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Do Your High Performance Fabrics Reek With B.O.?

Posted on Jan 20th 2009 5:00PM by Bev Sklar

Filed Under: Reviews & Products

I own a laundry load's worth of wicking, high performance fabric shirts, shorts and baselayers, but supposedly the high-tech fibers can retain musty body odor, even after laundering. Honestly, I've never noticed a nasty odor to my newly-laundered performance fabrics, but I have noticed my pits seem to get B.O. faster in these shirts.

According to some fan testimonials of WIN High Performance Sport Detergent, I have it pretty good. Many claim their laundered wicking gear smelled icky the moment they slipped into it, until they started using WIN. FitSugar has mixed reviews, but WIN made one of the 10 Things We Love over at Men's Fitness. Per WIN's website, the detergent's super oxygenated formula lifts embedded B.O. right out of high-tech fibers better than standard laundry detergents. It works at all water temps, whether handwashing or in a high efficiency machine.

This is just speculation, but I wonder if the high-performance fabric mustys plague some worse than others. If so, WIN might be a winner or a waste depending on your unique stench. I've never tried WIN, but I'm getting a bottle to test shortly, and will report back soon on whether or not my pits stay B.O.-free longer. Do you have the high-performance fabric mustys? Let us know in the poll, and don't miss Maggie's other possible detergent solutions in the gallery below.

Are Your High Performance Fabrics Stinkier?
Yes	33 (78.6%)
No	9 (21.4%)

Removing sports stink from the laundry(click thumbnails to view gallery)

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CC 1-21-2009 @ 11:08AM

I thought it was just my pits! Oh I am so glad to hear you are having this problem too. I have never considered myself a sweaty BO kinda girl, but since I started running in a high-performance shirt I have noticed this MUSTY and NASTY smell, but just from the pits. EWWWWW... Its like they make these fabrics stink more, so you think you did something....???

ryan 1-21-2009 @ 11:43AM

How much does it cost? Scent Away, a detergent for hunters, will eliminate the funk. My cotton t's get worse than my wicking ones.....

Bev Sklar 1-21-2009 @ 2:02PM

Ryan,

Over at www.sweatlifter.com, 84 ozs/56 loads costs $21.99.

Bev

c-ausmus 1-21-2009 @ 1:00PM

I don't have the mustys in my tech fabrics, but I do use sport wash on all my tech clothes. It isn't just their ability to remove odors, it's the lack of other ingredients you get in a lot of other detergents, like perfumes and softeners. These have the tendency to clog the pores of the fabrics and cut down on the fabrics ability to perform the way they were engineered.