How to Remove Sour Milk Smell From Baby Clothes

Baby clothes can be expensive and the kids grow out of them before they can possibly wear them out. Often these adorable little outfits are passed on to another child. However, even though they are in good shape, they still have that telltale odor of spoiled milk that is almost impossible to get rid of. Don't pass on the smell with your baby's clothes.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Washing machine
• Laundry detergent
• Automatic dishwasher detergent
• Vinegar

1. Fill the washing machine with hot water. Fill it at least high enough for a medium load. Add a cup of laundry detergent with one cup of automatic dish washing detergent. Yes, dish washing detergent.

2. Run the machine for a few minutes to mix the combination well. Turn the washing machine off.

3. Put the smelly baby clothes in the solution in the machine and leave them there. Let them soak overnight in the solution.

4. In the morning turn the washing machine on and let the clothes run through a full cycle. Add a tablespoon of vinegar to the rinse cycle.

5. Add a second rinse cycle to make certain that all of the detergent residue gets rinsed out of the clothes.

6. Admire your work. Not only will the clothes be beautiful and look as good as new, they will smell like it as well.

Tips & Warnings

• It is safe to mix dishwater detergent and laundry detergent together. They are a great stain remover.

[lionors]

on 8/7/2009 This does remove the sour milk smell, but there are a couple of things which should be added to the tips and warnings.

One, it would help moms who don't get to sleep much yet if 'overnight' was a certain number of hours. I took a guess and let it go for four (which is what I got to sleep) and it worked fine.

Two (and most important, IMO), only wash very similar colors together, even if the garments have been previously washed and appear to be colorfast. I tried this out on several colorful bibs and some burp cloths. Although I'd washed the bibs many times and they'd even been through a vinegar rinse before, one of them leaked color all over my burp cloths. Fortunately, my burp cloths are just a pack of cheap white cotton cloth diapers I picked up, so I was able to run them through a hot water/bleach cycle and hang them outside, and they came clean. However, if these were baby ...