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How to get bad odor out of clothes?

  • 24-03-2015 1:31pm
    #1
    Silent Runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 180 ✭✭


    Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right forum or not.

    I put on a wash a week ago but one of my housemates put in a dirty tea towel(it had a sour milk smell/puke etc), it had been used to clean up some sort of milkshake drink that spilled. I was going to pre soak the towel but it got into the wash by accident. When the clothes came out of the wash they took up the bad odour. So I put them in a second wash and hung them outside for a day or two (out in the day, in at night). I've also sprayed them with a fabreeze aerosol spray but I can still get a slight smell.

    I thought this solved the problem but I'm wearing one of the tops but still seem to be getting a slight odor still. These clothes are just hooddies/tops/tshirts nothing delicate. I was thinking of maybe soaking them over night in biological liquid or baking soda. Has anyone got any other suggestions?

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    Aimeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭Aimeee


    Baking soda I think was the best thing for spilt milk, or was it vinegar?
    Maybe the two together in washing machine or soak? I think it's the baking soda is an odour lifter?
    Google will have the answer.


  • #3
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    The best thing to do is to dry them outside. My towels all smelt horrific for the last few months. I said it to my friend and he said it's due to them being tumble dried rather than outside. So I have dried them outside for the last two weeks and they are odorless finally again


  • #4
    dee_mc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,188 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    What temperature are you washing at? If the smell is still in the machine and you've been washing at a low temperature it would be worth running an empty wash cycle (with detergent but no clothes) at 60 plus degrees to clean it out, before washing the stuff that smells again.


  • #5
    Junglewoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭Junglewoman


    Try a solution of Milton


  • #6
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Aimeee wrote: »
    Baking soda I think was the best thing for spilt milk, or was it vinegar?
    Maybe the two together in washing machine or soak? I think it's the baking soda is an odour lifter?
    Google will have the answer.

    The two together would not be a good idea - they would neutralise one another!


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