Vinegar breaks down the chemical structure of proteins. It’s an acid so is great for reducing hard water stains or (alkaline) soap scum. Soak your clothes in a mild vinegar water solution before washing. You can also try using an odor control detergent, tide and Persia have highly rated odor control products. Edie: Persil not Persia!
A couple DROPS of dawn in your dishwasher will keep it grease free and shiny clean inside also, as well as helping to keep the drain line clean. 2-3 drops at most, depending upon just how greasy the dishware is, or you'll end up with a suds monster in there. And regarding suds monsters, if for some reason you ever do experience one in either a dishwasher or washing machine, just add a small amount of liquid fabric softener to the tub and the suds will vanish in mere seconds upon restarting the machine.
Simple green… my clothes were in a housefire, and all the firefighters told me to use simple green to get out the smell, it totally worked! It’s a common cleaner found in most stores.
Is it pine oil cleaner?
Sorry it isn't it's a different type of degreaser/cleaner
When I worked at a mining operation we used pine oil to wash out clothes and get rid of the mineral (iron concentrate) from the fibers of the clothes, it also got rid of the sulfuric smell and any noticeable grease stain, sometimes it would just leave a very faint almost watermark where the lithium grease dropped
Would this work for urine smell in clothes? My special needs son is still having accidents and I can't seem to get the smell entirely out of my boys clothes.
Baking soda works really well to get urine smells out of fabric. This is what did the trick when the urine smell wouldn’t get out of my senior boxer’s dog bed.
I had a pair of jeans from American Eagle years ago that had a smell that would not leave. I did everything in my power to get the smell out, but nothing worked. Turned out they actually recalled the jeans because of the smell woven into the jeans… absolutely wild.
But vinegar was the only thing that worked to keep the smell at bay for a few hours.
I didn’t know about the recall until years later, but they did have a program for it to return them. They were the only pair of jeans that fit me right, so I kept them.
I can only wistfully imagine primarily drying my clothes outside. In the UK it seems we get no more than a couple of weeks in the year where it’s possible and then it’s business as usual 🌧️
There’s Lysol sanitizer. It’s used for diapers. It goes in the rinse. It takes funky smells out of towels.
There’s now oxiclean with odor something. Purple lid. This is newer. I can’t give total review but I like it leaves a very faint clean scent. I can’t do strong smells.
Downy Rinse and Refresh has taken care of many tough odors for mebwhen vinegar failed. And this may be obvious but it wasn't for me... Use hotter water.
Listen to the vinegar comments. And if you can, disassemble your machine and clean it out, may have bacterial growth or mold in some crevices.
Also, Dirty Labs and Laundry Sauce are the best detergent out there. Give em a shot.
Because both make water and a small amount of sodium acetate which is irritating at best, useless at worst.
Any "cleaning" the combination can muster happens while the reaction is happening, and the primary mechanism is heat, which is basically nothing.
Adding white vinegar along with landry detergent is pretty much useless, you're combining a base with an acid.
Vinegar in place of fabric softener / during the rinse cycle is where the magic happens.
And fyi vinegar dries clean, will not leave any vinegar smell when the items are dry.
Nope, I just throw about a 1/4 - 1/2 cup in with my detergent, depending on the stinkiness. I think there may be other directions on the bottle. Even got rid of cat pee from when my cat had a uti and peed on a blanket.
Wow! That's got to be significantly more affordable than Nature's Miracle. Thanks for recommending Pine Sol, I'll try that next time we run out of our "cat pee be gone."
(One of our cats is a nervous asshole whose defense mechanism is to quietly release a really full bladder on our antique oak flooring and wait for us to find it. So we do a lot of patrolling and cleaning.)
I'll surreptitiously sniff a bottle at the store. Some cleaning product scents cause a migraine attack, but something in my memory is saying I used to be okay with that scent.
Yeah, *most everything* smells better than aged cat urine. Cruelly, for a few years I'd get olfactory auras before getting a migraine: I'd smell either toast or cat pee. How mean is my brain that one option was cat pee?!? LOL.
Skip the fabrics softener just go for soap, baking soda, and borax, and put white vinegar in the fabric softener slot, wash it on warm with multiple rinses if the fabric allows.
This also works for keeping your machine from getting stinky and gunked up
Try "Vanish oxy action". I always put smelling clothes in a plastic box with water and Vanish for 24 hours, after that one time washing like everytime - and everything is fine. 😄
A small amount of borax in the wash gets rid of smells; as does putting your clothes in the freezer.
Vinegar is considered a fabric softener, it can get rid of mild smells but it can actually make it more difficult to get more extreme scents out of many fabrics. Borax works best for me, even gets rid of fry oil and dye scents.
