Sweaty clothes

PrettyPaisley · #1 07/05/13, 10:45 AM

I'm not talking about just dirty garden clothes. I mean stinky sweaty beastly smelling clothes.

Like no amount of vinegar and borax is even close to touching it. How do I get the smell out ?

Ceilismom · #2 07/05/13, 10:50 AM

What type of fabric are these clothes made from?

Alice In TX/MO · #3 07/05/13, 10:50 AM

Oxyclean.

Ernie · #4 07/05/13, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Ceilismom

What type of fabric are these clothes made from?

Forget what kind of fabric they're made from.

Paisley, what the heck are y'all EATING that makes your sweat smell that bad? Toxic waste?

I can work up a pretty good funk, but a run through the washing machine and an hour on the clothesline and my clothes smell pretty fresh again. Fresher than I usually do when I put them on.

willow_girl · #5 07/05/13, 11:00 AM

Ammonia

Ardie/WI · #6 07/05/13, 11:01 AM

Awhile back, DH got some awful mechanical stuff on some bibs. I washed then twice in HOT water and they still stunk!

I hung them outside for a week through a few big rain storms and the smell disappeared. My grandmother told me many years ago that rain, fresh air and sunshine takes out stink!

jwal10 · #7 07/05/13, 11:21 AM

Me thinks it has something to do with that billy goat she needed hauled....James

ldc · #8 07/05/13, 11:21 AM

Polyester fibers tend to hold onto the funky smell longer; I do the hanging outside til it's gone method, too.

PrettyPaisley · #9 07/05/13, 11:59 AM

It's my yoga clothes. I don't know what they are made from but I'm sure it's synthetic. I sweat SO much in that class-I am not lying when I say my shins sweat.

. I might glow a bit when I'm in the garden or milking goats but its *nothing* like how I sweat in yoga. It's quite embarrassing but luckily I'm not the only one sweating like a beast. And I don't think I smell-I think it's the way the clothes hang on to the sweat. Or at least that's the story I'm sticking with.

plowhand · #10 07/05/13, 12:21 PM

Hang 'em in the sun a while, and/or let them soak in the borax and water a day or so/add some washing soda in wouldn't hurt. If that don't work I'd trash em, cause they must be made outta something unsafe!

jwal10 · #11 07/05/13, 12:29 PM

Me, I would put them in the horse trough that the spring runs in all the time, for a full day, then wash them, then hang in the sunshine and wind....James

Ernie · #12 07/05/13, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by PrettyPaisley

It's my yoga clothes. I don't know what they are made from but I'm sure it's synthetic. I sweat SO much in that class-I am not lying when I say my shins sweat.

. I might glow a bit when I'm in the garden or milking goats but its *nothing* like how I sweat in yoga. It's quite embarrassing but luckily I'm not the only one sweating like a beast. And I don't think I smell-I think it's the way the clothes hang on to the sweat. Or at least that's the story I'm sticking with.

I thought yoga was supposed to be relaxing.

When it's a crazy hot day and I'm in the workshop sanding wood, all the sawdust sticks to me and I come out looking like a powdered donut. It's embarrassing because my wife sends me to the pond for a dip and then I leave a ring around the pond.

am1too · #13 07/05/13, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Ardie/WI

Awhile back, DH got some awful mechanical stuff on some bibs. I washed then twice in HOT water and they still stunk!

I hung them outside for a week through a few big rain storms and the smell disappeared. My grandmother told me many years ago that rain, fresh air and sunshine takes out stink!

Maybe diesel fuel. Use a can of coke cola.

JoePa · #14 07/05/13, 01:36 PM

Over the years I smelled some pretty bad stuff - being in the Army and all that - but the worst smell that I can remember - this is a true story - the wife and I went to a resturant which had a very large room - we sat down at a table - after awhile a real stinky odor came our way - we thought that someone sitting near us really stunk - we were about to get up and sit somewhere else - when this girl - I'd say she was in her late 20s - early 30s - or so - came out of the ladies room and walked past our table - she was dress in running cloths - she must have been jogging or something - holy mackeral - the smell nearly knock us over - it was horrible - if you could bottle it - it would have been a weapon of mass distruction - I've been in many men's locker rooms and never even encountered anything approaching this - I sure would hate to go into a ladies(?) locker room - so ladies you don't have to take a back seat when it comes to stinking -

Ardie/WI · #15 07/05/13, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by am1too

Maybe diesel fuel. Use a can of coke cola.

I'll remember that!

Ceilismom · #16 07/05/13, 01:53 PM

I used to cloth diaper my babies, and I found that synthetic fabrics were much harder to remove odors from, even if the diapers were from all appearances, clean. Biokleen makes an enzyme product called Bac-Out that worked better than anything else I tried.

geo in mi · #17 07/05/13, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by willow_girl

Ammonia

Only ammonia, NOT ammonia and chlorine bleach together, right????????(Makes phosgene gas--mustard gas)

RIGHT???

geo

NamasteMama · #18 07/05/13, 01:55 PM

TIde sport, its the only thing that works on synthetic stink.

PrettyPaisley · #19 07/05/13, 03:24 PM

It must be a synthetic thing. I quit cloth diapers because I simply could not get the smell out. Nothing like the scent of warm baby pee when you open the dryer. I may be as natural as I can with the girls but both of their butts got wrapped in plastic, earth-destroying chemicals. I'm just not that gooda woman.

And I promise- if I have to go in public after yoga I do shower first. I wouldn't inflict my sweat on any other innocent soul !!

Alice In TX/MO · #20 07/05/13, 03:27 PM

Do you take a lot of B vitamins?