Help! Must be a cheaper solution for BO in clothes?

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Please advise, or am I being unreasonable and should just replace the clothing of my poor teenage daughter!
13yr DD has good hygiene, showers daily, hair wash every couple of days. Always showers after exercise. Uses “proper” deodorant and perfume. She still struggles with BO. It sticks to her clothes after a day of being warm at school, or out with friends. Her school shirts, branded school jumpers, personalised dance uniform, all smell, even after washing. I have tried every product in the supermarket. Am I just going to have to let her smell or do I fork out again for new? AIBU to think there must be a better solution?

Can't comment on washing.

But the actual excessive sweating I have that. Buy her driclor from boots or u can get it online. Apply once a day not after shaving. After a week then use twice a week. Its life changing . Itches like mad for a while but persevere.

No more embarrassing sweat patched. Your poor dd

soak in vinegar before washing

I have really struggled myself with this and I think it is fungal. I have swapped to this Oregano oil soap and...as if by magic, it has gone away.

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Also using AKT deodorant now, but the oregano soap is what has made a difference.

I use this every time for my shirts, collars, cuffs, pits, cleans and removes stains. I soak overnight having made a paste which I apply to those areas. Be careful as I get some chemical burns on an old scar.

modern washing products do not clean in my opinion, they simply mask the smells with a lot of perfume, especially at low temperatures. Go for a more traditional product and wash as warm as possible

I was a smelly teenager . I had a mother who would always point it out but never took the time to tell me how to deal with it. Try to be delicate and include her .

So things that I found worked:

• Use Mitcham deodorant. Im not sure if it’s true that your body gets used to some deodorants but that seemed to happen to me. The roller balls are the best ones
• Double wash. Go in first with a flannel and soap. I use Dove or Aleppo soap (in a bag) as it’s gentle but any soap will do. Then rinse off and go in with a shower gel.
• Dry completely. You can get some nice talcs that are good for sweating.
• Try wearing a thin vest under to absorb smells. They are cheap and can be thrown.
• Dettol Laundry detergent is very good.
• I find once the smell has set in, it’s hard to remove. Something like Baking Soda might help followed by a hot wash .

I had this years ago. Used to get me down but what contributed to it was an (aluminium- I think) build up from anti-perspirant. It creates a film over the armpits & traps bacteria.

I use Bionsen deodorant (not anti-perspiration products) & Dettol laundry cleanser, wash at 40. It’s never come back.

Despite what detergent manufacturers say, 30° won't kill bacteria, and it's bacterial growth that causes smells. Most clothes will go in a 40° wash, which is much more efficient at killing bacteria. Always pre-treat the armpits of all clothing, (I just wet them and rub them with a bar of soap) and maybe try adding dettol laundry cleanser to the wash as per their instructions. Wherever possible, use cotton or cotton mix fabrics rather than pure synthetics.

Wash her clothes on a full length cycles at 40 degrees, or higher if they can take it. The current idea that everyone should be doing cool washes for short times is meaning that clothes are not properly clean and not properly fresh.

My DH had to do all the laundry for a while when I was away for a few weeks. He was washing his cotton work shirts on quick cycles at 30 degrees and they all ended up with grey discoloured patches in the armpits and never smelt properly clean. When I got back I stuck them all on a long boil wash and they came out perfectly clean and fresh.

Also she needs to use a proper bar of soap. Most shower gels are rubbish.
And an ANTI PERSPIRANT deodorant, NOT just a deodorant or body spray.

Hall sports wash. Wash at 40 degrees and detail in softner drawer. Soak pits of clothes in detox/detox before washing . Often it’s as simple as getting rid of a build up of smells on man made clothing

No point washing at 40° on a short cycle.
Use the synthetic or outdoor wash for everyday stuff.
Have an old Hotpoint and it's a beast.

All the stuff about washing at 30 degrees is rubbish - it needs to be 40 degrees at least. We do sheets and towels at 60.

The current marketing and advertising for these products is bonkers you get products advertised to clean at temperatures they simply don't clean at and then get marketed another product to deal with the fact the first one doesn't work properly, because you're using it as instructed. Then in addition extra stinking fabric conditioner to hide the fact your clean clothes aren't actually clean.

Mitchum deodorant. Also avoid garlic

Wash entire armpit area with an antibacterial bar soap such as Dettol, let dry and apply a tiny bit of body oil and then go in with baking soda. No more smell. Also soak clothes in a baking soda solution before washing. Stink gone! Worked well for my daughter and I.

i soak sons athletic stuff in the bath with soda crystals before I wash. Makes a huge difference!

It is not normal for her to be smelling that much. If she doesn’t shave her armpits, she should be doing that for starters. Take her to the GP, rule out medical causes. There could be a root cause which can be addressed.

For my teen son he wasn’t washing his arm pits properly. His version of showering was standing under it for 5 mins. He’s 21 this year and his clothes do still smell sometimes as he does a lot of sport and guess he sweats a lot. I often wash them twice.

Shield is a deodorising soap which is quite good.

Not sure how you thought stain remover would help with BO? You need white vinegar or to soak first with dettol then put in the washing machine

Absolutely. All this 'gets stains out even at 20 degrees' is not only bollocks but a sure way to make sure everyone is walking round in stale smelling, grey looking clothes and buying more and more products to add to the wash or spray on it afterwards, or whiten them or whatever, all to save the planet and a few pennies by reducing the temp and/or the time of the wash cycle. It's nuts. Just wash your stuff properly for goodness sake!

As someone above said, I'd also question whether she's actually washing properly when she's in the shower, or whether she's actually showering as often as she says she is.

One of mine hated the taste of toothpaste and faked cleaning their teeth properly for ages. I'd check the brush was wet but it took me a while to cotton on that they were toothpaste dodging. Adolescence and an interest in the opposite sex soon sorted that out, after a couple of people mentioned the less than minty fresh breath!

My partner had the same problem and I started using vinegar years ago. I have used for more than 10 years now and no problem with the washing machine either. Clothes does not small of vinegar, it evaporates and takes away the small. Elbow grease is making a cleaning vinegar now, sold at Tesco and Asda, very cheap too. It has some minty smell, just one cap with the detergent and one on the conditioner. And washing at 30. Clothes came back smelling fresh. Try it is a game changer!

I find drying clothes outside whenever possible helps. I don't use fabric conditioner and always set washing machine for extra rinse. Advised by dermatologist to do this due to perfume allergies. Avoid overloading with extra scented products when washing, trying to mask one smell with another doesn't help - you get a build up of chemicals all fighting each other.

I agree with this - usual wash here in min 40 degrees and towels bedding and occaionally cotton shirts go higher.

I also agree with the soda crystals white vinegar and bicarb and sunlight - it's anti bacterial and all works and use what we have in - though may need to pre-soak

However I ended up in position last year with none of this and stinky cotton t-shirts from a teen girl who wanted them but been through two full 40+ degree washes and still stank- had some febreze in house check it wouldn't altered colour and used than then washed thoughly as didn't want it next to skin- that also worked.

I also switched her anti-persperant and moved to soap bars.