wash bathing suits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wash after every use in cold water and laundry soap with extra rinse. The chlorine will destroy the suit quickly if not washed.

[Anonymous]

My daughter is a club swimmer so swimming a lot all year round. She rinses out bathing suit in shower when she gets home from practice and hangs it in there. She wears it about 3x and then puts it in wash. I wash the bathing suits with a regular load and then hang it to dry. Her suits last years no problem.

[Anonymous]

People swim in the chlorine so the suit smelling like chlorine is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mostly just soak in water and hang try but every once in a while I'll fully wash in machine.

+1. Year round swimmer in our house and we have found the chlorine smell never really goes away.

We add powdered sodium ascorbate for rinsing tech suits. The vitamin c neutralizes the chlorine immediately.

We don’t bother with it for practice suits - they get rinsed and hung to dry. I only buy Speedo endurance after too many frayed suits containing Lycra/spandex. Sometimes they accidentally get washed and dried and they are still perfectly fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what usually works for us is practice suit goes in very small bucket (think size of a hotel ice bucket or smaller) fill bucket partially with cold water and swish suit around, take out suit with one hand and dump water from bucket with other hand, then keep repeating until chlorine smell is gone - sometimes need to also hold suit directly under running tap and move the suit around, & our PRACTICE suits can sometimes take gentle squeezing a few times in between bucket swishes and running directly under tap to get rid of the diluted chlorine water - this works for us, try at you own risk

PP. This is a lot of work. Try sodium ascorbate, it is an antioxidant that reacts with chlorine to form a chlorine salt, water and table salt (NaCl). It’s commonly used to get rid of chlorine in water for fisheries and for aquariums. Sodium ascorbate is better than ascorbic acid, which produces a chlorine salt and a small amount of hydrochloric acid. Sprinkling a teaspoon of sodium ascorbate in your bucket will neutralize chlorine immediately, you will be surprised at how quickly the chlorine smell goes away.

I also add some to water in a spray bottle for my kids when they are at a big meet, since they often keep those pools heavily chlorinated to handle all the swimmers.

[Anonymous]

I rinse them well in cold water in the tub or sink and then wash them in the laundry at the first opportunity.

[Anonymous]

Oh....so I should rinse bathing suits with cold water /hang dry or soak them in bucket with cold water EVEN though I plan to wash them with other laundry every few days? I have been dumpping those wet bathing suit without rinsing then in the basket waiting to be washed in a few days.