Pinesol in the laundry? Any tips.

[JVS]

It says test it first on colors. Anyone have problems with it and colors?

[sarge43]

1. What are you washing? Pinesol is fairly strong stuff.

And yes color test.

[JVS]

2. I washed laundry with stinking kitchen towels. It made everything smell bad.

I want to re-wash and sanitize.

[sarge43]

3. FWIW. I recommend Simple Green.

Pleasant scent, biodegradable (it started as a commercial coffee vat cleaner) and cleans anything and everything (I've cleaned ovens with it), but it's not harsh.

[GoCubsGo]

4. Try some 20 Mule Team Borax instead.

Or, washing soda (Arm & Hammer is the only brand of which I'm familiar.) You can find both in the grocery store by the laundry stain removers. Directions/amounts on the box. Just add with your usual laundry soap. Both are great for general household cleaning, as well, and are environmentally friendly. OxiClean would probably work, as well.

Quite frankly, I'd rather my clothes smelled of stinky kitchen odors than of Pinesol. Yuk!

[Catshrink]

5. Beware: washing soda is NOT baking soda.

Good advice on the washing soda, but washing soda and baking soda are two different chemicals. Washing soda is Sodium Carbonate Decahydrate. Baking Soda is Sodium Bicarbonate.

Here is a site for making your own detergents:

http://tipnut.com/homemade-laundry-detergent/

[hippywife]

6. Unless there is some instruction for using it

this way on the label, I wouldn't. And as others have said, it may just make your clothes smell of Pinesol. I second the rec to get laundry soda and then the real thing that will totally sanitize them...hang them outside in the sun.

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