I left my laundry in the washer for 3 days by mistake and now the clothes smell bad, how do i get smell out?

Question

PS: Rewashing doesn't help !

They're all dark coloured clothing, and i don't think rewashing will help !

Answer 1

Rewash the clothes but add 1 cup of white distilled vinegar to the wash. Vinegar kills mold/mildew, deodorizes and acts as a fabric softener. Scented fabric softeners, dryer sheets, detergents, etc... will only mask the odor, it will not kill the mold/mildew problem.

Answer 2

Rewashing will help, just pull the clothes off the sides of the washer, put more detergent in and rewash. Make sure the washer isn't over loaded. I have sometimes thought mine still smelled bad after rewashing to, but after you put them in the dryer with a dryer sheet ( I use bounce) they smelled great.

Answer 3

Try rewashing your clothes. They smell bad because leaving them in a close-up area for a long time is called mildew.

Answer 4

If the clothes will stand it (i.e. not dark or mixed colors), rewash but add a little liquid bleach. Be sure to read the directions on your bleach bottle, if you add too much this can ruin the clothes totally!!! But if you add just a small amount, it will kill the mildew and odor-causing bacteria perfectly. This is in fact not a bad idea once in a while especially for whites, helps keep things sanitary and avoid that "old clothes" smell.

Answer 5

Cold Water Tide will get the smell out of your clothes. You may also have some mildew in your actual washing machine tub. Let's get that washer clean first, ok? Ok.

*****Get all of your dark clothes
out of the washer, and set them aside*****

Fill the washer with HOT water and add one cup of bleach to that washer. Do not add any clothes, you want it to be empty. Let it run through all the cycles. Then run it through the wash cycle all over again, again without any clothes, and this time add some laundry detergent to the full washer of warm water. Let it run through all of the cycles, to be sure you've gotten all the bleach out. Now your washer shouldn't stink like mildew anymore.

Next you want to use Tide Cold Water, with cold water, and wash your dark stinky stuff in that. You want to use the maximum level of water. The more water the better. Fill that puppy up!! You might have to wash your clothes two or three times to get the funk out, sugar.

Tide Cold Water will get everything clean, and it should have them smelling good soon.

Answer 6

if the fabriccan handle it rewash with warm water setting, color safe bleach, liquid fabric softener, and when ready for dryer add one or two dryer sheets

Answer 7

Add some pinesol to the wash, along with detergent.
Wash in hotter water, if you can. Do not put laundry in dryer until it smells better. Ammonia might help if you have that. I wouldn't mix the ammonia and the pinesol, but you can use them separately.

Answer 8

Again, rewash your clothes and if you can, get some dryer sheet fabric softener with Febreeze in it.

Answer 9

If you rewash them AFTER soaking them in soapy water it may help. They also make a febreeze for laundry that may help as well.

Answer 10

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