Do you stink? Okay, not technically 'you' but some of your
clothes. yep, all of us have some sort of terrifying garment that
reeks after the slightest use.
You know the scenario, your mates walk 20 metres upwind of you at
all times, your partner will do anything to avoid sharing a tent or
other confined space and after a hard session at the gym, other users
glare at you, mutter darkly and hold their noses ostentatiously. Bad
stuff.
Until now those unwarranted slurs on your personal hygiene regime
are just something you've had to live with, but not any more if
Grangers new Extreme Cleaner Plus works as promised.
The basic Gore-approved Extreme Cleaner's been around for a while,
it's a pure soap based product that's safe to use on technical
waterproof and softshell clothing without stripping DWR treatments
and promoting wetting out of the face fabric. The new Plus version is
the same thing, but with an added wash-in anti-microbe element which,
says Grangers, stops bacteria feasting on sweat and producing the
classic stinking by-products.
You stinkers...
We've selected a few classic stinkers from the OUTDOORSmagic
wardrobe and we've been using Extreme Cleaner Plus for a couple of
weeks now. The culprits include a pair of - otherwise fantastic -
Nike running shorts (clear gyms in seconds), a much abused North Face
baselayer in Powerdry that's gradually developed a life of its own,
an old and abused MHW Transition top with underarm problems and some
Lowe Alpine Dry Flo trunks that, not to put too fine a point on it,
develop an unpleasant whiff after just a couple of hours use.
We'll bring you full impressions in the next few weeks - Grangers
say that the treatment actually builds up to an optimum level after
five or six washes - but initial results are encouraging.
The shorts have definitely improved and we've no longer the gym
parriah after a 30-minute treadmill session, the TNF top seems to
have been cured of its underarm tendencies as has the Transition
leaving just the Lowe trunks, which so far have resisted all attempts
to deodorise them. Little buggers...
Initial conclusions then are that this stuff does actually make a
significant difference, though it seems to work better on longterm
odours than the ones that appear during use, though those too are
markedly improved in the case of the Nike shorts.
Price around £5.50 per 300-ml bottle. More details from the
Grangers web
site.
