How do I get the smell of sweat out of clothes!

MATH

A tiny splosh of bleach in the wash for fabrics and colours that will stand it will kill and BO smell. HTH

Penelope_Penguin

We have an older thread on this subject. I'll add your question to it to keep suggestions together.

Penny. x

Paige

For excess under arm perspiration try Driclor from the chemist. You roll it on underarms and leave it on overnight and you then dont have any problems for about 3/4 weeks. This has changed my life as no more wet patches or whiffs.

Paige X

Newgirl_2

Firstly, while most people call it 'deodorant' what you need to make sure is that you wear 'anti-perspirant'. If excessive perspiration is the problem, I find Driclor is excellent.

The other thing is are you washing at 30 degrees as this doesn't remove the bacteria

Newgirl

avinabacca

Hey there, happy Friday

Wondering if anyone here's been having the same problem with shirts that I have? This year, I've mostly been washing my clothes at 30`C - all good, saves money, energy, the planet etc. Not really had any problems with it - everything came out clean, so seemed to be A Good Thing, moneysaving-wise.

Recently, though, I've noticed that I'm getting a bit of a BO-ey smell off the shirts when I iron the armpit area - also, the armpits of the shirts themselves are looking a bit funny, slightly yellowy. It's a bit manky to look at - it's not as if I'm a scuzzy person, I've not stopped washing or owt!

Now, I never remember having this sort of thing before - I thought it might be a new iron, the water I'm using to iron the shirts, even my washing powder. Now I'm thinking it might be that the wash simply isn't hot enough to clean properly and kill the nasties (hence the whiffiness). Any thoughts?

Also - if anyone can help with the manky armpitness, that would be great. I'm assuming there's a cracking OS cure for this (no doubt involving stardrops, white vinegar and a boilable floorcloth), but if anyone can tell me what it is, that'd be great

Thanks, y'all!

Avonlea

Hi
Can't help with a solution because I'm quite new to all this. I'm keen to hear from others because I notice this with dh work shirts sometimes too.

elona

I slosh some white vinegar on the armpits of the shirts - leave for about an hour then wash on a hotter wash with biopowder.

Never failed so far.

robnye

me thinks it may be a build up of deodorant....

i use underarm roll on deodorant and ove rtime this seems to build up - co sthe wash doesnt clear it.... eventually leading to the shirts/t shirts smelling a little, especially if ironed

nanokitten

I've had this problem with a wool top I handwash.
I think the problem is that bacteria survive happily at 30-40 degrees, it is the bacteria which live on your pits which like the clammy conditions and breed rapidly. So when you put it back on they think yippee and multiply even more.

I found that when my DM ruthlessly washed my best top (at 50 I think) that the problem was solved. I'd wash everything as hot as you dare every now and again in non bio (as this contains lots of optical brighteners to get rid of the yellow) to kill the bugs. also one of the oxy laundry bleaches like astonish or vanish oxy is probalbly good.

I guess for BO a sport deodorant with loads of chemicals is probably your best bet.

picklepick

you could try rubbing a little washing liquid into the stains before you pop them in the wash. ive got a rollerball on my liquid ball for this purpose and it does the trick.