How do you get the smell of smoke out of clothing?
By asyria51
@asyria51 (2861)
United States
July 20, 2012 7:18pm CST
My brother got a job at a place near my house. We have extra room in my house, and he would help with paying utilities and instead of paying rent, he would be in charge of getting my daughter from her sitters to her preschool and back the three days a weeks she will be going.
My concern is that he was a smoker for a long time. He has recently quit, bought a new car because he could no longer stand the smell of his old one, but most of his clothes still smell like smoke. I would rather not have that smell in my house if I can avoid it.
It never really bothered him to smell like a smoker, but it bothers me. I told him I would do the work of making his clothes not smell, but I do not know how to.
Any tips, suggestions, ideas...would be really helpful.
5 responses
@jureathome (5361)
• Philippines
21 Jul 12
I really hate to smell like smoke, especially that I don't smoke. Here at home, its only my husband who smokes and he does it outside the house. When he comes back, I would ask him to change his shirt because the smell really annoys me. And, we have a baby in the house, so its dangerous for her health. Its not easy to get rid of the smell, it really sticks to your clothes, to your hair, to your hands. You have to wash, take a shower or spray on a lot of cologne.
@asyria51 (2861)
• United States
21 Jul 12
I too hate the smell of smoke, but am more concerned for my child having to smell it. He has been a non smoker for about 3 months now, but he was such a chain smoker that just washing his clothes has not been enough, especially the ones that have been boxed up.
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
21 Jul 12
If they'd be dry cleanable,that should work..if not,a regular wash/laundry cleaning should do the job.If he smoked a long time in his home before quitting,many of the household surfaces,the wardrobes and clothing storage areas could also probably do with a deep clean to remove any smoke residue from them..
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
21 Jul 12
Have you tried white vinegar in the wash? My husband recently came back from a week in the desert and his clothes were extremely smelly from the sweat and sitting ina a bag all week. When I did the load of wash, I put white vinegar in the bleach hole int eh washing machine and rand the load as usual. His clothes came out smelling better than I think they did before the came out of storage lol
@MischiefFilledMe (268)
• United States
21 Jul 12
In the theatre I volunteer with, the costumers use a 1/3 water, 2/3 vodka or gin mixture to get extreme body odor smells out of the costumes before we send them to the cleaners. (We're a little OCD about smelly things.) This might work. If not, wash them with some febreeze-infused laundry detergent (I think you can buy it at Wal-mart. I was just there the other day, so I SHOULD remember correctly.)
Hope this helps.
