After a busy weekend, our employees have to restock a lot of the store, so a Monday morning shopping trip is almost guaranteed to be fruitful.
McDonnell said. Goodwill sprays their clothes with a generic deodorizer. They do this to mask the many odors that can be present in the garments. Very smelly clothes are discarded by Goodwill. There is a well known phenomenon where people find some peoples natural scent repelling. Goodwill does not prepare items before they sell them. One way is to pour some vinegar into a small bowl and let it sit in a small room or closet with your vintage garment hanging over it.
Let it hang there for a night or two. The vinegar should absorb the smell. Yup, thrift shopping is totally OK, whether or not you can afford to buy at retail price. Start filling the washer with water. There will be a chemical smell that will dissipate in a few days.
There is NO fragrance at all in this product. Its job is to neutralize VOCs, and it does this superbly by using soap and hydrogen peroxide. Back to the washer…. After it fills, let it agitate for min. Then stop it and let the clothes soak for 2 hours. Then finish the cycle and put in dryer or hang on line. There may be a residual smell for a few days, but it is NOT fragrance and it is not toxic. I experimented with the solutions with stinky laundry, and this is what works best.
For items too big for your washer, go to a laundromat with your 2 cups of solution mixed up and add it to the wash cycle like detergent. No need to use any laundry detergent with it. Throw them in the laundromat dryer. It will dissipate in a few days and is non-toxic. I hope this helps. It has saved my sanity. Now to figure out how to Febreze off a sofa. Permanent oil-based stink. It should be illegal. I agree. Fatalbreze is really toxic.
If only people would do the research…. I Just Washed two Goretex paclite jackets with Seventh Generation Bathroom cleaner with Thymol, this was a last resort and results are great! I used a full cup of dye free detergent as well.
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August 24, at pm. August 30, at pm. Sharron says:. January 16, at pm. Febreze came back a week later Any suggestions from anyone is helpful. February 7, at pm. Shannon says:. March 12, at pm. March 15, at pm. Disgusted says:. Typically, any item that you can clean well is a safe bet. When things sit for years, they accumulate dust, dirt, residue, or even mold. Most thrift stores don't wash the clothes before selling them. However, thrift stores usually sort through the merchandise before displaying it and throw out anything that's stained, has a bad odor, or damaged.
Clothes in the thrift store usually look clean, but they may have touched things you would never imagine. Because the supply was greater than the demand and donations came in faster than they could sell them.
Goodwill and most of the big, charitable resale shops spray their clothing with the synthetic chemical concoction that causes so many people health issues: Febreze. If you make a purchase using links in this article, I could receive a commission. Please see my Privacy Policy for information.
Love shopping thrift stores and Goodwill for second hand clothes? Me, too. So I was determined to find out how to get the smell out of thrift store and consignment clothes and also hand-me down clothing. For someone like me who is very sensitive to artificial fragrance and smells, buying second hand clothing can be a big problem and a big headache. That thrift store smell can also come from moth balls or perfume , too.
Or, it can be a combination of all of them. Can you imagine someone who wore too much perfume who washed their clothing with artificially fragranced fabric softener and then hung their clothing in a closet with moth balls before donating to Goodwill? Usually the laundry products they use on their clothing is full of synthetic chemicals. And those chemicals build up over time on the clothing.
The synthetic fragrances embed in the fibers, and it can be hard to eliminate the fabric softener smell. Not only can the fragrance cause headaches and allergies in some people, but a study found that scented laundry products release carcinogens cancer-causing substances. So before I can wear anything that I find at Salvation Army, Goodwill of ThredUp , I have to get the smell out of thrift store and consignment clothes!
When I bought these amazing finds from thredUp I absolutely loved the clothing when it came. But I got an instant headache from the smell on the shirt.
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