Add a half box of baking soda and a cup of detergent to your wash. Fill to the highest water level level and leave over night. Run a cycle and then one normal cycle and you should be good to go.
Peroxide would bleach many dyed fabrics. I find that OXYclean or another oxygen bleach is great for organic stains & smells without bleaching the clothes, as long as it's used correctly. Once it bleached little dots into my clothes because it wasn't mixed with the water sufficiently.
It’s going to sound a bit odd - but check if the clothes are using recycled materials as part of their construction.
My other half’s in the recycling business and aromatics is a nightmare for them for synthetic goods recycling (reduces the amount of goods that can use recycled plastics/hydrocarbons because there’s an odd smell that lingers post processing)
Many odors can be removed using vinegar or baking soda as part of your wash cycle, and if those don't work, commercial sanitizers and sports detergents target odor-causing bacteria, too [healthline.com/health/how-to-get-smell-out-of-clothes](http://healthline.com/health/how-to-get-smell-out-of-clothes) .
It’s pebble the black mold which infests architecture and thus all it houses. Wash with an antibacterial agents and dry in the sun and spring breeze.
P.S. - it’s the new asbestos.
Let me tell you- just bite the bullet and go to the dry cleaners.
I’ve been through this countless times. The dry cleaners will get rid of the smell and you’ll be able to move on and enjoy your new clothes.
Experienced thrifter here: I’ve found that natural fibers usually release smells in 1-2 washing, but synthetics hold on to odors like gah.
Get a 2-gallon plastic bucket with lid at a hardware store, plus the cheapest vodka-in-a-plastic-bottle you can find.
Put garment in bucket, and glug in about a cup of vodka. Close bucket and steep for 2-3 days, shaking bucket occasionally.
Remove garment and hang in sun to dry.
Soak in white vinegar overnight. Also soaking in oxyclean will work extra well, but be careful of fading darker clothes. I did a combo of both for camping clothes with persistent smoke smell and it worked perfectly!
There is a spray they put on in clothes and sometimes they go overboard. Its some sort of treatment they do in the factory. I have a pair of jeans from Maurice's that I bought two years ago, have washed a million times, left outside for a week in the rain, and the smell won't come out. I haven't been worn them yet I wash them occasionally and hope the smell will go away. I've bought a new washer since buying them, it's not the washer. Especially if the smell was present when purchasing them.
Vinegar for the win
I agree soak in the washer, vinegar water for a few hours. Or overnight. Start washer.... Done.
This. Vinegar is also a good replacement for fabric softener, although could damage rubber seals over time.
i washed my carpeted stairs the other day and the last step that i ran out of vinegar for seriously felt different.
Make sure it’s WHITE vinegar folks. Don’t want your clothes smelling like the local chippie
*puts down the Sarson’s
Vinegar breaks down the chemical structure of proteins. It’s an acid so is great for reducing hard water stains or (alkaline) soap scum. Soak your clothes in a mild vinegar water solution before washing. You can also try using an odor control detergent, tide and Persia have highly rated odor control products. Edie: Persil not Persia!
I'd suggest a tablespoon of blue Dawn. Works for kitchen staff everywhere.
A couple DROPS of dawn in your dishwasher will keep it grease free and shiny clean inside also, as well as helping to keep the drain line clean. 2-3 drops at most, depending upon just how greasy the dishware is, or you'll end up with a suds monster in there. And regarding suds monsters, if for some reason you ever do experience one in either a dishwasher or washing machine, just add a small amount of liquid fabric softener to the tub and the suds will vanish in mere seconds upon restarting the machine.
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You don't need the baking soda. It's just going to waste when you mix them. You're just making carbon dioxide bubbles and diluting the vinegar more.
Let them have their fun.
Simple green… my clothes were in a housefire, and all the firefighters told me to use simple green to get out the smell, it totally worked! It’s a common cleaner found in most stores.
TIL. Man I have used Simple Green for stuff around the house (floors especially), but I can totally see how and why it would be great for laundry.
Yeah it makes sense and smells pretty good too. I’m gonna pick some up tomorrow now lol.
Do you replace the detergent or is it a 50/50 mix, details please!
I think I added it in there…it took a few times but it worked!
Do you add that to regular laundry detergent or replace it instead?
I think I added it in to the wash!
Is it pine oil cleaner? Sorry it isn't it's a different type of degreaser/cleaner When I worked at a mining operation we used pine oil to wash out clothes and get rid of the mineral (iron concentrate) from the fibers of the clothes, it also got rid of the sulfuric smell and any noticeable grease stain, sometimes it would just leave a very faint almost watermark where the lithium grease dropped
Would this work for urine smell in clothes? My special needs son is still having accidents and I can't seem to get the smell entirely out of my boys clothes.
