How to tell a close relative they smell?!

eamon

I agree with most of the posters in that it is likely to be a laundry issue. Had a similar issue with a work colleague and poor laundry skills was the problem. Get that addressed and the issue will likely vanish.

Frugalbride

Thank you. Think I will raise it one last time in a direct way and maybe suggest that anti bac washing powder.
Wonder if anything else would work? White vinegar?

Talking about it in that way is less awkward as it is the clothes not the man if you see what I mean.

Worth another shot. If not cotton wool up the nose may have to be the way forward.

Humphrey10

Frugalbride wrote: »

Thank you. Think I will raise it one last time in a direct way and maybe suggest that anti bac washing powder.
Wonder if anything else would work? White vinegar?

Washing at 40 degrees. Tumble drying his clothes. Drying them outside.

Bennifred

If they have to dry laundry inside without a tumbledrier then a dehumidifier will help.

I'd get his mother on his case!

paulineb_2

I tumble dry clothes sometimes but not others, I use a laundrette at times that has a tumble dryer. Ive mostly dried clothes indoors in my time of living where I live now, thats nearly 20 years, washing clothes in a washing machine and letting them dry inside never made my clothes smell, at all.

Wearing clothes damp wont help, but washing clothes and drying them over a clothes horse always worked fine for me, Im not sure theres any reason to panic about that. Theres so many other factors you wont know, how often hes washing his clothes, what his own hygiene is like, as people have said, likely to be a mix of things.

marisco_2

Frugalbride wrote: »

At Christmas he smelled and I told him and asked him to wash and change his top. He laughed it off, didn't and then stank the room out for the rest f the evening! This annoyed me to say the least, as I think it is selfish.

Could this guy have a medical condition that is causing him to smell? When he laughed your comments off maybe it was his way of deflecting away from a situation he didn't feel able to discuss with you.