The stink

[jessmarimba]

I do that now and again to my washer. As a side note, it would probably be best to use one or the other. Vinegar is an acid and baking soda a base so one would cancel the other out? If I accidently leave towels in the washer overnight I rewash them with just vinegar to get that musty smell out. Works.

I think it's supposed to be vinegar in the start, baking soda in the rinse cycle.

I'd guess bleach would work just fine, but I don't actually own any so I can't personally vouch. I bought a gallon of vinegar to clean up cat accidents because my blind one would keep re-using the same spots if I washed with anything else, and I've used it ever since.

[sookiesue]

I tried the vinegar and it worked pretty well! I poured it into both the bleach dispenser and the fabric softener dispenser and that must have been enough for a load of clothes because my jersey didn't seem to stink anymore.

I'm fine with good old hard-earned sweat smell. These jerseys would stink after a ride, I'd take them off and sniff myself and my own body didn't stink like that, it was just the fabric. Glad to have found some ways to remedy it!

TrekJeni - would using the powder from zinc supplement capsules be effective? If that is the ingredient in the shampoo that does the trick, I was wondering if you could just pour a couple of capsules' worth of zinc into the wash with your clothes to the same effect. Any thoughts on that? Might solve the problem of oversudsing.