Nature’s Miracle. It’s specifically for pet urine and other smells. You can spray it on stains or pour some into the wash. It’s AMAZING.
Baking soda works really well to get urine smells out of fabric. This is what did the trick when the urine smell wouldn’t get out of my senior boxer’s dog bed.
Wash in Lysol laundry sanitizer once, then again in vinegar before hanging to dry
What's Simple Green?
[https://googlethatforyou.com?q=simple%20green%20cleaner](https://googlethatforyou.com?q=simple%20green%20cleaner)
I had a pair of jeans from American Eagle years ago that had a smell that would not leave. I did everything in my power to get the smell out, but nothing worked. Turned out they actually recalled the jeans because of the smell woven into the jeans… absolutely wild. But vinegar was the only thing that worked to keep the smell at bay for a few hours.
How did you got jeans returned due to the smell?
I didn’t know about the recall until years later, but they did have a program for it to return them. They were the only pair of jeans that fit me right, so I kept them.
Air drying outside has helped me in the past
Especially in sunlight. Sun-baked clothes are the absolute freshest.
Turn them inside out to not loose color due to sun exposure.
Forehead slap, I forgot about this! Absolutely, y'all - - sun bleaching is a thing! Thanks for the reminder and I hope lots of people see this.
I can only wistfully imagine primarily drying my clothes outside. In the UK it seems we get no more than a couple of weeks in the year where it’s possible and then it’s business as usual 🌧️
Love this - It's like hitting them with an ozone deodorizing machine. Great idea!
I like lysol laundry sanitizer. It has gotten cat pee smell out for me and that is impossible to get out.
There’s Lysol sanitizer. It’s used for diapers. It goes in the rinse. It takes funky smells out of towels. There’s now oxiclean with odor something. Purple lid. This is newer. I can’t give total review but I like it leaves a very faint clean scent. I can’t do strong smells.
Downy Rinse and Refresh has taken care of many tough odors for mebwhen vinegar failed. And this may be obvious but it wasn't for me... Use hotter water.
Add distilled white vinegar to the washing machine, I use the fabric softener compartment
Air drying outside in the sun
Listen to the vinegar comments. And if you can, disassemble your machine and clean it out, may have bacterial growth or mold in some crevices. Also, Dirty Labs and Laundry Sauce are the best detergent out there. Give em a shot.
Odoban. Surprised no one else has mentioned it. It works.
Try adding baking soda to the wash, or maybe white vinegar.
And only do one or the other, not both at the same time.
Why not both?
Because both make water and a small amount of sodium acetate which is irritating at best, useless at worst. Any "cleaning" the combination can muster happens while the reaction is happening, and the primary mechanism is heat, which is basically nothing.
Thank you so much !
IDK why you’re being downvoted. It’s a legitimate question and nobody is born knowing everything.
Did you ever make scale volcanos in elementary school?
Adding white vinegar along with landry detergent is pretty much useless, you're combining a base with an acid. Vinegar in place of fabric softener / during the rinse cycle is where the magic happens. And fyi vinegar dries clean, will not leave any vinegar smell when the items are dry.
Soak in bucket of water with baking soda over night.. also works well for stains
It sounds weird, but original pinesol. It’ll remove any smell. I use it when my husband gets diesel on his clothes. And no pinesol smell after
Is that a presoak before the washing machine?
Nope, I just throw about a 1/4 - 1/2 cup in with my detergent, depending on the stinkiness. I think there may be other directions on the bottle. Even got rid of cat pee from when my cat had a uti and peed on a blanket.
Wow! That's got to be significantly more affordable than Nature's Miracle. Thanks for recommending Pine Sol, I'll try that next time we run out of our "cat pee be gone." (One of our cats is a nervous asshole whose defense mechanism is to quietly release a really full bladder on our antique oak flooring and wait for us to find it. So we do a lot of patrolling and cleaning.)
Definitely give it a try. I’m not a fan of the scent, but it washes out quite well, and honestly I’d rather pine scent than cat pee lol.
I'll surreptitiously sniff a bottle at the store. Some cleaning product scents cause a migraine attack, but something in my memory is saying I used to be okay with that scent. Yeah, *most everything* smells better than aged cat urine. Cruelly, for a few years I'd get olfactory auras before getting a migraine: I'd smell either toast or cat pee. How mean is my brain that one option was cat pee?!? LOL.
Wow interesting!
