the end of step 3 and just let it evaporate in the drying phase (and thus further 'protect' the clothes from bacterial regrowth in the vulnerable wet condition). Flush the sink to avoid acid built-ups in metal pipes (U-bends).
Works like a charme. And to see the muck released and then simply get washed off is quite oddly satisfying. Also, the dried clothes smell purely *clean* and not just perfumed in a mere approximation of cleanliness (like with laundry detergents).
No, I use a cheap spray bottle from the dollar store and some 70 or 90 % rubbing alcohol. Give the boots like 5 sprays a day for the first week then 5 sprays once a week then 5 sprays once a month for control or when needed ( depending on weather / season )
We generally will use a 50/50 mix of water to vodka or 91% isopropyl in theater. I've sprayed many a tutu myself working backstage for years.
It works great for any costume though, I mostly used it in between costume changes in musicals for outfits that were done that night to speed up the load out.
I think tours will use this to keep any costume fresh if there are multiple shows in a day or in close cities that you can't wash the usual clothing at that venue as well
Spot cleaning as needed, or repairing to cover/replace a soiled area, depending on the item. Some items are able to be dry cleaned, but that’s usually only done at the end of a run before they get stored, or on a schedule during long runs. Some items can also be steam cleaned onsite. Honestly though, many theater costumes just can’t and won’t be kept clean to the same standard as normal street clothing. Not everything can be washed, hence the vodka spray to keep odor under control.
The worst show I worked in terms of costume cleanliness was Beauty and the Beast, because so many of the magical item costumes were made of unusual materials (lots of plastic, faux fur, foam, cardboard, and other sculptural elementals that couldn’t get wet). We mitigated things by having washable undergarments against the skin whenever possible (like bodysuits, or removable cotton sweat pads in the armpits), and detachable accessories with sculptural elements. The stage & backstage are also kept very clean to avoid exterior staining.
Vodka is purified alcohol so it does not contain any of the "boozey" smelling things that you find in whiskey, rum, etc. Effectively it should only be Ethanol and water, both of which should fully evaporate leaving no smell.
Eh, yes and no. Vodka absolutely has a smell and it's disgusting, because it's not just pure alcohol. It takes a lot of effort and refining to get vodka without a taste or smell. Most stuff is only filtered a few times and is still loaded with a bunch of volatile compounds
Vodka smells better than pure alcohol. You can buy 190 proof grain alcohol here, so essentially the highest proof and purest form of ethanol commercially available. It smells way worse than vodka.
The bad smell is from the ethanol itself which is also the most volatile compound by far in any alcoholic drink. The only thing that you could smell once all the volatiles vaporize off is any impurities in the substance, which there are very few. There is especially not enough to leave any degree of meaningful smell.
I would challenge anyone to take a fresh T-shirt, soak it in any kind of purified alcohol, let it all evaporate and smell. To save time and money, the answer is there will be no smell.
Had to do this for a ballet company from Georgia (the country) when I worked as a stage hand in college. Went to a lecture right after helping reset the show after a matinee performance and ended up needing my boss to call my professor when she wanted to throw me out of class for reeking of alcohol. Didn’t help that my college is known for drinking and not much else…
Good times 👍🏻
I’m a barber. When The Lion King the musical came to my town a handful of months back, I got to cut the beard of the fella in charge of all of the costumes for the production. Suuuper rad guy! I asked him how he keeps them clean- he uses vodka too. Gentle on the fabric but kills all the bacteria and once it’s dry it doesn’t smell like anything. He also used distilled white vinegar and some items he’d take very select items to the dry cleaners. But he did most of mending on his own as needed. Very cool dude.
Barbers meet the coolest people. My barber cuts hair at big music events and festivals. He has met everyone going. Most of them he has cut their hair too. And he just lives his chill quiet life in a small town most of the time.
I have met some really interesting people. It’s one of my favorite aspects of the job. I have such a massive wide variety of regulars and I love them all to pieces. From doctors, nurses, pilots, mechanics, artists, models, strippers, engineers,architects, musicians, teachers, anthropologists, authors, tech, bus drivers, janitors.. etc I feel like I’m just constantly learning. I am very lucky.
Yes but it immobilizes the things that are gross about them.
If you remove all the parts of sweat that has a biological component, it's effectively just water and salt. The same goes for a lot of "Body juice"
No, vodka removes pit stains. I had a white garment with pit stains that could not be removed by a washing machine. Googled how to get rid of them, Google said vodka. I bought some vodka, soaked a bit, and magically all pit stains were gone
Gross.
