My grandmother can't smell good and my grandad sleeps all day! Only gets up to move from bed to couch to sleep there till he wants to eat. Then she brings his food to him. He pees on himself constantly and lies about it bc he doesn't want to go to bathroom. He has bad kidneys so his urine smells STRONG and bc he won't go to bathroom. The peepads and diapers don't help. Everything she washes smells like urine and she will only wash something once and in hot water because she is stuck in her ways and knows EVERYTHING and she absolutely will not let anyone wash anything bc she KNOWS HOW TO DO IT BEST. What can I use to keep towels, my kids clothes, my work clothes, etc from smelling like strong urine?? I don't want to bathe then dry off with a towel that smells like pee!
Borax and Oxy Clean should work....
It works.
Hope this helps
-arm & hammer powder
-Cup of vinegar
-Twice the amount of laundry soap recommended
-Downy softener
-A laundry smell booster like downy (they are smell good beads you put IN the washer with the clothes
-and if I could get away with it, a small amount of bleach.
Then I would set it on regular wash but with an hour "soak" in the cycle.
Sometimes the pee would stink my washer up so I would follow up the next load of wash with something I needed a crap ton of bleach to wash. Like the dogs beds and blankets. That usually helped get rid of any pee odor.
Hope this helps!
Someone on the forum recommended an enzyme type product that helps. I know Moms LTC was able to get the smells out.
My dad had terrible smelling laundry when he came, I used baking soda with my detergent and then vinegar in the rinse, but some things took multiple washes to get rid of the build up.
Someone on here recommended using ammonia and said one wash.
You will have to do some tests to see what works best for your situation.
Could you get mom to soak stuff at least? Or let you do your own laundry?
What ever you end up doing, vinegar will help freshen everything, it kills the enzymes that cause the odor.