Little boys provide unique challenges to mothers who wash
their sons’ clothes and linens. Boys seem to have a special scent they leave on
the clothing. Oh wait! A certain reek. So the challenge is to purge the smell
of boys while laundering.
I have experimented with making my own laundry soap and
different brands to find what works best to remove the smell of three little
boys. I have found a way to make their clothes and linens smell clean! What’s
my secret? I use warm water, baking soda-based laundry
detergent, and borax. The sodium carbonate and borax make it smell clean. I'm trying out vinegar in the rinse cycle now. I
almost forget that my boys wore the clothes.
Sodium carbonate is super washing soda, and pool soda ash.
Sodium bicarbonate is baking soda, which is edible, unlike sodium carbonate.
