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[SunValley]

I ordered a pair of D&C jeans that had an odor I could not get rid off. I'm sure it was the dye. I finally gave them away.

[Annabellethecat66]

I haven't read other posts but I can tell you it's impossible.

I've done everything you can think of to get it out.

It's actually formaldehyde.  It's used in a lot of things.

You'll think you got it out and then when the garment gets soaked it will come back (smell) some.

I just received 2 or 3 pair of jeans and the smell was so bad I didn't even open the package.  I don't even know how many were in the package.

I put them (plastic and all) back into a big box with some other terrible smelling things from QVC and I'm mailing the entire thing back to them.

I've tried over and over in the past year to get that smell out.

I have friends who used to work in fabric stores.  Way back maybe 2 or 3 years ago they used to tell me how they'd feel dizzy being around the material after awhile.

That was when it wasn't as strong as it is these days.

I'm convinced that's one of the MANY reasons people are coming down with cancer.

It absolutely cannot be good to wear and inhale that terrible smell.

I had a mattress I bought from QVC before I bought the sleep number bed.  

I have a terrible habit of falling asleep with bottled water in the bed.  The water turned over in the night and soaked the bed.

No matter what I did I could not get that smell out of the mattress.  Evidently, the soaking of the mattress caused the smell to come back up in the mattress.

Sometimes we/you/I/us (everyone) can smell it and sometimes we can't but it's almost always there.

[Annabellethecat66]

I was on here recently and said I'd looked into charcoal to absorb the smell.

Someone came on and said it didn't do any good.  Not even charcoal (which will absorb many things) will not get rid of the smell.

[Spacrazy]

I wouldn’t mess with them just send them back. 

Some of these odors smell like chemicals and without knowing what they’ve been through (and where) it’s not worth the potential for risk.

[Annabellethecat66]

I forgot to tell you about the jacket I'd bought maybe 3 or 4 months ago (still under the time to send it back).

I'd piled a bunch of clothes over the package (the jacket).  It was still in the closed wrapper.

I went looking in the pile of clothes and as I pealed away the clothes, the smell it me.

Just from where the package was in the pile it contaminated the clothes around it!  And the thing was sealed!

I threw the entire package back into the box with the other clothes.

I don't know if it's on clothes you buy in stores because I don't shop in stores anymore.

My friend has said she's noticed it on some clothes she's bought from Kohls.  I have no idea.

[Kachina624]

@Annabellethecat66.  If you'd read the posts, you might learn something.  It is NOT impossible to remove the odor.  I've done it numerous times and describe how in post #7.  What's the point in coming here if you don't  want or aren't willing to read what others have written?

[Annabellethecat66]

@Kachina624  I do scan over them.  Most of the one's I saw said just send them back.

Look!  You have no idea how many clothes and stuff I order from QVC.

I've tried over and over to get that terrible smell out.  When I think it's gone....I can start to smell it.

As far as reading every post.  Maybe you do, but I doubt most people do.

Oh!  If life was like typing on a computer....delete...delete.

I've spent way too much time trying to get the smell out.  It's not worth it for me to try to deal with it anymore.

Just because something works for one person doesn't mean it's going to work for everyone.  I've just dealt with it for the last time.

[Kachina624]

@Annabellethecat66.  I learn so much from reading potentially useful threads about ways of doing things, helpful hints,  and of new products I've never tried. I'd hate to have missed out on all that information over the years.  Yes, I pretty much read all of most of the threads I find of interest.  I either completely pass on a thread or read it in its entirety. 

I doubt you order any more clothing than I.   I've had to treat perhaps half a dozen garments, all blue denim pants.  I successfully treated all and they have zero odor today and are frequently worn.  The smell is not that of formaldehyde,  an odor I know from lab work I've done.

[AmericanBulldogMom]

Add Odo-Ban to the wash. Gets rid of any odors. Swear by that stuff for the last 20+ yrs. Use it for cleaning almost everything. 

[homedecor1]

@too cute 

Those jeans would go right back after calling CS and getting another pair at the same terms as the original purchase.

I bought a jacket from Q about a year ago -- wierd odor. Washed it several times I thought it was ok until my GD said "eeeewwww your jacket smells weird"...right out of the mouth of a 6 year old -- never wore jacket again☹️