Arthur I think you bring up a very good point with the natural ambient glow and I think I will do a little research with that and maybe conduct a little on my own. I do agree that the index will show where it my be more of a concern from one area to the next but I still think it is a concern in all; I live in an area of what might be considered lower U.V but I have had issues with it.

Early in--my mistake on the baking soda reference, I do agree it is a great cleaner (especially for hunting), hell I actually do most my house cleaning with borax, vinegar and hydrogen peroxide.

To all, thank you for not jumping on my opposition with witty attacks, I am only trying to get to the bottom of this as well and like to have constructive discussions. In will do a little checking on the glow of natural surrounding and let everyone know what I find out. You know, here again overseas manufacturing has given us a problem as years ago during some of the early generations of camo they did not add U.V brighteners and it was not an issue. I also thought I would drop a little note that my military buddies say that certain U.S military forces insist that their uniforms are U.V brightener free, I don't really know why but this subject was not new to them.

Hoyt Viper-- good post, and I think you are making the right move by treating your items; honestly in the grand scheme of things it is really cheap and once you do it if taken care of properly you don't have to "kill" the U.V again. The bottle I was looking at was only 10 bucks and does something like 10 garments.