How much fabric softener is unreasonable?

[FamilyofTrees]

I bought something off vinted and it literally smells like it's been soaked in fabric softener. It smells lovely, but so intense! It's a baby carrier so not something I'm planning on washing again because it's clearly clean and they're a pain to wash.

I use fabric softener as per the instructions and generally find I can't even smell it on my laundry (which I don't mind tbh. No smell is clean to me.)

Do you think I'm using it wrong and you should be able to smell the softener, or did the vinted seller use way too much?

Can't bear the smell of fabric softener.

I don’t use it at all. Makes me itch.

I find I can smell it far more when it's a different scent to what I normally use. I think you get use to a smell and a new scent smells much stronger.

I always notice a stronger smell when I switch scents.

I don't use it.. Horrible stuff.

Don't use it, smells too strong and it can't be good for you. More chemicals

I wonder if they used those scent boosters? They really are intense and last ages, I use half a cap of conditioner, and it isn't really long lasting, if you want to get rid of the smell try washing it again a add white vinegar in the machine.

The reason you can’t smell your own as strongly is because you’re used to it. New smells always smell stronger than smells you’re used to.
I don’t use fabric softener at all, never seen the point of it, but in your position I’d rewash if you don’t like the smell.

I also hate the smell of fabric conditioner

I don't use it, stuff like that gives me a headache.

It would depend on how much I liked the carrier how much of a pain it was to send it back, et cetera but if I decided to keep it it would've been straight in the washing machine for a couple of cycles and an extra rinse then pegged out on the line until it tried, then if it still smelt back through the whole cycle again.

However, I'm more likely to have sent it back.

On a slightly different note..... Why don't they make unscented fabric softener? Or do they? I am very sensitive to smells and usually try to find unscented laundry detergent, but I haven't seen unscented fabric softener.

I don’t use it as it’s not good for clothes.

Fabric softener definitely isn’t advised for baby carriers. If it smells strong to you imagine how strongly it smells to a teeny baby with their face near the fabric!

https://ergobaby.com/blog/post/how-to-wash-an-ergobaby-carrier#:~:text=Avoid%20bleach%20or%20fabric%20softeners,the%20fabric%20while%20it's%20damp.

Ecover and M&S both do fragrance free fabric softeners.

Loathe the smell and feel of fabric conditioner so 'none' is the correct amount to use, as far as I'm concerned.

I use fabric softener and DH doesn't. I can always tell what I wash by the texture rather than the smell, although my current softener from Lidl smells divine.

Fabric softener isn’t great for your clothes. All it does it coat them in chemicals. It doesn’t actually do much at all and I haven’t used it for years.

That being said, if I purchased something from Vinted I would 100% be washing it before use anyways. You never know what household it’s come from, how it was stored etc.

Never use the stuff. Waste of money and usually smells sickly sweet and unpleasant.

I wouldn’t use a baby carrier that stank of fabric conditioner. The smell alone would overwhelm a baby but I would also wonder what it’s masking.

We don’t use the stuff as we live in a soft water area.

We stayed in a holiday cottage in Northumberland a few years ago and the bedding had been drenched in fabric softener, it reeked. It was the first thing you smelled when you walked into any of the bedrooms and it got up my nose all night when I was asleep. Awful.

We don't use fabric conditioner at all and never have. We have soft water and don't use a tumble dryer. It's pointless stuff dreamt up by marketers which makes your textiles greasy and smelly and gunges up your machine. The fabcon companies want you to think that "reeks to high heaven of artificial flowers" = "clean".

And don't get me started on "scent balls".

If you don't want to wash it again , then hang it on the line outside .
Even better put it out in a light shower so it gets a natural rinse and dry outside.

Never use it. It's horrible and the smell is overpowering.

It sounds like the seller was trying to mask the smell of something else. I would be worried that they thought it smelt mouldy and we all know that mould/mildew can be dangerous to tiny babies. I would have to return it or bear the loss.

In Sweden there’s unscented fabric conditioner, which is the only kind I’ve ever bought. Not that I’m super-averse to perfume, but the ones in laundry stuff are always horrible. I’ve only used FC with synthetics, when I used to wear polyester dresses. Even when I used it I used like 1/8 of the recommended amount, just to get the static out - so that would be my tip to anyone, cut down drastically! The smells from FC are neither good nor do they smell clean, they smell waxy and make people and their sheets smell waxy and oily. Awful stuff.

Horrible fabric conditioner is the unspoken downside of buying things from Vinted - my god people really overdo it, do their own clothes smell like that too??

none at all
dont like it

I often think that those items you get from Vinted that stink so perfumed is where the person is a smoker and has tried to cover up the stink with one of those spray clothes freshener things. Some stuff I have had to bin after receiving it, but if it's not too bad then I give it a few washes and then the smell usually comes out after line drying it too. I agree though it is so disappointing when this happens.