How are you currently washing his clothes? I would suggest using Borax and TOL detergent with enzymes and maybe some oxyclean. If you have a TL, maybe let the load agitate for several minutes and soak for at least half an hour. I have had luck with spraying peroxide on some spots and letting it soak for a while. Have a cat that doesn't want to poop in her box, but loves a forgotten towel used to wipe up a spill on the floor.

I would wash and rinse once with Persil 2/1 with the wash temp about 105-110F. The Persil 2/1 has 5 enzymes and they will work at these temperatures without setting stains. You might also give it some soak time. I would then wash again with Persil 2/1 with oxyclean at as high a temperature as your machine will go, at least 145F. What type of machine do you have? If you have a machine that uses a small amount of water, it needs to have a heater to do this. If you have a full fill machine you might be able to have the water hot enough out of your hot water heater.

Borax and baking soda are great odor removers.

I don't know what type of washer you have but multiple dilution pre-washes before you add all your cleaning products (main wash) should help.

Meaning, do a cool pre-wash or two, getting most of it out. Then a long cycle with your additives. Use a warm water temp. setting, as hot can set this type of stain.

Use a top quality detergent like Persil or Tide with enzymes.

I agree with georgect about the baking soda. Walmart is setting their summer area back up and in that dept, with the pool supplies they have big bags of baking soda for a very reasonable price.

A long hot wash with OxiClean should only be done on whites and lights. I also would not use a 145F wash on colors, that's way to hot for colors.

I have a front load washer and HATE it, it doesn't have a soak option either. I'm currently using Tide ultra with stain boost and borax. I've used persil before and love it too so I may go back to that and try it with the oxy clean. The only weird thing is I haven't been washing them in HOT because I was afraid of stains and smell setting in. I do however run them in 2 cycles with a pre wash. Maybe it's time to upgrade the washer and try some of these suggestions. Thank you all so much.

Hi MamaPinky! I hope you are doing well, lady!! XO

Hi Joel, I'm good thanks. I also hope your doing well. Use the clothsline lately? I used my line quite a few times this winter, a few weeks ago we had 70 deg. Temps..was great and I don't need to worry about plant allergens lol

Majority of frontloaders nowadays with a specific Prewash option, the prewash is cold. Warm rinse selection, typically only the last rinse is warm and restricted to 70°F to 75°F.

MamaPinky has found that selecting Rinse & Spin on her frontloader allows cold, warm, or hot for said rinse ... but that's non-standard (and may be a software 'glitch' on her machine, LOL, although to her advantage).

Mama, I am doing well. I am as busy as a cat covering it up these days. lol. Yeah, I hung clothes out yesterday (whites), and it was 38 degrees, I think. I am crazy, but my whites smell the freshest and are whiter than snow. ;)

Dadoes-- I was only referring to warm rinses as an example of how a nursing home handled similar laundry. Obviously, the normal home owner would not ever use that much energy or water, hot or otherwise, to wash even the most disgusting of loads at home. It was an attempt to show that it does take water to flush and plenty of aggressive washing to deep clean that kind of soil out, without any odor remaining. Cold pre-washes are acceptable, IMHO, but I want that wash HOT! :)

Thank you so much Joel. I guess I'm a lazy washer lol. I'm not a huge fan of separating so I always washed in cold so nothing bleeds. Guess I'm definitely changing my wash habits right now.. ASAP

Did you say you don't sort and you wash in cold?? Mama's nightmare..Haha..stick around kiddo, you will get rid of the poop and your colors will be bright and your whites screaming. BUT you may never look at laundry the same way again. Better clear out a cubbord, a closet will also work, your gonna need a place to store your new addiction.

For some reason this post made me think of my most loving friend, JEAN, who I really miss.

I'm on board with the cloth diaper treatment, if nothing else works. This would be for bleach-friendly colors and fabrics/elastics. First, get the solids OUT. Then, do a strong bleach:water pre-wash with at least 30 minutes soak time (in cold water to first get rid of any stains the hot water would set). Then, drain all the other water, run a hot water wash with plenty of liquid detergent, and when that's finished, run an extra rinse cycle with a 1/2 to 1 cup of vinegar added. That should get rid of the nasty smell. Whatever you do, do NOT throw it in the dryer until it passes the smell test.

30 mins is too long for a chlorine bleach soak ... damages the fabric. Chlorine bleach pretty much does its thing in ~5 mins.

I agree with Dadoes..nothing is so bleach friendly that it could handle 30 minutes of a chlorine soak.

Oh I know about the dryer and smell.. some how one pair snuck in (the husband was in charge of that load) was NOT a fun time lol

Back to the chlorine thing - 10% chlorine for ten minutes is what has been traditionally recognized by the health department for sanitation purposes(dishes) -- but it may or may not loosen all the "yuck" or remove a stain; thus, the longer soak time. And you're right dadoes & mamapinky0--no, not every fabric would be able to take it. Some of the elastics are first to go.

Bleach disinfection of textiles are different from dishes. I don't know a single fabric, natural or synthetic that can handle a chlorine soak as you outlined Susan.

As Dadoes says 5 minutes 6 tops with chlorine contact. Any longer and the chlorine is doing its damage.

Rinse well to remove all chlorine, if you still smell it when the clothes come out of the washer its still there, rinse again until scent is gone.

Well, you could do like people did back in the day with cloth diapers and give them a little ammonia in the wash water or perhaps a short soak before washing. Safe for most fabrics and colors too.

MRB

With the talk about Ammonia, I have a question about it.... The only Ammonia I have ever seen, or noticed anyway said "Sudsy" on the bottle. Do they make a non-sudsing Ammonia? Also, what dirty laundry circumstances would you need or use ammonia?

MiMi there is s low suds ammonia, the bottle would say.

Ammonia is a great blood remover in cool water..it also removes many odors..removes oil/grease. And if used on whites with a whites detergent it will boost the whitening effects of sodium percarbonate.

It does run at a PH of about 11 so if used with powder detergent be sure to rinse well.

Thank you Mama....

A bleach rinse in commercial laundry is typically just 6 minutes.... I agree with the short exposure times to chlorine bleach. I love bleach for specific applications. Laundry is not one of them... it is a LAST resort for stain removal or a quick way to sanitize. I once read in an old housekeeping manual that when washing "white" laundry, chlorine bleach should NEVER replace proper laundering techniques. That has stuck with me for more than 15 years now! Although, I did bleach a load of dishtowels last week in the vintage Maytag, just because I felt like it that day.

Side note---I love ammonia in those disgusting type loads. Gets rid of the grease, the grime, and the stink. ;)

And cold washes??! Don't....just don't. Laundry sin.