pet urine, whiskey, perfume, you can use white vinegar to get rid of most smells on most materials: carpets, furniture, clothes, without damaging the material.
vinegar is amazing at breaking down odors and then evaporating and not leaving a trace.
pet urine, whiskey, perfume, you can use white vinegar to get rid of most smells on most materials: carpets, furniture, clothes, without damaging the material.
vinegar is amazing at breaking down odors and then evaporating and not leaving a trace.
I went to your name to trace back how we’d gotten started on the conversation, was interrupted by other events, came back to my phone and flicked down the page, and saw “vinegar” which caught my eye because strong opinion.
You know the meme of the old lady peering at the screen through her granny glasses? Basically me but on my phone.
Washing in a washing machine, added white vinegar to the rinse water, dried fully in the dryer, vinegar smell permeated the washer/dryer room but it’s in the basement of the apartment building and the towels seemed okay so I didn’t worry about it. But as soon as the towels were used the smell returned. I washed and dried them again, no vinegar, just scentless Tide pod, again the smell returned when they were used and got damp. I don’t use vinegar on anything else in the bathroom nor on myself, because I don’t like the smell. I think people who do like it should go ahead and use it, because it’s effective at cleaning and killing mold, but I don’t and I won’t.
I’m going to try to get back to “Top of Last 6 Hours” and stay there, but it’s possible we’ll run into each other again. No enmity intended, just a different experience leading to a different opinion. Have fun!
And again, good on you for having voted already. Much more important than towels. My vote counts for not much, being in a deep blue district of a blue state with a large population, but I have family in PA who also voted for Harris.
gpt it. it sounds like the lingering vinegar has been tied up with your detergent’s bonding agent, which stays on fibers for multiple wash cycles after being used once.
If you mix vinegar into oil or alcohol, it can get stained into fibers, but if you completely dry and then throw it under the sun for the afternoon, flip it over to make sure all of the acetic acidd bonded into the fibers gets a chance to evaporate, that vinegar smell will go away.
it’s all tied to that one compound evaporating.
If you wash your towel once with the detergent and then wash it three times with no detergent, you’ll still have that slight deyergent smell because of the bonding agent in the detergent.
PA resident here, coincidentally.
have a good rest of your day,; i appreciate your explanation.