How to Get Smell Out of Underwear

When you wash your clothes, you want them to come back smelling clean. This rule is especially important for your underwear. Everyone wants to smell fresh when they get dressed. Dealing with lingering smells of pee, poop or menstrual odors above and beyond what any reasonable person would find acceptable. Bodily fluids and solid waste stuff should leave once and never, ever make its presence known to your nostrils again. It should not be caught lurking in your underwear. That’s just plain nasty. Fortunately, this guide will show you how to get smell out of underwear so you can be fresh as a daisy every day.


 

The issue when you have stinky underwear is that you don’t know whether you are the only one who notices the issue or not. Throwing out the potentially offensive undergarment is not an option for everyone, but you don’t want to spend your day constantly sniffing around either to see if that offensive stank is coming from you. A much better choice is to use one of the solutions posted here and try to face the stink head on (figuratively speaking, that is).

 

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How to Get Smell Out of Underwear: Pee

1 Add Baking Soda to Your Wash

No one wants to put on underwear that reeks of pee after it comes back from the wash. To get rid of this yecchy stank, you can add some baking soda to your wash water. Rather than cleaning out the supply of small boxes at the grocery store like someone on one of those extreme couponing programs on television, pay a visit to a bulk store to stock up. This is the most economical way to buy the stuff. Add a half a cup with your detergent every time you wash your clothes to get the smell out. The baking soda is safe to use on all fabrics.

 

2 Pour Some Vinegar into the Water

White vinegar will neutralize the smell of urine in your underwear. If you decide to try this method, substitute the vinegar for your regular fabric softener. Adding the extra product to your wash water can make it more challenging to rinse the clothes thoroughly. To get the pee smell out, you want to give the vinegar a chance to cut through the cut through the water so that it can unlock any trapped stank.

 

3 Increase the Water Temperature

Washing your clothes in cold water is a good choice if you want to save money on your heating bills, but it won’t help if you are trying to get a urine smell out of your underwear. In this instance, warm or even hot water is a better choice when odor removal is your goal. You can separate out the urine-soaked items from your regular wash and run a load in warmer water. Wash the rest of your clothes in cold water if you are concerned about keeping your overall costs down.

 

Get Poop Smell Out of Underwear

1 Lemon-Scented Ammonia Rescue

To banish the smell of poop from your underwear, add some lemon-scented ammonia to the water. If you can’t find the lemon-scented variety, plain ammonia will do. Remember not to mix this product with bleach. It can be used with your regular laundry detergent, though, to eliminate the sewer stench and make you actually want to step in to your underwear again.

 

2 Vinegar in a Downy Ball

You can eliminate the crappy smell from your unmentionables in an easy and convenient way by filling a Downy ball with vinegar instead of the fabric softener. Toss it into the washing machine at the beginning of the cycle and you don’t have to worry about “catching” the rinse cycle to add some vinegar to your wash. The ball will open up at the right time to release it and you can move on to other things.

 

3 Scent-A-Way Laundry Detergent

This product was originally developed for hunters, but it can probably handle the stank of feces as well. You have to figure that someone who has been outside in a blind or tramping around in the bush all day must smell pretty rank. The soap works by oxidizing the source of the door. It also prevents any stray matter from redepositing on your other clothes in the wash, which is an important consideration in these delicate matters. The product is concentrated, so a little will go a long way.

 

4 Febreze it Out

Adding some Febreze to your wash is a another solution to the poopy problem. You don’t need to add a large amount to bring the stank under control. Try a capful (approximately 1/8 of a cup) in your wash.

 

Get Period Smell Out of Underwear

1 Dish Detergent to the Rescue

Try washing your undergarments by hand with some dish detergent. Soaking them with a mild soap can lift out this intimate odor. You can still throw the underwear into the washing machine and run it through the regular cycle to make sure you have dealt with the stink problem appropriately.

 

2 Greenyarn Underwear

This solution for the issue of getting period smell falls into the category of nipping the problem in the bud. Greenyarn underwear by Charcoal House is made with a special Eco-fabric that has anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and deodorizing properties. If you want to avoid stinky panties, start by wearing ones that are less likely to absorb odors in the first place.

 
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Joe Fresh

Joe is an odor combatant, chemistry extraordinaire and all around good guy. He has an over-productive olfactory system with absolutely zero tolerance for unpleasant aromas.

4 thoughts on “How to Get Smell Out of Underwear”

  1. Thank you for the above information. The smell I’m trying to get out of underwear is truly body odor (versus pee, poo, or menstrual) like you smell in shirt armpits. I must really sweat between my legs! I’ve tried adding vinegar to the wash water and it doesn’t help at all. After I’ve washed and dried the underwear, it smells as though it hasn’t been cleaned at all.

    Please advise!

  2. Thanks for the advice on getting poop smell out. I had a pair of underwear that I thought I was going to have to throw away before I read your advice!

  3. Put those smelly panties in a bowl and get them good and wet with hydrogen peroxide. Let sit for 1o minutes and toss in the wash. Good as new!

  4. I have tried everything, I mean everything! I got the stank that stinks, nothing works I am up to 5 showers a day and 3 loads of laundry but the stank keeps stinking! What can I do please email me all and every tip you have. I am desperate and I will do anything to keep me from stanking!

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