10mo ago

Weird smell? White vinegar erases that smell.

pet urine, whiskey, perfume, you can use white vinegar to get rid of most smells on most materials: carpets, furniture, clothes, without damaging the material.

vinegar is amazing at breaking down odors and then evaporating and not leaving a trace.

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Pet urine+whiskey+perfume sounds like a night to remember!!!!
I use vinegar for all cleaning in my house except pet urine. Vinegar will clean dog urine okay, especially in the laundry. But you GOTTA use an enzymatic cleaner for cat urine or take it out to bake in the sun for days.
- i used vinegar for cat urine for years without a problem, but I have heard that the enzymatic cleaners work well.
  
  On fabrics? I guess I should clarify I meant any fabrics or carpet. Vinegar does a good job as a last step because I always put it in the second wash (after the enzymatic cleaner) to get any smell that survived.
  I've tried vinegar on cat urine on carpet and it didn't dent the smell. Did get the cat spray on walls okay though.
And it's generally pretty cheap in bulk jugs. Good for laundry too.
- definitely, vinegar has so many uses.
  i'm trying to focus on one per post, if i listed all of the uses I think the post would sort of lose effectiveness.
Yes, it will replace it with vinegar smell. I use it for cleaning places with lyme and windows, and when I'm done the place smells like a pickle factory.
- White vinegar dries odorless; the acetic acid smell goes away after the vinegar dries.
  you'll deodorize whatever other smells there are, then when the white vinegar dries, you'll have no smell left.
  If you're cleaning and then leaving while the windows, scrubbed lyme or the scrubs you are using are still not completely dry, you'll smell the acetic acid of the white vinegar.
  If you go back after things are dry, you'll notice there's no lingering odor.
  
  Yep, my only point is while it's drying the smell is less agreeable than other perfumed cleaning products.
  
  But if it gets damp the gross vinegar smell comes back! Disgusting.
Instructions unclear, bathed myself in white vinegar and I still seem to smell weird.
- It's in another comment, just keep dousing yourself over and over ad infinitum.
  it should be fine or you might dissolve.
vinegar + baking soda.
- I like the fizzyness, but I never noticed an extra cleaning oomph whenever I combined baking soda with the vinegar versus vinegar by itself.
  do you notice a big difference after you add baking soda?
  
  it's fantastic for removing camp smoke and mildew.
Vinegar is great when washing pet laundry like blankets and bed covers.

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