How to remove body odour from husband's business shirts?

Question

The only thing that works is soaking them overnight in Napisan. This ultimately takes it toll on good shirts over time. I have tried sprays and rubbing the area. Help.

Answer 1

For the symptoms of the problem:

Odor fighting detergents. Gain, Surf, Arm and Hammer all claim to work extra well on stinky laundry. I don't know if I buy the hype but it is worth a try. I use Arm and Hammer, and consistently washed my camping laundry with it. This is a week at a time, no shower, dreadful socks, pitted shirts, ratty gear. It all came out fine. Sometimes I soaked it a little before starting the wash cycle.

Baking soda in the wash, vinegar in the rinse.

For the source of the problem:

Fragrances DO affect some people. If the sweat is somehow allergic as if the skin is regurgitating something it doesn't like with excessive sweating, or if the odor is compounded by souring and mixing foully with the fragrance, then you are looking at double trouble.

I assume your hub is aware of this problem. Ask him to change to unscented products in the shower, unscented deodorant with antiperspirant, Mitchum is very good. I used this camping to keep the reeking to a minimum.

Have him dress a little cooler, maybe he gets hot during the day. So he can ditch the sweaters, go with a lighter blazer or suit coat, etc whenever possible. Have him wear a COAT for outside only instead of dressing warm all the time for those times he is outside. At the same time, you may be able to get him to wear a Tshirt underneath...to catch most of the odor before it settles on the shirt. It will be a lot more durable than his dress shirts, and can be treated rough, even bleached as needed. Cheap to replace if you are hard on them in the laundry.

Check the fibers of the shirts he wears. Switch to naturals. Cotton, linen, etc. Even if you need to iron them, cutting the polyester helps with smell because synthetics hang on to smells like crazy. This is what all the performance active wear is made of (100% polyester in special weaves) such as UnderArmor. They work by wicking moisture away from the skin and holding it in the garment to keep you cool but the fabric itself gets uber-stinky. So if his dress shirts have any rayon, polyester, etc in them, switch to 100% cotton or natural fibers.

Answer 2

Remove the husband? Sounds a lot easier than all that nappy malarky .......lol

Maybe you should go to a good pharmacist and ask him what would help your husband from sweating so much and having such smelly sweat.

Does he eat a lotof spicy food? That can come out in some peoples body odour,in which case try to switch his diet to lots of good simple foods.

Answer 3

How about wearing deoderant? Or pit pads? Does he shower daily? If all that fails, contact a professional launderer and ask what works. Or log onto Martha Stewart, she always has tips for whatever ails the household.

Answer 4

Throw a quarter cup of baking soda in your wash--kills almost every stink without being harsh on fabrics.

Answer 5

I prewash in baking soda and then regular wash in fragrance free detergent, softner and dryer sheets. (sometimes fragrance will agrivate the underarm smell problem) try to get him to use fragrance free deoderant.

Answer 6

add baking soda to the wash. it will boost the laundry soap power and take the odor out

Answer 7

try two things dont mix them . one viniger in the water white viniger . that also will allow you to dry them outside in the winter if you want .
2 baking soda. in the water.

Answer 8

Drop them off at a dry-cleaning place