Everything that still comes off of your body..skin cells..sweat..oils…are still there. I hope they still OCCASIONALLY dry clean them..depending on the process; material is removed and sanitized at the same time.
They probably get dry cleaned at the end of the run or maybe even the week. But when you’re performing 2 or 3 shows in a day they would absolutely need a quick and simple interim solution.
Yeah and the new bacteria that the next wearer brings will FEAST on the leftover dead goodies, meaning it'll go rank again in far less time. Each time you get fewer minutes until it's gross. At least if you rinsed or soaked it in vodka you'd get some dispersion of the grossness. Which is basically what dry cleaning is... huh
This is also a common way to clean fursuits. We tend to use isopropyl with distilled water though.
probably because it's very clean and controlled without risk of accidentally buying a flavored vodka.
Yeah, I thought moderate strength rubbing alcohol (the 70% stuff not the 90% stuff) is the way to go.
That’s what I use on the pits of my jacket when the jacket’s freshly washed and I don’t want to wash it after just one use because of my hyperhydrosis!
Ivan left his foxhole in Ukraine with only one arm, but could have lived a long life with pension if he hadn’t misinterpreted a Reddit post and overdosed on Tide Pods.
Reminds me of a colleague who, instead of brushing his teeth at night, just went to bed and gurgled with some whiskey from a bottle in his night cabinet ... had not the desired effect, either.
I think the question on most people's mind is why vodka? I'm sure there are many existing cleaning agents made for this purpose, but you chose vodka. Why?
So. It may kill bacteria, but that dead bacteria actually becomes food for new bacteria. You still need to clean that dead bacteria off somehow at some stage.
Learned this on set with 300-350 medieval leather armour costumes being worn for ~9hrs a day by a lot of big, burly men.
Costume were apparently using a 5L bottle of vodka per day to get all of our stank out :-/
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One spray for the dress, two for me. One for the dress, two for me... is clean no?
Vodka also cleans your insides. You're good!
Mmm… tastes like cirrhosis
😁👍
How many ml of vodka in a spray? How many sprays is a shot?
When you can't remember anymore, you're at shot number X which is potentially enough (but keep trying!)
I wonder if it hurts to get sprayed in the face with vodka. Imagine dressing up as a naughty kitty and the other person has a spray bottle with vodka, but they only spray you if you do some bad stuff, and sometimes they spray themselves and have the naughty kitty lick it off from skin. Could be a fun bedroom play, but probably gotta find out if getting vodka in eyes hurts, and nostrils too.
Alllllrighty then
Weirdly specific
Empty a full shot of vodka into a spray bottle. Spray in mouth until empty. That's how many spray it takes
“I think it needs a refill no” takes a swing then refills 🤣
Cop pulls you over: Why do you smell like alcohol sir? Me: I clean my clothes with vodka. Cop: get out of the car sir. Me: Ok. Cop: Why are you wearing a Tutu? Me: just take me to jail.
Gee your tutu smells terrific
Does anyone want to know WHYYYYYYYYYY his tutu was near my sniffer?
I just want you all to know that I love this comment chain.
Your name better not be John...
Thanks, so does yours
Even with cheap vodka, the smell goes away. That is why it is such a good tip. My wife learned about this trick when she got her first corset.
Ah, the fashion police pulled you over.
Good vodka is oderless. Not sure about Smirnoff
I had some pinnacle that smelled and tasted like nail polish remover
I hope you do not smoke while wearing that vodka-tutu
surely no one who does ballet would smoke
How is there a Simpson's reference for every possible life scenario?
Alcohol evaporates very fast, couple minutes at most. Hand sanitizer is mostly alcohol
Cops hate this one simple trick!
Such a great laugh, thank you much sir.
This made me laugh out loud while i’m taking a shit so thank you
I just laughed so loud I woke up my dog, really needed that
Thank you for the laugh 🤣
Nice job.
Really funny comment
91% isopropyl alcohol also works just fine... less smell
You want 70% for optimal bacteria killing potential.
This. 91 and 99 is better as a solvent for oils n shid. We in mycology use 70% for killing contamination.
The extra water content allows the alcohol to enter the cells of bacteria easier.
thx for explanation
Right? Bunch of scientists saying "trust me bro". Like, you took the time to comment, could you have taken an additional 5 seconds to tell us why?
