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[Irishhunter]

Can you make homemade scent with bake soda and water only. Can someone give me idea on how to make homemade scent

Edited by Irishhunter, 12 January 2012 - 10:36 PM.

[dropzone]

I got this from another sight but I have made it in the past. It will leave a white residue on any thing you spray it on. When you mix a batch put it in a dark container and let it set for 3 days. The will build pressure so leave the top loose.  
1 Gal Distilled water
1 bottle proxide 20-28 oz
2 teaspoons Green soap
1 cup baking soda

[loneranger]

I've got a similar Recipe I have been using for yrs,,but it does NOT call for a CUP of Soda. That much soda Would leave a residue. cut down on the Soda. More like a 1/4 cup. This formula is basically what you pay a high price for when you buy any of the,," take scent away products",,. This works just the same. Save $$$$!

[loneranger]

My Recipe is 16 oz of water,distilled-or rain water. One bottle of Peroxide,one oz unscented soap,1/4 cu soda, I sometimes get a little residue, so I cut down on the soda just a little.

[Irishhunter]

thanks for info. what time of proxide do you use?

[briarpatch]

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[loneranger]

For anyone who wants to know I just use drugstore Peroxide. Seems to work. I test spray it on smelly stuff and smell goes away.

[Highlander]

Baking soda will asorb some odors but not all. It is not a very strong oxidizing agent to remove odors in clothes as sodium hydroxide is.

Sodium hydroxide is the main ingredient in many clothes detergents, but they add scents to it, which we don't want.

You can buy 100 percent sodium hydroxide, then dilute it down to the proper mixture, and wash your clothes in it or soak them in it. The sodium hydroxide is a very strong oxidizer which breaks down the organics that get on your clothes from respiration and such and eliminates these organics and odors they produce. The additional hydroxide left as residue can be flushed away using pure water and left to dry which works great.


Spraying mixtures on clothes only gets what it contacts and no other areas, so the odors and organics in the unsprayed areas are unaffected.

Edited by HighlandHunter, 22 January 2012 - 01:17 PM.

[edge]

Another name for Sodium hydroxide is lye... or drain cleaner!

It will try to eat your clothes as if it were a clog in your drain so you should be careful...IMO

edge.

[Highlander]

Yep, and sodium hydroxide carries the skull and crossbone label, so don't store it where the kids or pets can get to it. You can buy 100% sodium hydroxide cheaply online for those interested. Cheaper than draino.

[Highlander]

It is recommended that you mix the 100% sodium hydroxide down to a 3-6% solution for laundry. I wouldn't mix it much more concentrated or perhaps you can cause damages to the garmet washed.I would recommend food grade rather than industrial grade used on farms since there are less comtaminates in it. Contaminates are not listed when stated 100% when sold.

Edited by HighlandHunter, 18 January 2012 - 12:44 PM.

[edge]

Now that I'll buy

I thought that you were suggestion getting 100% to clean with and I think that you might not be able to wear them again...except as a shorts set  

edge.

[Highlander]

Nope you don't want to use liquid drain cleaners at full strength. They need to be diluted depending on the concentration. That I can easily calculate out if interested.

The powder form of drain cleaners are 100% sodium hydroxide in most cases. You would need to figure a proper dilution depending on the product used which I don't think anyone here wants to hear about what is involved to do this.  

Perhaps some others can recommend how they dilute say the powder form of Draino with 100% sodium hydroxide in it.


Personally I don't worry about odors and don't know the dilution rates for the solid drain cleaners. I still get my share of deer.

Edited by HighlandHunter, 18 January 2012 - 12:56 PM.

[Highlander]

Another easier option, would be to shop for a laudry detergent that only contains sodium hydroxide for the active ingredient and does not add any odor addtives. I'm sure they are out there.

[loneranger]

The formula I have, was used to deodorize houses and furniture after the Iowa Floods, so it does a good job. Works for skunk misshaps too.

[Corky]

Highland hunter...

Are you calculating dilutions by weight, volume, or % of active ingredient, NaOH, in the detergent? Seems calculations could be done using propotional algebra, correct???

Now I've got a headache... ;-)


Corky

Edited by Corky, 21 January 2012 - 11:07 PM.

[Highlander]

For the Liquids with a given percentage yep, no problem using proportions. For solids, many have a certain percentage of water within it which is not necessarily provided on the label, for example say 80% active ingredient & 20% water. If we know this, no problem a proportion works.  Provided the product sold does not have water weight, use a simple proportion, yep. Agricultural Lye can have water weight and other inert ingredients which can cause problems for a direct proportion if the percentage is not known. Also, agricultural lye, which is left open in high humidity will absorb CO2 easily, along with moisture since sodium hydroxide absorbs water quickly. So the bottom line is we need more information about the solid form of sodium hydroxide used. If you use pure 100% food grade sodium hydroxide in an airtight container, this elimates all problems. I don't know what the story is for sodium hydroxide drain cleaners, they could be only 80% sodium hydroxide (the rest water) and I don't know what chemical grade they are, but doubt they are food grade, which means more possible contaminates in it, that you may not want on your clothes.


Now you gave me your headache.

Edited by HighlandHunter, 22 January 2012 - 09:38 AM.

[Highlander]

FWIW, I found the MSDS Sheet for Drano Crystals:

http://www.google.co...OtHp39Rgd5PX5Jg

From it:

Sodium hydroxide content is 30 - 60% & Sodium nitrate 15.00 - 40.00%. The rest may be water, since it is not listed. So if you assume all the weight is sodium hydroxide your dilution will be way off.  


I don't know what the effect of sodium nitrate would be on clothing, it is a very strong oxidizer. You got to be careful when you take a chance with products like this, not meant for the use you are using it for.Personally I would not use this drain cleaner for our purposes.

Edited by HighlandHunter, 22 January 2012 - 01:30 AM.

[Highlander]

Wrong Information provided. Sorry.

Edited by HighlandHunter, 22 January 2012 - 10:47 AM.

[Highlander]

Ok, my information was not correct in my above post regarding mixing sodium hydroxide with sodium hypochlorite. Sorry for that.

I contacted a PH.D. chemist friend of mine and this is his statement regarding mixing the two:

"Nothing will happen, it will actually stabilize the hypochlorite.

DO NOT mix the hypochlorite with acid, this will cause to evolve toxic chlorine gas."