Laundry help!

[Kyse23]

I have to use a medication which causes me to have severe night sweats, and my pj tops are smelling fusty around the back and back of my neck
Don't want to bin them! I have tried the dettol laundry stuff which isn't doing much and I use bio laundry powder
Searched for halo sports wash and it's discontinued... any ideas?

Washing has to be dried indoors but it's hung up and well aired, it's just my pjs tops that are affected

I use a white wine vinegar spray directly on the armpits of DS’ sports clothes and use biological powder AND dettol laundry wash and that mostly, but not always, does the trick. Sometimes I sniff it and wash it again with the next load.

Soak them in a bowl for a couple of hours with bio powder and then a hot wash of at least 60. Then get them in the sunshine, so by an open south facing window if you really can’t dry outside.
use actual washing powder not liquid or capsules

I've got a big thing of white vinegar I use for cleaning so I could try that
Just shoved it all back in the wash on a hotter longer wash sorry planet with Ariel powder and some unstoppables

Surely you don't mean white wine vinegar....you just mean white vinegar?

Thanks. I use powder as it's cheaper and heard it was better for the machine
Can't dry outdoors or hanging in the windows unfortunately but I'll try and move the airer to get the sun a bit. I've got a heated airer so nothing is going musty from drying, it's definitely smelling straight out the wash

Basin with white vinegar in it - I just chuck in about half a bottle in a standard washing up bowl, top it up with water, then put anything with sweat fusty smelly badness in overnight. Then just wash as usual with the next load.

Oh! Yes, just white vinegar. Another thing I noticed was that heat drying could reactivate
the bacteria so you may be better hanging them on hangars off your shower rail
with the window open to get a breeze in instead of using the heated airer.

Try a hotter wash

I've only ever seen halo sports wash in sainsbury's. DR Beckmann does a remover spray for smelly armpit stains which I have bought from amazon. I'm currently trying a spray that's for sweat and urine stains that contains enzymes and it seems to be working OK on smelly sports kit.

https://www.stressnomore.co.uk/professional-strength-blood-sweat-tears-stain-remover-and-odour-destroyer-13813.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqsHDp9v0_gIVj-3tCh3saQGeEAQYByABEgKwdPD_BwE

You can get halo on amazon.

I have a mate that does a lot of sport and had a problem with not getting sweaty smells out , he uses the spay you can get to clean carpets etc where pets have pee'd that breaks down enzymes
I think this is the one he uses ( obs do a spot test 1st ! )
https://www.tmchemicals.co.uk/bio-k20-x28pet-urine-cleaner-concentratex29-122-p.asp

It's mega expensive now it's discontinued I might fork out though if nothing else works

I sweat when I exercise but it's not the same kind of sweat if that makes sense and never have any issues with gym stuff

Oh I have some pet enzyme cleaner spray somewhere! That's worth a go
I'm hoping the hot wash works, I've put it on 50 (usually wash at 40)

I dont think halo sports wash has been discontinued. Have you looked in sainsbury's?

This is a link from their active twitter page

https://www.soapboxtrading.co.uk/

Showing out of stock
Amazon have it but it's £10

The link has a 3 pack for £19
Have you looked instore in sainsburys?

Yep, they said it was discontinued
Wilko didn't have it either or their own brand

Sorry just seen the link, that looks a better price!

Halo will work if you can find it.

The link to the company website that was posted above https://www.soapboxtrading.co.uk/ is showing in stock for me just now. It goes into a basket OK. Perhaps retry.

My local huge Sainsburys still stock it (£4.50 for a 1 litre bottle) ...although it's like gold dust, only a small quantity arrives and then disappears quickly. My husband knows to always be on the look out for it and he gets far more brownie points coming home with a Halo sports wash than a bunch of flowers!

I think it's quite a small company and they can have distribution issues.

Plan B would be to soak the offending parts with white vinegar - perhaps overnight and then throw into the hottest wash with your usual detergent (I use Fairy Non-Bio) which the material will allow. Don't go hotter than it can take though!

I buy a 5l bottle of white vinegar off amazon. It comes in handy as a fabric softener substitute and general cleaning.

Before I discovered Halo, I'd soak any smelly armpits etc with vinegar like this and it always worked. Halo just makes the whole job easier.

Re your local branch of Sainsburys saying it's discontinued. It can't be. My husband brought home a bottle yesterday. But we do use a Sainsburys Superstore. Do you have a Superstore near you? Ask them? It'll be cheaper than off the main company website link. But at least you have that link now.

Material is the same as I have the same pjs in different patterns! They're 75% cotton so not sure how hot I can go with them?
Oh some are 95% cotton actually and the rest is Elastane

What temp do you normally wash in? I'd be tempted to try 60 degrees and see if that helps

I use white malt vinegar as that’s cheap and cheerful and it’s amazing. Huge slosh in some water, leave offending items (DH’s tops) to soak then wash as normal.

Do you soak in the Dettol? DD's stuff needs an hour or two soak in two capfulls to a washing up bowl of warm water, and then into the washing machine with as much of the soaking water as possible and another capful in the wash drawer.

Add some napisan to the wash