Best way of cleaning smelly kit

A few of my riding tops are really starting to wiff and the usual 40c non bio wash isn’t getting rid of it.
Is there any specialists detergents that work well for this?

Milton?

Could be your washer is carp as well. Just come back off hols in France and my white mtb top kept coming out of the washer looking and smelling like it’d hardly been washed. At home in me Bosch, it’s washes fine at 40c.

use nappy san to kill bacteria present in sweat

Could be your washer is carp as well

probably come out smelling of fish then

Wash your kit in Napisan and soap flakes.

Dust off and nuke it from orbit

It’s the only way to be sure

+1 for napisan, usualy get asked “ohh, how old” “is it your first” etc when buying inn combination with wet wipes and industrial sized tubs of sudocrem!

Could be your washer is carp as well
probably come out smelling of fish then

Use bio detergent. This stuff about it harming skin or clothes or whatever is a myth.

Some Dettol works well for my gear.

Use bio detergent.

Why? It doesn’t get rid of the smelly from sweaty cycling kit.

Why? It doesn’t get rid of the smelly from sweaty cycling kit.

Bio detergent contains enzymes specifically for the purpose of removing sweat. If your clothes are still smelly, try a different brand, cos yours isn’t working properly.

Use bio detergent. This stuff about it harming skin or clothes or whatever is a myth.

Depends if you’re alergic to it or not.

And it’s still not antibacterial.

google ads is now advertising armpit sweatpads over there>>>>>

euughhh..

Bio detergent contains enzymes specifically for the purpose of removing sweat. If your clothes are still smelly, try a different brand, cos yours isn’t working properly.

I would imagine over the years I’ve used most of the brands on my cycling kit, over time the smell builds up. Uisng napisan and soap flakes gets rid of the smell, why would I change what works.

Bio detergent contains enzymes specifically for the purpose of removing sweat. If your clothes are still smelly, try a different brand, cos yours isn’t working properly.

Non-Bio detergents contain surfactants specifically for the purpose of removing sweat. If your clothes are still smelly, try a different brand, cos yours isn’t working properly.

Edit, using some Wikipedia knowlage it turns out that you can’t be alregic to bio washing powder. So either Wiki is wrong or my missus can gain a nocebo effect even when she doesn’t know I’ve used the wrong powder, she’d start itchng as soon as she used a towel that’d been washed in bio stuff.

See above.

Depends how often you use your kit I suppose, if you only use stuff once a week then it might not be an issue.

Edit, using some Wikipedia knowlage it turns out that you can’t be alregic to bio washing powder. So either Wiki is wrong or my missus can gain a nocebo effect even when she doesn’t know I’ve used the wrong powder, she’d start itchng as soon as she used a towel that’d been washed in bio stuff.

Or she’s allergic to the particular brand(s) of bio detergent that you’ve tried. It doesn’t mean that the allergy is because of the presence of enzymes.

On a wider point – you can’t buy non-bio in France. Do they suffer more skin allergies than us?

Non-Bio detergents contain surfactants specifically for the purpose of removing sweat. If your clothes are still smelly, try a different brand, cos yours isn’t working properly.

My clothes aren’t smelly. Probably because bio is more effective at cleaning than non-bio.

Maybe its just you that thinks that 😆

Anyway my normal clothes aren’t smelly, cycling kit is if not washed with napisan. And soap flakes give my stuff a nice fresh smell.

+1 for milton, just the regular stuff used for babies bottles and stuff.

Cap full in sink and soak tops for a bit. Just dry and wear then wash as normal after use. Have done this a couple of times in the last 6 months. No problems.

Anyway my normal clothes aren’t smelly, cycling kit is if not washed with napisan. And soap flakes give my stuff a nice fresh smell.

I use napisan on my baby’s nappies. As I don’t poo on my own clothes, I don’t need it. 😉

Aerial tablets with Febreeze

I use http://www.germwarfare.co.uk/index.php/halo/halo-proactive-sports-wash.html on all my kit and it works a treat.

As I don’t poo on my own clothes, I don’t need it.

Skid marks?

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Edit, using some Wikipedia knowlage it turns out that you can’t be alregic to bio washing powder

You can still have a skin reaction to a substance without being allergic to it….

Skid marks?

I’m pretty good at modulating my braking.

I use http://www.germwarfare.co.uk/index.php/halo/halo-proactive-sports-wash.html on all my kit and it works a treat

Following DM52’s recommendation above, I got the wee wifey to pick some of this up at tesco. I figured at £3.99 it was worth a punt to save my Gore softshell. This is a jacket that I’ve commuted in ~3 times a week in the cooler months for about 3 years now. I’ve tried bio, milton, nappisan, etc. But as soon as it gets wet, it smells big time.

So I soaked the jacket in some Halo overnight, followed by a machine wash in the machine with more Halo. Came out smelling fine (as it normally does). But after my first ride in the jacket, not hint of a smell. And it was still fine after my ride home. By this time the jacket normally reeks. Impressive stuff.

I s there any spray on antibacterial stuff that I can pre and post treat my armour and pads with that’ll help see me through a sweaty week in the alps?

Dunno, I leave it on the utility room floor and the wife sorts it out.

I’ve just started using halo sports wash from sainsburys after I found out that vanish hygiene is a big con. So far so good. Really liking it.

Vinegar works, soak it in a diluted solution for 10 mins before washing

I use the Assos Activewear Cleanser, not hugely expensive, lasts ages, smells nice.

+1 Halo Sports -really works well!

Halo sports wash kills the bacteria that causes the smell

Some of the posts have got it right – a 40 degree wash doesn’t really wipe out the bacteria and detergent powders don’t really work very well at that temperature.

The biggest problem is that odour molecules from degraded sweat, amines, mercaptans etc, are very readily absorbed by synthetic fibres like polyester and polypropylene, which is why you can never quite get the sweaty armpit smell out of a smelly Helly. Heat is the only way to dislodge the molecules.