What to do with a SMELLY hat?!

[PucciNPoni]

My every day riding hat smells like something has died on it. It's a combination of mouldy smell from being rained on and a lot of sweat in the headband. My initial desire is to burn it. I pretty much did that with my last hat - however the last one had been crashed in to trees and dropped several times. The one I now use as my every day hat used to be my show hat but I didn't like the way it looked so bought a new show hat and down graded the other.


Other than being rather whiffy, there's nowt wrong with it and I'm not in the market for a new hat - can't really afford one anyway. Sooooo - any suggestions for de-stinkifying it?!

 

[Sparkly Snowdrop]

Febreeze really helps.

 

[Nollaig Shona]

Febreeze really helps.

+1 I use the anti-bacterial one

 

[PucciNPoni]

+1 I use the anti-bacterial one

That's probably what it needs - reckon it is full of bacteria....how is it against sensitive skin?

 

[Footlights]

Another vote for Febreeze!

 

[FairyLights]

Fabreeze and plenty of it.

 

[supagran]

Another vote for Febreze, but I also leave a tumble drier sheet inside the hat when I'm not using it! Seems to work for me.

 

[bellatrix]

That's probably what it needs - reckon it is full of bacteria....how is it against sensitive skin?

States on the back of my Febreze 'Fabric - Lavender and Camomile' that it's dermatologically tested and I've read online its kind to skin. So I think it'd be ok!

 

[PucciNPoni]

Most excellent - I shall be buying the stuff by the gallon I think!

 

[s4sugar]

Try the febreeze on a sleeve before you spray your hat as I, and others, come out in a rash on contact with it.

Don't you have any odourkill or odourgene as that will work.

 

[madeleine1]

i got a hat and boot spray from my tack shop. cant remeber what its call but its nice it dries it out and makes it small better.

 

[Nosey]

I washed mine with some warm water and baby shampoo and used a nail brush. Got a little lather round the padded headband bit then gave it a little rinse using minimal water - you should have seen the colour of the rinse water ...grim! I then clipped hat round gate to dry. I have got sensitive skin and sometimes get a little rash on my forehead...now I know why!!

 

[Nollaig Shona]

That's probably what it needs - reckon it is full of bacteria....how is it against sensitive skin?

It's never bothered me, but I'm not sure how sensitive my skin is!

Try the febreeze on a sleeve before you spray your hat as I, and others, come out in a rash on contact with it.

I'd advise trying that first ^^

 

[Sags_Deer]

I washed mine on the lowest heat possible in the dishwasher, on its own and no detergent, worked a treat and deffo doesnt smell anymore, took a couple of days to dry out tho.