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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 350010" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>To deal with smells, use white vinegar. Also use carb soda. You can sprinkle carb soda inside shoes and inside socks. Also instead of using talc, use cornstarch.</p><p></p><p>The vinegar - when he puts his clothes in the laundry or before you put them in the washing machine, spray/splash them with white vinegar. We keep a cheap mist spray bottle of vinegar in the laundry just for this. </p><p>Next - NEVER hot wash, it cooks the smells in.</p><p></p><p>If the clothes are really bad, splash with vinegar, then put them in WARM water with an enzyme soaker or similar pre-wash soak. Read the labels, choose one that deals with perspiration smells and stains. Ones that deal with bloodstains are good. always treat sweat smells and stains as you would treat bloodstains.</p><p></p><p>Next rule - never put clean clothes on a dirty body, or dirty clothes on a clean body. The smell will transfer and the wash will be wasted.</p><p></p><p>Boys smell, especially as they reach their teens. It's a pheromone thing. But we no longer live up trees or in caves and need to stink out the place to attract a mate, so we need to deodorise. So get him to use an antiperspirant, preferably one with a very high level of active ingredient. A lot of deodorants these days are aluminium-free but frankly, I don't think there's a valid reason for this. So we go for the 25% (or greater) aluminium chlorhyddrate deodorants.</p><p></p><p>What kind to use - if you're environmentally conscious, get a pump pack. If he hasn't got any underarm hair yet, then a roll-on will do. But I find the males in our house hate the roll-ons when they have underarm hair, the hairs get snagged in the ball.</p><p></p><p>Some of the smells of a teen (or pre-teen) boy are simply not their fault. So don't make him feel bad about being smelly. Instead, make him feel great about smellnig clean.</p><p></p><p>And being clean won't wash away all the pheromone. It washes away the stale pheromone (which is what smells bad) but leaves behind a heavy dose of sexy pheromone, which the girls love.</p><p></p><p>See if that sells cleanliness! If he doesn't want to smell sexy, get him some splash-on after-shave to put on, even if he's too young to shave. Something cheap and mostly alcohol-based, fairly neutral and non-girly. We found pine-based scents good, so are lemon or lavender (believe it or not). You could make your own for him by using your nose too, choosing essential oils of lavender (not too much), eucalyptus (not too much), lemon and a little bit of pine, add some deodorised ethanol (or vodka) and also some water (not too much) and see how a little of that goes after a shower. It neutralises even the pheromones, at least for a few hours.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 350010, member: 1991"] To deal with smells, use white vinegar. Also use carb soda. You can sprinkle carb soda inside shoes and inside socks. Also instead of using talc, use cornstarch. The vinegar - when he puts his clothes in the laundry or before you put them in the washing machine, spray/splash them with white vinegar. We keep a cheap mist spray bottle of vinegar in the laundry just for this. Next - NEVER hot wash, it cooks the smells in. If the clothes are really bad, splash with vinegar, then put them in WARM water with an enzyme soaker or similar pre-wash soak. Read the labels, choose one that deals with perspiration smells and stains. Ones that deal with bloodstains are good. always treat sweat smells and stains as you would treat bloodstains. Next rule - never put clean clothes on a dirty body, or dirty clothes on a clean body. The smell will transfer and the wash will be wasted. Boys smell, especially as they reach their teens. It's a pheromone thing. But we no longer live up trees or in caves and need to stink out the place to attract a mate, so we need to deodorise. So get him to use an antiperspirant, preferably one with a very high level of active ingredient. A lot of deodorants these days are aluminium-free but frankly, I don't think there's a valid reason for this. So we go for the 25% (or greater) aluminium chlorhyddrate deodorants. What kind to use - if you're environmentally conscious, get a pump pack. If he hasn't got any underarm hair yet, then a roll-on will do. But I find the males in our house hate the roll-ons when they have underarm hair, the hairs get snagged in the ball. Some of the smells of a teen (or pre-teen) boy are simply not their fault. So don't make him feel bad about being smelly. Instead, make him feel great about smellnig clean. And being clean won't wash away all the pheromone. It washes away the stale pheromone (which is what smells bad) but leaves behind a heavy dose of sexy pheromone, which the girls love. See if that sells cleanliness! If he doesn't want to smell sexy, get him some splash-on after-shave to put on, even if he's too young to shave. Something cheap and mostly alcohol-based, fairly neutral and non-girly. We found pine-based scents good, so are lemon or lavender (believe it or not). You could make your own for him by using your nose too, choosing essential oils of lavender (not too much), eucalyptus (not too much), lemon and a little bit of pine, add some deodorised ethanol (or vodka) and also some water (not too much) and see how a little of that goes after a shower. It neutralises even the pheromones, at least for a few hours. Marg [/QUOTE]
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