Washing period pants

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Help. Some of my daughter period pants never seem to come clean and just smell. I rinse multiple times in cold water, then soak with either detergent or bicarb. I don't wash with softener and don't tumble dry them.

What do others do?

Are some brands better than others?

She prefers the M&S ones but we have modibody as well. Wasn't keen on the Next or Sainsbury's ones.

Zoflora?

I don’t do anything special. They go in the wash with the rest of the washing, 30 or 40C, non-bio, no softener, then hang them outside to dry.

I rinse them fairly enthusiastically at the time, then shove them into a wet laundry bag. As a rule, I just then wash them with the regular washing (darks) on 40 degrees.

I used to obsessively rinse them, then hand wash them and leave to ry etc, but like yours, they never really got clean. I find this way, the blood doesn't get a chance to dry as the wet panties are in the wet wash bag, and then they get washed quite soon - I try not to leave them in the bag for more than 24 hours.

I have a mix of modibodi & Next.
The only ones that had instructions were the Modibodi's.

So I cold wash with ariel only on a hour long wash.

If they're smelling you need to strip wash them. Google will give you the guise on how to do it.

I soak them in a cold wash with bio powder and then a normal 30 wash. Trying not to think of the cost to the environment of double washing🙄But they do smell fine. And DD much prefers them to pads etc and they don't leak overnight.

@Tooffless what is a strip wash please?

I rinse and then wash and dry with other dark clothes - some (modi body) are years and years old and are fine. I think you are handwashing them? stick them in with the rest of the washing.

I put mine on the rinse cycle then wash straight away on 40 degrees. It is harder this time of year as you can’t tumble dry them and it rains a lot!

I chuck them in a (short) wash on their own and then do them again with the dark towels with detergent and Dettol anti bac - same as I was everything and I never used softener. I've never had an issue with them not being clean though even when I used to hand rinse then wash.

Drying can be a pain though so on the airer or laid over a radiator and that radiator turned on full so they don't smell damp as they can take ages to dry.

Unheated fast wash to rinse then a standard wash and dry on the radiator or heated airer

I keep them in a bucket of water with some antibac/antifungal laundry rinse in the water, until I have four or so pairs. Then I wash them all together in the machine on a quickish cycle (45 mins ) then also put them through with the next proper load of washing on a full cycle. Cold water or 20'C. With another splash of laundry rinse in the softener tray. I used to have issues getting them properly clean like you OP but this system works great

Rinse by hand initially- just water

put in a lidded bucket with some napisan and soak for a few hours or overnight if I have a lot of them.

wash on the short cycle 30 mins on their own at 40 with non bio powder

Then wash on a long 40 cycle with non bio, no softener and do an extra rinse at the end .

Modi body and M and S the above is time consuming, but they do come out clean and fresh without odour or smells.

Thanks all, I'll look into strip washing. Throwing them in with the normal wash just makes everything else smell, so I machine wash them on their own. I probably do a mix of what others do, glad I'm not missing something. I've ordered a lidded bucket and will try to get them soaking asap, not easy with a pre-teen who doesn't seem to quite understand.

It seems like most people also have the same brands so that's reassuring.