How to Get Cigarette Smell Out of Clothes and Your Closet
Quick answer: To get cigarette smell out of clothes, wash washable items with a smoke odor booster added to the load, and saturate items you cannot wash, like coats and suits, directly on the fabric with a smoke odor eliminator. Then treat the closet itself: saturate the interior walls, shelving, and floor, because the closet re-scents clean clothes if you skip it.
You do everything right. You wash the load, you dry it, you hang it up. The next morning you pull on your shirt and there it is again. That faint, stale cigarette smell, like your clothes never left the room they picked it up in.
Why do my clothes still smell like smoke after washing?
Two reasons. First, smoke odor works into fabric fibers, and a normal wash cycle does not always break it down, especially on heavier items like hoodies, denim, and coats. Second, and this is the one most people miss, the closet itself is holding smoke. You hang freshly washed clothes into a small, enclosed space where smoke residue lives in the walls and shelving, and the clothes just soak it right back up.
So you are stuck in a loop. Wash, hang, re-scent, repeat. Your work clothes carry it into the office. Your coat carries it everywhere. And the things you cannot easily wash, the wool coat, the suit jacket, the leather, hold the smell the longest with no obvious fix. Perfume and dryer sheets only pile a second scent on top.
How to get smoke out of clothes and keep it out
You break the loop by treating all three: the wash, the unwashables, and the closet.
For washable clothes: Add a Odor Laundry Booster to the load along with your regular detergent. It works into the fibers during the wash to break smoke odor down at the source, so clothes come out actually clean instead of masked.
For items you cannot wash: Saturate coats, suits, and other unwashables directly with The Stink Solution Smoke Odor Eliminator. Spray the fabric heavily, inside and out. Saturate it fully. Do not lightly mist. It breaks the odor down on contact and will not stain.
For the closet: Saturate the interior walls, shelving, rod area, and floor. This is the step that makes the rest last. A treated closet stops re-scenting your clean clothes.
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FAQ
How do you get cigarette smell out of clothes you can't wash? Saturate the fabric directly, inside and out, with a smoke odor eliminator that breaks odor down on contact. It removes the smell from coats, suits, and other unwashables without a wash cycle and without staining.
Why do my clothes smell like smoke after washing? Either the wash did not break down the smoke in the fibers, or your closet is re-scenting the clean clothes. Add a smoke booster to the load and treat the closet interior to fix both.
Does my closet make my clothes smell like smoke? Yes. An enclosed closet holds smoke residue in the walls and shelving and passes it back to anything hanging inside. Treating the closet is the step that makes clean clothes stay clean.
Is the laundry booster safe for all my clothes? It is Made Without Harsh Chemicals and works alongside your regular detergent. Follow the dosing on the bottle for load size.