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How to Clean Sour Smelling Clothing

August 1, 2008

Woman unloading sour smelling laundryI am looking for help with stinky sour clothing.

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By redbudtx (Guest Post)
August 1, 20081 found this helpful
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Wash them with a cup of vinegar added to the washing machine. Vinegar also kills germs.

 
December 26, 20101 found this helpful
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The sour smell is butyric acid; it's water soluble, but some fabrics take a long time to diffuse out the stuff. One wash cycle isn't always enough. Soak the garment (overnight in a bucket of water) and maybe change the water and give it a second day. One pound of clothes, ten pounds of water, means you diminish the odor maybe 90 percent with every change of fluid.

The problem eventually will go away with just regular washing, too (but each wash is fifteen minutes of water contact, versus fifteen hours of contact if you leave it in a bucket overnight).

 
Anonymous
November 2, 20150 found this helpful
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Use ammonia in wash & soak after agitating then let sit for a hour or more depending on smell. Then rinse out. Fill wash tub with water with same clothes, add vinegar abt 1/2.

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Cup then run thru wash cycle as usual. This noally takes.care of any odor. Have used this method many years successfully.

 
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