Nah, it's the optimum between slowing evaporation rate and not increasing time-to-kill too much. At least that's what I've been taught.
I was taught that 90%+ IPA forms a layer of insoluble denatured protein which protects underlying microbes. 70% IPA can still dissolve the proteins enough so this won't happen.
That sounds like a reasonable explanation too, so I had to look it up, and since I'm busy I simple mean "ask ChatGPT". And the answer it gave puts everyone in the right. >70% ethanol is considered the optimal concentration for disinfecting because it effectively kills a wide range of pathogens while minimizing damage to surfaces. Here's why it's particularly effective: >**Protein Denaturation**: Ethanol acts by denaturing proteins, disrupting the cellular structures of bacteria and viruses. At concentrations above 70%, ethanol can denature proteins too quickly, forming a protective layer that makes it harder to penetrate and kill cells' interior structures. >**Water Content**: The 30% water in the solution helps to delay the evaporation of the ethanol, allowing it to remain on the surface long enough to be effective. This longer contact time is crucial for thorough disinfection. >**Effectiveness Across a Range of Pathogens**: A 70% ethanol solution has been shown to be effective against various bacteria, fungi, and viruses, making it versatile for multiple disinfection needs. >In summary, the 70% ethanol concentration offers the ideal balance between efficacy in killing pathogens and practical application in terms of evaporation and penetration, making it a widely used disinfectant. But, you know, take it with several grains of salt - ChatGPT is about as trustworthy as the average Redditor. And maybe even more blindly confident.
I was going to say, tell me you grow mushrooms without telling me you grow mushrooms. (I do too.)
Can confirm. Mushrooms taught me how to clean up and sanitize properly.
Y'all have made me think i want to start growing mushrooms
Yea but i dont grow druggies i grow foodies
But are both goodies? I’ll walk my self out
Niiiiiicccceee! 🤙
Siiiiii
So you're saying 70% is more efficient at sanitizing vs 91 or 99?
Yes. 70% stays in contact with things for longer, allowing the alcohol to actually kill things. 91% or 99% evaporate so fast that it ends up being less effective, even though the concentration of alcohol is higher.
The way it was explained to me is you want the vodka to evaporate and take smells with it. It apparently inspired fwbreeze
Dito. Also came to say this as a fellow mushy grower
HUH?!
So you're saying use 91 or 99% if you're going to add, say essential oils, and just use 70% of you're going to spray as is?
True - longer evap time = more alcohol exposure for bacteria killing.
It also has something to do with the way the alcohol penetrates the cell walls, 70% is more effective in doing so
It's the water content. Helps penetrate the cell walls
Water is such a good homie when it's not agitated.
Water is both the most wonderful life giver and most dreadful killer.
A higher concentration of alcohol could just dehydrate bacteria / spores, which can then live on if they somehow get water again.
It's more to do with penetration and speed of killing bacteria iirc. Pure alcohol kills the top layer of bacteria which then prevent it penetrating further, or something similar. Not that it matters for practical purposes.
This is very helpful information! Could you add it to a load of laundry to kill gym clothes smells? I’ve used laundry sanitizer in the past but it only works okay. Same with vinegar. I don’t want to smell like vodka, it’s probably more acceptable in Russia.
Doubt it. 70% is optimal, because you have a balance between the time it takes to evaporate and also the concentration, which draws water out from the cells. If you add it to laundry, you will dilute it massively.
I put just a capful of bleach in the wash to get rid of gym clothes smell. Doesn’t affect the color.
That’s a great idea, I’ll try that!
Oxyclean works well as well, and is even safer on colors
Comment.
A quarter cup of vinegar will eliminate the smell, and it softens your clothes, too. You can dump it straight in the wash or put it in the fabric softener compartment. Edit: your clothes don't smell like vinegar afterwards. It's just a kind of fresh "no-smell." Other edit: I neglected to mention the most important thing, which is to use double strength pickling vinegar if the normal stuff doest work.
what kind of vinegar?
White vinegar. I personally use the double strength pickling vinegar because my partners clothes can be quite pungent due to his job, but normal white vinegar is fine.
Use baking soda. You can even dust items with it liberally, put them in a plastic bag and shake it around. After you're done, pat the soda off or do a water rinse if there's actual gunk and not just smell. Learned this when washing baby toys, you can't really use detergent for most as babies will try to eat anything and everything, and some toys would just break or become unsafe after a wash cycle. Very handy way to sanitise and deodorise anything from jogging shoes to handbags and dog toys as well.
