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What do you use for scent free detergent?

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Atsko Sport Wash. This stuff is awesome,and I have tried many.It rinses residue free and restores the loft to garments such as down or fleece.I have also used All free and clear and baking soda mixed together in the past with very good results,but I am sold on the Sport Wash.Atsko has a very informative website.

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Does the All not have U-V brighteners, I routinely use the baking soda especially to rinse out /wash the base layers

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Xtreme-Scents
all new Silver XP Detergent will blow your mind it is truly awesome. Detergents for hunters have really lacked what we need this stuff has it all.

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Atsko is great stuff and pretty inexpensive, I also use Arm and Hammer scent free.

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baking soda usually and then in a scent lok bag w/ earth wafers.

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Don't store your scent lock stuff with any scented wafers, the carbon will adsorb the scent until it no longer will work and back into the dryer it goes

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Unless a detergent specifically states that it does NOT have uv brighteners, assume that it does.

I use Atsko sportwash too. No UV brighteners, no perfumes, just clean and scent free clothes.

And it's pretty cheap too! You might look at the bottle and think, " 4 bucks for that?" But you only need a little capful to do a whole load! You'll do more loads with that little bottle than your wife will with a gallon jug of stinky old All !

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I use actual earth when storing mine. Some princess pines, some dirt from the woods, a handfull of acorns...;)

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Dead Down Wind

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So I have a question. If you've used UV brighteners and want to reverse the effect, how does the UV killer stuff work? Does it work permanently after the first application, or do you have to keep reapplying it?

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I use baking soda

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UV brighteners are essentially "gunk" that coat the fibers of your garment.
UV Killer coats the "gunk"

If you wash your clothes in UV brightening stuff again, you're back to square one with even more gunk.

Check out this link:
http://home.adelphia.net/~geffert/deervis.htm

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Okay, but my question is really, if I use the UV Killer, then proceed to wash everything in baking soda from there out, do I need to reapply the UV killer each time. Or will the UV gunk go away after the first application.

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I believe that Atsko makes another product that will do that. FWIW, I also use their guaranteed waterproofing product.

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Your scent lok garment will adsorb all odors including natural ones. I've been told not to even let it hang outdoors. The carbon will pick up these odors. BTW activate charcoal like for aquariums is great to store with your boots!

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baking soda then I put in garbage bag with different scents etc....

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Same here .

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I also am using Sport wash, good stuff. I have been hunting and killing elk, mule deer and sheep in CO for years and could never see why scent lok cloths could do better than what I am doing now. I have killed elk at less than ten yards more than a few times, but I am not in a tree stand. After looking at scent lok clothing, the only advantage I can see is I will sweat more than I do now. So I stick with the cotton and polar fleece I am using now. The process I use is very simple. Wash cloths[cotton and polar fleece]in Sports Wash and bag in a scent safe bag with HS earth waffers and go hunt.
Gselkhunter

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I think the concerns about uv and the need for using scent blocking products are overblown. I personally think care in how you approach a stand and how you set up relative to wind direction is far far more important. Much more interesting from a hunting persepective too, imo. I used to be pretty fanatic about those things, used cover up products andeven peed in a bottle. Now I just wash my clothes with the rest of the laundry and let er fly whenever nature calls. I once had a pretty good size buck come in right after I did it. I think he heard the pattering sound on the leaves and came to investigate. Go figure. Anyway, if it makes you feel better using and worying about all this stuff I say go for it but if you find it to be too much trouble I wouldn't worry about it either. I've hunted both ways and for a lot of years and frankly I just don't see that it makesa noticeabledifference. Killed some pretty nice bucks both ways and seem to see them just as often too.

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Sport Wash is all I've ever used.

Its great.

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Yes I do. I just started last season. I dont know how much it does but if it gets rid of some scent then great. I only hunted 1 full day last season:(:(but I did shoot one.

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Ditto. It's the least expensive, and IMHO, the best out there. No UV brighteners, destroys scent, and restores factory waterproofing. Good stuff.

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I use baking soda and strore them in plastic trash sacks.