While getting ready to wash my hunting clothes last week I made a discovery on one of the new energy efficient front loader washing machines.  It was something that could have ruined my efforts to make my camo scent free!

     We recently purchased a new washer and dryer that is of the front load variety.  I gathered all of my non-carbon based camo together last week to do my ritual scent free washing of the clothes.  When I put my Dead Down Wind laundry soap in the dispenser for the machine, that is when I noticed that these new machines have in the same dispenser a separate compartment for bleach and fabric softener.  I looked in there and noticed that there was a good amount of residue in them!  Yikes!  Fabric softener has perfumes in it!  The last thing I need is to smell pretty while sitting in my stand!  No comments from the peanut gallery!

     I removed the tray and took it to the sink to rinse it out which was pretty simple, but after rinsing it still smelled like fabric softener.  So I grabbed some of the new Dead Down Wind E-Live Downstream odor terminator and sprayed down the entire soap dispenser.  It killed most of the smell but not all, so I gave it another shot and then a third just to be sure.  It did the trick!

     I replaced the soap dispenser confident that it had no lingering residue or odor from the previous wash cycle and began my ritual washing!  Even if you have one of the older top load style washers be sure you clean the fabric softener dispenser!  Clean it completely and make sure there is no scent coming from it!  It is ok to smell good, but not in the deer woods!