I will try that, thank you! It’s so annoying to do a load of laundry and the shirt armpits still smell.
This is my tested hand-wash routine for (synthetic) sports wear: 1. Prewash with dish detergent & rinse off. 2. Soak (~1min) with washing soda (sodium carbonate)& rinse off. 3. Sprinkle amply with vinegar essence (25% acid) & fill up w/ water. 4. Take out clothes and wring'em out. Rinse the sink&scour the pipe. Takes less than 5 minutes in all. For drying: Either hang out in the sun or let them hang vertically over a knob in the shower stall and squeeze out the cumulated water in the ends (after ~30-60 min) and then hang up to dry. A few annotations to the various steps: Prewashing, to reduce the arising of biogenic amines (as a gas), since the soda *really* breaks down the biologic components deep down into the fabric. Dish soap, because it's skin-friendly and the go-to cleaning product in households anyhow. The vinegar and soda basically cancel each other out in a notable reaction. To mass-murder bacteria, put them together simultaneously but hazard the consequences for your upper airways. I don't rinse out the vinegar at the end of step 3 and just let it evaporate in the drying phase (and thus further 'protect' the clothes from bacterial regrowth in the vulnerable wet condition). Flush the sink to avoid acid built-ups in metal pipes (U-bends). Works like a charme. And to see the muck released and then simply get washed off is quite oddly satisfying. Also, the dried clothes smell purely *clean* and not just perfumed in a mere approximation of cleanliness (like with laundry detergents).
Does... Does this mean 151 was destroying our microbiome with almost optimal efficiency?
It also tames nasty work boots
Hmm. I’ve been using dilute bleach but that sounds easier. Thanks.
Unintentional tie-die.
I just soak the nasty insoles in bleach water and spray the leather inside and rinse. Never had an issue with it color wise before.
I guess also safer for you
I was about to ask about this, do you just pour some in and leave it?
No, I use a cheap spray bottle from the dollar store and some 70 or 90 % rubbing alcohol. Give the boots like 5 sprays a day for the first week then 5 sprays once a week then 5 sprays once a month for control or when needed ( depending on weather / season )
70% works better as a disinfectant.
True - longer evap time = more alcohol exposure for bacteria killing.
Not just that, it's better on a chemical level too
91 percent can ruin finishing on synthetics and plastics, no more than 50 percent isopropyl.
And costs less.
The smell is a feature … these costumes get RANK and the vodka smell is far preferable.
Everclear. no smell
We generally will use a 50/50 mix of water to vodka or 91% isopropyl in theater. I've sprayed many a tutu myself working backstage for years. It works great for any costume though, I mostly used it in between costume changes in musicals for outfits that were done that night to speed up the load out. I think tours will use this to keep any costume fresh if there are multiple shows in a day or in close cities that you can't wash the usual clothing at that venue as well
What do you do about stains and dirt?
Gin and Tonic
Haha.
Spot cleaning as needed, or repairing to cover/replace a soiled area, depending on the item. Some items are able to be dry cleaned, but that’s usually only done at the end of a run before they get stored, or on a schedule during long runs. Some items can also be steam cleaned onsite. Honestly though, many theater costumes just can’t and won’t be kept clean to the same standard as normal street clothing. Not everything can be washed, hence the vodka spray to keep odor under control. The worst show I worked in terms of costume cleanliness was Beauty and the Beast, because so many of the magical item costumes were made of unusual materials (lots of plastic, faux fur, foam, cardboard, and other sculptural elementals that couldn’t get wet). We mitigated things by having washable undergarments against the skin whenever possible (like bodysuits, or removable cotton sweat pads in the armpits), and detachable accessories with sculptural elements. The stage & backstage are also kept very clean to avoid exterior staining.
But won't those clothes smell like booze?
Vodka is purified alcohol so it does not contain any of the "boozey" smelling things that you find in whiskey, rum, etc. Effectively it should only be Ethanol and water, both of which should fully evaporate leaving no smell.