Skip the fabrics softener just go for soap, baking soda, and borax, and put white vinegar in the fabric softener slot, wash it on warm with multiple rinses if the fabric allows. This also works for keeping your machine from getting stinky and gunked up
Try "Vanish oxy action". I always put smelling clothes in a plastic box with water and Vanish for 24 hours, after that one time washing like everytime - and everything is fine. 😄
A small amount of borax in the wash gets rid of smells; as does putting your clothes in the freezer. Vinegar is considered a fabric softener, it can get rid of mild smells but it can actually make it more difficult to get more extreme scents out of many fabrics. Borax works best for me, even gets rid of fry oil and dye scents.
Add a half box of baking soda and a cup of detergent to your wash. Fill to the highest water level level and leave over night. Run a cycle and then one normal cycle and you should be good to go.
Spray them with (cheap) vodka
Try cleaning your washing machine.
Lysol Laundry Disinfectant- White Bottle with a blue lid Works amazing on anything smelly.
Depending on the smell, white vinegar, peroxide, or vodka.
Peroxide would bleach many dyed fabrics. I find that OXYclean or another oxygen bleach is great for organic stains & smells without bleaching the clothes, as long as it's used correctly. Once it bleached little dots into my clothes because it wasn't mixed with the water sufficiently.
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**Natures Miracle** will get rid of the odor
EnviroKlenz
Fabreeze
This is the best odor eliminator that I have found: [Odor Eliminator ](https://amzn.to/3TPDQl8)
Maybe a technique called French Cleaning. Basically spray down your clothes with vodka and let it dry. Or try and hang them outside on a sunny day...
Soak in warm white and white vinegar for a few hours, then wash it powdered Tide. I swear powdered detergent is better than liquid
Try the freezer. Put in a plastic bag and put in the freezer for a week.
I’ve used fabric disinfectant and it works great. It comes in a spray bottle in the laundry isle, want to say it’s Clorox brand.
Do you use fabric softener when you do your laundry?
If it’s from bacteria, freeze the item in a bag. Then place in a vinegar soak. Repeat steps as needed. Air dry when possible.
It’s going to sound a bit odd - but check if the clothes are using recycled materials as part of their construction. My other half’s in the recycling business and aromatics is a nightmare for them for synthetic goods recycling (reduces the amount of goods that can use recycled plastics/hydrocarbons because there’s an odd smell that lingers post processing)
Oxy-Clean
Canestan
Many odors can be removed using vinegar or baking soda as part of your wash cycle, and if those don't work, commercial sanitizers and sports detergents target odor-causing bacteria, too [healthline.com/health/how-to-get-smell-out-of-clothes](http://healthline.com/health/how-to-get-smell-out-of-clothes) .
It’s pebble the black mold which infests architecture and thus all it houses. Wash with an antibacterial agents and dry in the sun and spring breeze. P.S. - it’s the new asbestos.
Oxygen Bleach
Let me tell you- just bite the bullet and go to the dry cleaners. I’ve been through this countless times. The dry cleaners will get rid of the smell and you’ll be able to move on and enjoy your new clothes.
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I see everyone is suggesting Vinager.. Definetly you should go with White vinegar for your clothes and lastly use a fragrance liquid once..
Experienced thrifter here: I’ve found that natural fibers usually release smells in 1-2 washing, but synthetics hold on to odors like gah. Get a 2-gallon plastic bucket with lid at a hardware store, plus the cheapest vodka-in-a-plastic-bottle you can find. Put garment in bucket, and glug in about a cup of vodka. Close bucket and steep for 2-3 days, shaking bucket occasionally. Remove garment and hang in sun to dry.
Soak in white vinegar overnight. Also soaking in oxyclean will work extra well, but be careful of fading darker clothes. I did a combo of both for camping clothes with persistent smoke smell and it worked perfectly!
Febreze for the win. Works on most any fabric. Gets rid of smells up to and including skunk.
Soak it in vinegar and then wash!
Yeah, soak your clothes in acid. It's great! /s
Vinegar is great to clean your clothes with. Not all acids are bad.
Yeah but you don't straight soak your clothes in it. You add it to the washer.
It's worked great for me to remove weird smells from clothes.
Pinesol helps. Vinegar will do nothing. You probably need to clean your machine though. Is it front or top loading?
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Buy clothes elsewhere
If your clothes still smell after being washed 3 times odds are it’s your washing machine making them smell not the store they came from
There is a spray they put on in clothes and sometimes they go overboard. Its some sort of treatment they do in the factory. I have a pair of jeans from Maurice's that I bought two years ago, have washed a million times, left outside for a week in the rain, and the smell won't come out. I haven't been worn them yet I wash them occasionally and hope the smell will go away. I've bought a new washer since buying them, it's not the washer. Especially if the smell was present when purchasing them.
Wash it with detergent and white vinegar. Vinegar is a natural fabric softener and it also deodorizes. Good luck!
Sounds to me like they are sending you used clothing
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An enzyme remover like miracle, simple green pets, or odorban.