Baking soda for scent control?
 

I have read a few post with people using baking soda for scent control,Which prompted me to think.I was just wondering how much do you use when washing camo? I am considering trying it because am fed up with buying"special detergents". Thank you in advance. Shawn

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i dont have an actual method of measuring. i just sprinkly it around the washer once or twice. probably enough to fill a liquid detergent cap?

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I wash my camo in plain water and hang them to dry. After a put them in a storage bin and sprinkle Baking Soda between each layer. I have had deer walk under my stand and never know I was there.

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I use the Baking Soda unscented deteregent,after it's all done I refill the washer on the soak setting put in a half a box (full load) and let it sit for about a half an hour and the spin cycle dry it on the line.

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10-4 partner!:)

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I dont dry my clothes on the line cause I dont like to way they feel. I use the dryer but also use the hunting dryer sheets.

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2 cups of baking soda per load and dry them on the line. I also use baking soda in the shower before the hunt if I am out of hunters soap. Baking soda in the shower is a little tricky though because you have to keep the box dry and it takes a little more time. Good luck everybody.

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1/2 of a box on the rinse cycle and then into the dryer with dry earth dryer sheets for me.

Bob

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1/2 box in the washer, then dry on the line.

I always make sure all the baking soda is rinsed completely because if there's any residue remaining,
it may pick up undesirable odors. That's what this product is designed to do.

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i got a buddy that swears by this
he takes aqua velva soap and cuts strips by his hunting spots year round, washed his cloths in it and bathes in it before he hunts and Gods my witness the man kills nice deer every year!!

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Does baking soda take away odor or does it just mask human odor?

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i put about3/4 cup in a washer full and dryer sheets in the dryer making sure my lent trap is clean. i also mix some up in a spray bottle to use on my blind and my clothes before the hunt. i had a idea that i haven't got around to trying this year, get those bags for traveling that you suck the air out with your vaccum cleaner with some baking soda in there too with maybe some cedar limbs... i think it would work i'm gonna try it when i store my cammo after this season.

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It helps MINIMIZE human odor, like all the others. Nothing eliminates it completely. You can use all the scent blocking clothes/sprays/etc. you like: bottom line, if you ignore the wind, your busted. Sure, you might get lucky, but the wind, and how you use it, IMHO, is most important factor in getting up close and personal.Don't get me wrong, scent control, along with all the other variables helps. The nose of a mature buck is the one sense that doesn't need another sense to verify danger!

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Baking soda issodium biccarbonate.
Sodium Bicarbonate maintains PH equilibrium therefore it does neutrilize acids and bases so it does eliminate odours.
In scientic theory it works..
However in all practically in the field, in order to do this, you
have to constantly do Ph and acidic test all the time in different changing environments etc.and add just enough sodium bicarbonate to totally eliminte it.
Its not a practicall hunting method..In fact you wouldn't hunting.
If your that worried about it, get a personall persperation test done to yourself cause we all perspire differently, and conjur up something using baking soda,hydrogen peroxide that best suits your ownscent elimination problem.
it can be done its not a hard thing to do and the calculations are easy enough.
but don't forget, this will help you eliminate your own perspire scent only, it won't elimate squat if your parntners wearing POLO cologne and happens to get on you or smoke etc.
I do my best to get it down to a min, I showerand brush my teeth with it, wash my clothing in it, but never ever wash the interiorior of my truck with it.
Maybe i should I don't.
I do take a spray bottle of it with me, And I'll spray down in the field, but thats when I've gotnatural deer elk moose scent glands on anyway and they do stink enough to get me withing shooting range of any ungulate I want to kill.

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I don't use in the wash or dryer, however I do keep a box in my hunting backpack to absorb odor's. For scent control, I use carbon suit's and activated carbon to absorb odor's for all my hunting gear. I swear by it, however I also follow a strict scent control routine and wind direction. I've had deer within 10' of me when ground hunting (no blind except natural terrian).

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Most commercially produced descenting products contain baking soda. Besides neutralizing the acids we excrete that promote odor causing bacteria the carbon component of the soda adsorbs odors and the L-Serine that gives us our uniquely human scent. I use a half box in the wash cycle, and the other half in the rinse for extra insurance. You can make a spray using a half box dissolved in a quart of warm non-chlorinated water to spritz on the garments after the come out of the washer to impart a temporary layer of soda to the fabric before drying to adsorb odors in the field, make sure it fully dissolves or it will clog the sprayer. While I can't provide scientific proof, I think the slightly salty smell of the soda appears to function as an attractant. JMO.