Clothes smelling of wet dog after washing and drying...

Ben84

minniemaus1970 wrote: »

in the meantime put your washingmachine on an empty boilwash-cycle, with some added vinegar and a lil bleach, it stinks but works!! that will shift the wet mutt smell ( which comes from soap deposit-leftover in the machine and hose that have gone off, especially when cold cycles and non bio are used a lot)
MM

Bleach and vinegar are *not* good things to mix. Acid (any type) causes bleach to release chlorine gas. How much gas you get depends on how much you mix, but apparently fairly small amounts, half a cup of each for example, can release dangerous amounts of chlorine gas.

Lyndlou

It’s a problem I’ve only had for about three years. It tends to be waistbands of trousers, tracky bottoms, jeans. Sometimes men’s pants. It’s foul. I can rewash 3 times sometimes. I rarely leave washing in machine and that doesn’t coincide with the smell. I can get straight out and line dry outside in hot blowey weather and still get it. It’s a real nightmare. I do all the tried methods but doesn’t make any better. Smells fab when it comes out. You can wash say 4 pairs trousers and some will be fine and then 1 say be disgusting. No rhyme or reason.

SomeGuyCalledX

I know this is a super old thread, but it still flagged up when I searched, so decided to share my theory. As with everyone else,some items of clothing items are stinking awful after a wash. Now check this out. Certain items smell pretty good, as you expect clean and fresh, others,consistently smell like wet dog, or other moist creatures. These items are from the same wash too.

Suppose its not the washing, or the wearing... its actually the materials and dyes?

Now I'm taking into account, what I do in the clothing, work, chill, exercise, sleep etc, there is no "activity" associated with a particular smell. Something I sleep in smells nice, another I sleep in may stink. Same goes for the other activities and garements

I then asked myself, where did I purchase this stuff, and what is the actual quality. here's my initial finds. Ts etc that stink are often items I've bought online, Ts with special designs etc, you know these print anything on anything websites that pop-up on facebook etc. Others from alternatively questionable sources.

My wife noted the smell was identical to the tanning joints found in Morocco.

Here's my conclusion. We haven't really changed how we wash, rinse, dry or iron in decades, you're doing nothing wrong... However, what has become more popular is where clothing items are produced, and even more important dyed. I genuinely think that these smells are coming from particular dyes, or materials used for manufacturing our garments,and these materials aren't necessarily the quality as advertised on the tin.

psst. "someone tell me they have a genuine Gucci or Armani item of clothing that stinks like this after a wash, I'll shut up right now."

I'm not saying the places of manufacture are sweatshops or generally "bad places", just the local materials used are not so "nose-friendly" once they get wet.

I don't think we are doing anything wrong, we are great at laundry, the problem is what materials our garments are "actually" be manufactured with, and how they are being dyed.

Note: This is completely a theory.