The other day I wrote a post and briefly mentioned using baking soda in the laundry to eliminate odors.  Well today I want to talk about that further.

I have three sons and the oldest 2 are aged 14 and 12, so they are right at that sweaty, smelly boy stage.  We live in a warm climate so they often come home from school stinking of sweat.

Their school uniforms, more so than normal T-shirts, tend to really smell when they get sweaty and I was finding it really difficult to wash out the smell.  Regardless of the washing powder I used or whether I washed in hot or cold water, I could always still smell that sweaty smell on their school shirts after they had been washed.

So I thought I’d give the baking soda a go.  I put the washing powder into the machine as normal and then I just sprinkled a spoonful of baking soda over the clothes.  Turned on the washing machine and when they were done I couldn’t believe that the boys shirts did not smell!

The baking soda in the washing machine really does work to remove smells from clothes that normal washing just doesn’t remove.  My kids now go to school smelling great and if they come home smelling a bit sweaty, that’s ok because I just wash their shirts again with a spoonful of baking soda!