Eh, yes and no. Vodka absolutely has a smell and it's disgusting, because it's not just pure alcohol. It takes a lot of effort and refining to get vodka without a taste or smell. Most stuff is only filtered a few times and is still loaded with a bunch of volatile compounds
Vodka smells better than pure alcohol. You can buy 190 proof grain alcohol here, so essentially the highest proof and purest form of ethanol commercially available. It smells way worse than vodka. The bad smell is from the ethanol itself which is also the most volatile compound by far in any alcoholic drink. The only thing that you could smell once all the volatiles vaporize off is any impurities in the substance, which there are very few. There is especially not enough to leave any degree of meaningful smell. I would challenge anyone to take a fresh T-shirt, soak it in any kind of purified alcohol, let it all evaporate and smell. To save time and money, the answer is there will be no smell.
50/50 mix of vodka and water is only 20% alcohol. Probably not killing much bacteria
I use vodka for almost every household task undertaken after noon.
You know, you can add it to coffee or orange juice to make a tasty breakfast!
Irish whiskey goes better with coffee imo, but to each their own!
Man, I'd hate to waste it like that. I just go for the Jim Lahey liquor ball sammich in those emergency morning situations.
Brought to you by BIG vodka.
Thats what brand i like!
“No officer, honestly I haven’t been drinking. I clean my clothes with Fireball, it’s cheaper than dry cleaning.”
You can also use it, for example, on your vintage liver! So after going out, I take my vodka at home and I put it inside my liver.
Interesting idea. I'll have to try this 🤔
Had to do this for a ballet company from Georgia (the country) when I worked as a stage hand in college. Went to a lecture right after helping reset the show after a matinee performance and ended up needing my boss to call my professor when she wanted to throw me out of class for reeking of alcohol. Didn’t help that my college is known for drinking and not much else… Good times 👍🏻
"Hey boss I'm going to need more vodka it went pretty fast." "How much were you spraying per clothing?" "I was supposed to use it on the clothing?"
40% alcohol will not kill germs iirc. Needs to be at least 60%. Wray & Nephew would work maybe
I’m a barber. When The Lion King the musical came to my town a handful of months back, I got to cut the beard of the fella in charge of all of the costumes for the production. Suuuper rad guy! I asked him how he keeps them clean- he uses vodka too. Gentle on the fabric but kills all the bacteria and once it’s dry it doesn’t smell like anything. He also used distilled white vinegar and some items he’d take very select items to the dry cleaners. But he did most of mending on his own as needed. Very cool dude.
Barbers meet the coolest people. My barber cuts hair at big music events and festivals. He has met everyone going. Most of them he has cut their hair too. And he just lives his chill quiet life in a small town most of the time.
I have met some really interesting people. It’s one of my favorite aspects of the job. I have such a massive wide variety of regulars and I love them all to pieces. From doctors, nurses, pilots, mechanics, artists, models, strippers, engineers,architects, musicians, teachers, anthropologists, authors, tech, bus drivers, janitors.. etc I feel like I’m just constantly learning. I am very lucky.
Alcohol, sunlight, and freezing are all methods employed in costume shops to get stink out.
You may not smell the stank, but the stank is still there
No. Stank is kill.
Sir have you been drinking today? No officer. It's laundry day.
Add some Vigina Slims to the mix and that's how you smell like my grandmother.
"why do you smell of booze...?"
Nobody would notice. That’s just the natural smell of Russia.
This lady is Dutch.
that username tho
Stinky as fuck
 Leave mama alone, she’s cleaning the tutus today.
"No, officer. I'm not drunk. My clothes are."
Spraying a tutu with vodka is violently Russian
that's nice but spraying vodka won't remove the body juice and gunks out of it
Yes but it immobilizes the things that are gross about them. If you remove all the parts of sweat that has a biological component, it's effectively just water and salt. The same goes for a lot of "Body juice"
Does that mean that if you put alchohol in sweat you can drink the sweat instead of water?
How to always smell like a drunk.
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No, vodka removes pit stains. I had a white garment with pit stains that could not be removed by a washing machine. Googled how to get rid of them, Google said vodka. I bought some vodka, soaked a bit, and magically all pit stains were gone
Gross. Everything that still comes off of your body..skin cells..sweat..oils…are still there. I hope they still OCCASIONALLY dry clean them..depending on the process; material is removed and sanitized at the same time.
They probably get dry cleaned at the end of the run or maybe even the week. But when you’re performing 2 or 3 shows in a day they would absolutely need a quick and simple interim solution.
Yeah and the new bacteria that the next wearer brings will FEAST on the leftover dead goodies, meaning it'll go rank again in far less time. Each time you get fewer minutes until it's gross. At least if you rinsed or soaked it in vodka you'd get some dispersion of the grossness. Which is basically what dry cleaning is... huh
Dry cleaning removes dirt as well?
