Washing Musty Smelling Clothes

Try washing them in baking soda along with detergent if that doesn't work try some oxy clean or clorox 2 for colors with detergent. I like the clorox 2 liquid to be honest with my detergent but baking soda also works great for smells.

Hi Julie,
When I bring up winter clothes from the basement they too smell a bit musty. I wash them with my standard detergeant (Arm & Hammer) but add one cup of white vinegar to the water and 1/2 cup of baking soda. That usually does the trick and everything smells sweet once again. Good luck!

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I wash all of my clothes with OxyClean unscented powder; add 1 cup white vinegar to the wash; add 1/2 cup white vinegar to the fabric softener dispenser. Works like a charm!

Add baking soda and wash with your regular detergent. Hang outside in the sunshine to dry. Works every time.

Good luck.

just plain baking soda may work.

Hi Julie,
Ditto on the baking soda.
My cellar can be musty so I store EVERYTHING in plastic totes. The ones with clothes I line the bottom and cover the top with plain white tissue paper, and place a scented fabric softener sheet on top of the tissue paper. This is my 7th house (so far) and I haven't lost any clothes to smell of mildew yet.

Hi Julie, Nature Bright is a non-toxic laundry booster that gets out even stubborn stains, so I would think it would also get out the musty odors you are dealing with, especially when put together with Shaklee's non-toxic detergent. Recently, I forgot a wash in the washing machine for two days (I don't know where my head was), and my husband noticed it and put it in the dryer. Of course, the clothes smelled musty from having set in the washer wet for so long - smelled like old milk. Anyway, I put them in the washer again with Nature Bright and Shaklee detergent, and they came out smelling great. Also, any clothing that I have soaked in Nature Bright for grease stains (that also smelled of gasoline)have come out of the wash smelling like new again. Yes, I happen to be a Shaklee distributor; however, I am simply trying to help you with your issue of musty clothes. If you wish to try the Nature Bright and/or detergent, please either call me, e-mail me or go directly to my website www.emilytaft.com I am in Georgetown; are you close by? I could drop off a sample of each for you to try first if you like. I am not trying to push Shaklee on you but am simply trying to help you as you have requested. If you are not interested in trying Shaklee, that's fine -- it is just a suggestion of something that will probably work. Best Wishes. E. Taft ###-###-#### ____@____.com

try a half to 1 full cup of baking soda in the laundry along with your detergent. It works great! good luck!

White Vinegar ('bout a cup for a large load) in the rinse. :)

add 1/2 cup of baking soda to your regular load.

Hi Julie,
I would recommend baking soda.

add white vinagar to the laundry. vinagar takes smells out of fabrics but will not make your clothes smell like vinager either.

My DD is potty trained but when playing refuses to leave to use the toilet so we have tons of pee smelling everything. I have been using OXY Clean powder. I don't even add the whole amount and it takes care of the pee smell. My sister in law swares by it.
I know it's not musty smelling but it's worth the try.

try baking soda in the wash, and lying them out to dry in the sun... good luck!

try putting a cup full of white vinigar in the wash...it elimenates odors and brightens clothes

Put some white vinegar, about a cup, in each wash load, it really freshens things and naturally too!

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Baking soda, put baking soda in the wash , use detergent too...let them soak in full washer fifteen minutes or so....Do you have an outside clothesline? That will help if you dry them outside.
Best wishes and God bless
Grandmother Lowell