Sweaty clothes

Kellkell · #61 09/11/13, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by freelove

Please do not take offense, I mean no insult with this suggestion. How about the formula for pets that have been sprayed by a skunk?

1 cup of baking soda
1 quart of hydrogen peroxide
couple of squirts of dish soap to lather the mixture

If it works on skunk spray maybe it would work on sweat?

This! Soak with this in cold water. Then wash in warm to hot. Cold gets the stink out better.

PrettyPaisley · #62 09/11/13, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by LisaInN.Idaho

Maybe this has something to do with the commando thing?

No-it's not *that* kind of stink!

It's actually not my clothes as much as it is the towel that covers my mat. The towel that catches the sweat that drips off me ... the one I lie on during parts of the practice. So it's got to be the toxins that I release when I do the yoga sweat. Again-even when I'm commando sweating in my garden clothes - it's not even close to the stench of yoga sweat.

The Bac-Out works like a charm. I've actually started using it when I wash the towels I use in the barn on the goats. It takes all the smell out-so I figure it has to be the bacteria from the detoxing. I'm just glad I found a solution !!!

Grandmotherbear · #63 09/12/13, 09:08 AM

Some of us just have a detectable scent, and as others have said, stress sweat smells different.
I have noticed, now, about 13 years or so post menopause, that my personal odor has altered to be more like what I remember my father's scent as. And it clings to my skin. I could hand lather in my 20s thru early 50s in the shower, but for the last 5-10 years HAVE to lather with a wash cloth or the odors remain.
Gonna make note of all these solutions for future use.
PS Viet Cong back in the day could smell out American GIs. Meat eaters have a stronger odor than rice eaters.

michiganfarmer · #64 09/12/13, 01:42 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!

Yes it sure does

MichaelZ · #65 09/12/13, 05:57 PM

For me, any colored tshirts get a bad smell that gets reactivated with the lightest perspiration. White shirts are fine. Something with the dye and my sweat and possibly our water as well. Only me in the family. Would be a good chemistry project.

So I wear my red and dark t-shirts jogging and nothing else. Let them dry out and they go in the wash.
And boy I do sweat out a lot when jogging!