Launder items using hot water, regular amount of detergent, and 1 cup each of white vinegar and baking soda. Repeat if any smoke smell remains. DO NOT dry until smoke smell is gone. This worked beautifully on my daughter's garments after her apartment complex had a fire. Most loads had to be run twice.
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You should not use baking soda and vinegar together, as they neutralize each other. From reading other posts regarding deodorizing, I would suggest the baking soda in the wash cycle and the vinegar in the rinse. Perhaps if you had used them separately, you would have only had to wash the clothes once.
UM.... did you not pay attention in 5th grade science. Mixing baking soda and vinegar causes a reaction.
I know, why is it that people don't get that? Baking soda and vinegar foam up and neutralize each other, acid and alkaline. You get sodium acetate and carbon dioxide.
yes, but the FIZZZZZ must have some magic effect just because it LOOKS like something is happening. Just stuff your clothes in a science project volcano, add baking soda and vinegar, and watch the smoke smell come fizzing out the top!!!
Don't just believe posts, read the science and the research, duh, for friggs sake. COMMON SENSE people, not old wives tales and urban myths.
Our home was set on fire by an arsonist about three weeks ago and we lost nearly everything. We decided to try to salvage clothing that was hanging in the closet, and while there was no fire damage to them, there is a heavy stench of smoke. What was recommended to us has worked very well. We were told to mix two cups of Scope mouthwash into each load by the Red Cross. I don't know why, I'm no scientist, and I'm sure each case is different, but the smoke smell is undetectable after one wash and dry cycle. We have been able to salvage the clothing at least. A moral victory for us knowing the arsonist didn't destroy everything we owned. It might work for anyone else on here with this type of question.
Garage and kitchen fire. Scope worked on our clothes also. 2 tries for some loads.
I needed this as my bedroom caught fire. Some clothes i saved but smoke smell is horrible
We just had a awful fire it's my grandson's blanket & stuff Batman toy
Please, people, read a little chemistry 101. If you mix vinegar with baking soda you are mixing a mild acid with a mild alkaline substance, they chemically neutralize each other, turning to carbon dioxide gas, water, and sodium acetate, which is good for tanning leather and vulcanizing rubber, but of no use in laundry and will leave residue. Use one or the other for their individual properties, do not combine them, and stop perpetrating old myths and misinformation.
Why in this day and age people continue to perpetrate long debunked myths is beyond me. You have a universe of credible info and research available online, yet people turn to these folksy sounding question and answer pages like it was the advice of their great grandma in person. A rudimentary knowledge of high school chemistry will tell you that by combining vinegar at the same time with baking soda will cause them to react chemically and neutralize each other. Unless what you're after is some kind of alka-seltzer fizzing effect, you are doing nothing to help clean anything. You get the end result of the fizzing, sodium acetate, which is good for tanning leather and vulcanizing rubber, nut does nothing but leave residue. Vinegar has certain properties of its own for cleaning, and baking soda has certain different properties of its own.
I have been told that unflavored vodka is effective for smoke removal from garments after a house fire. Would like a verification of this. Thank you.
I have formals so I don't want to use hot water. Any other suggestions?
Isnt this a recipe for the homemade volcanic experiment? Im reluctant to combine vinegar, baking soda and hot water in my washing machine.
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