Remove body odour from 2nd hand clothes

[littlese]

I just bought a dress that reeks of BO. I've washed it 4-5 times but the arm pits are really smelly
I've also tried spraying febreze but I can still smell it!

Any other tips? I don't really want to wear this dress anymore but don't think I can resell it if it still stinks!!!

This might help
www.dr-beckmann.co.uk/products/stain-devils-antiperspirant-and-sweat-marks/

I'm sure there would be dome vinegar based recipe for perspiration smells on fabric but I wouldn't know the recipe.

Apparently professional costumers spray vodka on vintage clothes for this.

Oh brilliant, I will give it a try! Thank you!

Vodka eh.. might have to go buy a bottle or two

Oh, and I've put smelly sports garments in the freezer before. It didn't work forever, but it worked. You have to kill the bacteria.

I spray neat white vinegar on the clothes (saturate the area) and leave for an hour or overnight and then wash with bio washing powder and an antibacterial rinse or I’ve found halo sportswash is brilliant.

I use neat white vinegar . If its ever good weather again, line dry it outside.

I've also heard the neat (unflavoured) vodka tip

I buy and sell a lot of vintage clothes and I spray everything with white vinegar and leave overnight, before putting in the wash the next day. It gets rid of all smells, even that 'vintage' smell you get. I've never found anything more effective so don't waste good vodka!

If you can, hot wash it on 90°. If that's not possible, do as PPs have suggested with white vinegar. Also make sure you're using a biological washing powder, non bio is useless on sweat.

Hot iron the armpits (use an anti scorch cloth and iron inside) usually kills the bacteria my dd has some honking pits she says I'm the only one that gets them really clean im just the only one who irons!

Try soaking in Dettol laundry for a few hours/overnight. Works on my smelly gym kit

Thank you all, will try the white vinegar truck! Unfortunately we haven't got bio washing powder as both our kids have eczema so we use non bio for everything!

Use a sports wash or dettol laundry in wash.. should get all the smell out. Sports wash liquid sold in tesco