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Removing Moth Ball Smell from Vintage Fabric?

I just got a great score of vintage fabric from an old barn sale. Some smells like moth balls really badly. Most has had some mouse poop/urine on it. The latter I know a wash will fix, but the mothballs?

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Vinegar is my normal go to for things of annoyance. But cold, warm, hot water? I don't want to fade it out, I just want the stench gone.
Would I be better off soaking in a mix of baking soda and vinegar?
Help. Please.

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Anonymous
April 10, 20160 found this helpful
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Try putting a lot of cedar balls everywhere and get the real cedar, that smells the loudest.

 
October 20, 20160 found this helpful

That is only a cover up. It doesn't ELIMINATE the mothball smell. Same with Frabreze.
Plus everyone should read up about Fabreze health issues.

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It makes me sick and dizzy.
Turns out I'm not the only one.
Everyone educate yourself about these chemical cover ups.
Even fabric softnesrs and scented laundry soap.
Now with the new front load washers that use WAY LESS water, the soap and softners don't come out.
Then u put this on your children. Their own body heat make the Fragrense emit from the clothing.
This clothing is right UNDERNEATH THEIR LITTLE NOSES!!
They are BREATHING IN THOSE MAN MADE CHEMICALS.
Petroleum chemicals. These chemicals actually are able to pass the brain barrier when breathed thru their noses.
Then at nite after a nice bath using chemically scented bath gels and body lotions, they climb into a nice freshly laundered bed and breath in more man made chemicals all nite long!
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We wonder why they can't focus or sit still in school. Or just don't feel good, but can't explain why or what is wrong.
You think when they show a pretty flower or herb on the package, that's what in it, right?
Wrong. Even " natural essential oils" are usually produces by extracting the oils using petrochemicals.
Unless ur making these oils yourself ...... don't believe what you read.
Plus some people and children especially are sensitive to the aroma of lavender or thyme and many others.
It can make their little eyes feel tired or burn same with their skin.
I finally had to switch my family over to coconut oil.
Not butter, oil. Comes in a big jar and looks like mayonnaise lol. It has absolutely no scent and nothing else in it or used in it to process it.
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Please people, please rethink all the yummy perfumes lotions and other scented things you use.
If not for you then for your children.
Or for the people like me, that are sitting next to you, or walk pass you in the grocery store.
I die.

 
August 26, 20170 found this helpful

amen!

 
June 19, 20161 found this helpful
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Mouse urine and feces are a scare for the hantavirus. It is best to burn! Be sure to wear mask and gloves!

 
March 28, 20160 found this helpful

I found this article, I hope it helps!

www.stretcher.com/.../010924b.cfm

 
July 28, 20160 found this helpful

Have do you get the moth ball silver out b your house

 

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