The most common odour reducing solution is vinegar. Apply directly to the fabric, let the household strength white vinegar sit overnight to work on the fabric and dry thoroughly before you rinse out. Then dry as normal. Do not use commercial strength vinegar without diluting. Test a patch if you're worried about it affecting the dyes. It should help set the dye colour.

I did a Google search for methods to remove odor of spilled milk from carpets and such. Vinegar is mentioned (like the poster above), but also sodium bicarbonate (baking soda). See for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_bicarbonate#As_a_cleaning_agent

Good luck.

All your answers are very valuable to me. Thank you all.

Be careful of using sodium bicarbonate on your bare hands as it sometimes irritates the skin. It may also lighten the colours, It is actually a strong cleaning substance. Use rubber gloves when you apply it. In fact, I don't think that you should use sodium bicarbonate. It might combine with other substances used in the dyeing process - you might loose the quality of the colours.

Ms. Jean, Thanks for your advice. It is really very valuable to me. Since the complete product is of organic(very natural), I would like to remove the odor with some organic material only. Please, let me know if there is any more idea on it. Thank you once again.

Actually, you will need to wash the clothes using phosphate free laundry soap in a washing machine on a gentle cycle - or by hand. That is the normal way to remove the smell of milk.,, You can put vinegar in the wash to sweeten the smell of the cloth. Vinegar will also 'set' the dye if it has a tendency to run. However, simply mixing vinegar and milk will sour the milk - eg. making it smell potentially worse. Vinegar cleans the textile of dirt and dye residues, but without washing the textile as well, will simply sour the milk... So you will need to wash the textiles as well..

The entire process depends on the volume of clothing - I am telling you about the process but I am thinking about domestic examples - not industrial. In any case please don't use phosphate soaps as that endangers the water.

Ms. Jean,

Thank you for your input.

Ms. Jean or anyone can please clarify me the following doubts if you have any idea :

- If i'm washing my organic cloth using phosphate free laundry soap, will it be an organic even after the wash.

- Once I use the vinegar on the organic cloths, will the cloth remains organic.

- After washing and treating in vinegar will it give a positive result when the fabric is taken for organic test in the lab.

- Is there any measures to use these things with limitation to get a positive result in the lab test.

Plea advice on the above. Thanks in advance.

Ordinary household vinegar is a very gentle natural substance that people have used since the beginning of time.

It is part of the household technology of flavouring and preserving food. Some examples are salad dressings, pickles, and chutneys. Women often preserved the surpluses of fruits and vegetables in vinegar for use later on in the winter after the harvest. ..the refrigerator and the freezer made this a less important task.

If a recipe required soured milk - and your mother or aunt had none at home, she probably added vinegar or lemon juice to the milk to safely sour it.

It is also widely used to clean objects and surfaces in the house. This was more true when manufactured cleaning products were not available. I'm sure that if you read histories of domestic technologies of the past you would learn that this was the case.

Vinegar is a very natural 'gentle' acid. It occurs naturally. It is not produced by complicated chemical processes. It is distilled from fruit and grains. Fruit when it rots often produces acid. So you should not worry about using vinegar. Natural vinegar is not going to harm the cloth.

The cloth remains organic. It has been for centuries used to 'sweeten' the laundry.

It might be more useful to you to ask a chemist - someone who understands the requirements of the lab test - whether vinegar is acceptable. But it is surely more acceptable than a strong man-made processed chemical as it occurs in simple natural chemical processes. There may also be some certification requirements produced by your potential export markets - that might be helpful.

Hope this helps:

http://www.global-standard.org/the-standard.html

http://www.global-standard.org/images/stories/gots-version3_01march2011.pdf

thank you Avinash Manian.

I don't know whether the quanitity of vinegar that you might use could cause havoc with water or not. Perhaps you ought to ask a reputable chemist or water specialist /engineer

Mr. Avinash,

Thank you very much for your links.

Ms. Jean,

Thank you too for your interesting advice and involvement.

Mr. Avinash,

Thank you very much for your links.

Ms. Jean,

Thank you too for your interesting advice and involvement.