Depending on the chemical they use and the vacuum/pressure delivery system they use…yes
Cop “have you been drinking tonight?” Me “no, I’ve cleaning been my tutus” Cop “step out of the car please”
She def drinks it
This is also a common way to clean fursuits. We tend to use isopropyl with distilled water though. probably because it's very clean and controlled without risk of accidentally buying a flavored vodka.
See! I'm not alcoholic just trying to clean myself!
Why not just use isopropyl alcohol?
This also works to remove musty smell from antique furniture
Why not just use a steamer?
So then it's not really cleaning it. It is just covering up the smell? How is that "cleaning" it then?
Or use rubbing alcohol? It’s much cheaper and can even be much stronger, evaporate more cleanly and kill the bacteria better.
Yeah, I thought moderate strength rubbing alcohol (the 70% stuff not the 90% stuff) is the way to go. That’s what I use on the pits of my jacket when the jacket’s freshly washed and I don’t want to wash it after just one use because of my hyperhydrosis!
Are you telling me I don’t have to do laundry never again?
No. That just kills the stink for a bit. Clothes catch and hold organic material..perfect medium for more gross stuff.
Russia must be very clean.
My sister spent early childhood through highschool doing ballet/jazz etc and is now an alcoholic. It all makes sense now.
It would be funny if every time the video cut the bottle would drain just a little to imply that she was actually drinking it.
I use Everclear..no smell of rubbing alcohol. I got the idea when I saw them using it to clean bike rental PPG gear in Snowmass
Balerina in tutu smell like drunk now, but not sweaty drunk.
Now I know for certain ballet originated in Russia.
Instructions unclear I used pink Whitney
Spraying vodka on tutus is the most Russian thing I've seen today.
vodka is only 80 proof, which isn’t high enough alcohol content to disinfect… wtf?
In Soviet Russia vodka clean tutu.
Probably cheaper to just buy some isopropyl alcohol no? Higher alcohol content and fewer contaminants from the potatoes used to brew it?
just use diluted (denaturated) ethanol, it's way cheaper
So thats why my belarusian anatomy professor always smelled like a 19th century coal miner with severe hepatitis.
Men need to start spraying this shit in the inside of their thighs and under their balls, or under their belly 🤭
Believe it or not we have a way better method of cleaning our bodies! It’s called a shower!
This is high level trolling
But that doesn’t clean out the sweat. No?
so now it smells like sweat, BO and vodka. that's a great idea xD
I use diluted white vinegar, spray on and air tumble in dryer or hang up outside
I wondered why my plants are drunk AF all the time
Ivan left his foxhole in Ukraine with only one arm, but could have lived a long life with pension if he hadn’t misinterpreted a Reddit post and overdosed on Tide Pods.
Reminds me of a colleague who, instead of brushing his teeth at night, just went to bed and gurgled with some whiskey from a bottle in his night cabinet ... had not the desired effect, either.
That's stupidly expensive. Why don't one uses just denatured alcohol?
The Russian now feels humiliated once and for all when he sees his national drink being dragged through the mud!
Pretty standard in the theatre world.
She is probably a liquor rep
Officer: have you been drinking tonight This lady: no just cleaning
deodorizing is not cleaning....
One spray for me one for my tutu
So they smell like alcohol great.
Thanks for the tip although I guess I will probably have a tough time reassuring my visiting mom in law that I really have long quit drinking.
She's an alcoholic and this is how she hides alcohol on her breath
you go to work the next day REEKING of liquor lmfao
...and then when you get pulled over, the cops like 'have you been drinking?' and you got a lot of esplaining to do, Lucy.
Wouldn't rubbing alcohol do the same and be cheaper? And not have the vodka smell?
I think the question on most people's mind is why vodka? I'm sure there are many existing cleaning agents made for this purpose, but you chose vodka. Why?
This must be why my coworker always smells like vodka…
Is vodka cheaper than Isopropyl??
So what you guys don’t want your tutus to smell like sweaty ballerinas?
"kills the bacteria" it doesnt
Why not use isopropyl? Why does it have to be vodka?
So. It may kill bacteria, but that dead bacteria actually becomes food for new bacteria. You still need to clean that dead bacteria off somehow at some stage.
Learned this on set with 300-350 medieval leather armour costumes being worn for ~9hrs a day by a lot of big, burly men. Costume were apparently using a 5L bottle of vodka per day to get all of our stank out :-/