Make Homemade Scent-Killing Deodorant

[Woody Williams]

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Slather on this mix to keep from getting busted

By T. Edward Nickens

Even if you shower in no-scent soap right before your hunt, the little bit you sweat going to your stand will turn into a powerful stench to deer. That’s why smart hunters compulsively use commercial scent killers. The problem is that their cost can make you apply them sparingly, which is like putting deodorant on only one armpit.

Here’s a simple homemade scent killer. Hydrogen peroxide kills the bacteria and fungi that turn sweat into a deer-busting funk, and baking soda deodorizes whatever sneaks by.

What You Need:

3% Hydrogen Peroxide
Distilled Water
Baking Soda
Shampoo




How It's Done

Step 1: Shop

Assemble the ingredients:

2 cups (16 ounces) 3% hydrogen peroxide
2 cups (16 ounces) distilled water
½ cup baking soda
1 ounce unscented shampoo (available at drug or health-food stores)

Step 2: Mix

Gently combine all the ingredients in a large bowl until the baking soda dissolves. Pour this mixture into a 1-gallon lidded container, such as a milk jug. Let it sit for three days with the lid on loosely to allow gases to escape.

Step 3: Bottle

Fill a plastic bottle that has a trigger sprayer with the scent killer. It must be clean, so buy a new one from a hardware store or online (usplastics.com).

Step 4: Wipe

To make scent-killing wipes, place plain brown multifold paper towels—the kind that come in stacks, not on a roll—in a small plastic tub with an airtight lid. Cover them with scent killer and let it soak in. Pour out excess liquid and replace the lid. Now you can wipe down boots, bows, and stands, and even use a towel or two to neutralize the sweat you produce shinnying up that perfect white oak.

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[DEERTRACKS]

Interesting post.

[hotshot]

I am ready to make a batch, but for the life of me can't figure out why I want unscented shampoo lathering up on me as I walk to a stand? any idea as to why that is in the mix?

[parrothead]

What I make is not scent killer. I boil Cedar branches and store in milk jugs. I use a spray bottle to apply

[hunter480]

hotshot said:

I am ready to make a batch, but for the life of me can't figure out why I want unscented shampoo lathering up on me as I walk to a stand? any idea as to why that is in the mix?

I`m going to wager a guess as to why the shampoo, and I`m probably wrong, but.....

I know that whenever we apply a film coating to tablets at work, we have whatever dyes and plasticizers are in the coating make-up, which always included purified water, but then we need some agent to use as a “vehicle”, to deliver the coating solution. Water may evaporate off, but whatever you use as the vehicle for your coating has inert ingredients that allow it to carry the rest of the parts, since it won`t evaporate or degrade.

For example, we used to use Methylene Chloride as the vehicle for film coating Darvon, Darvocet, and some vitamins before the industry went to strictly aqueous film coatings. The Methylene Chloride carried the coating to the tablets before it was dried off in high heat in the coating pans, completely removing the solvent from the tablets.

Anyway, that`s my best guess.

;D

[Woody Williams]

hunter480 said:

hotshot said:

I am ready to make a batch, but for the life of me can't figure out why I want unscented shampoo lathering up on me as I walk to a stand? any idea as to why that is in the mix?

I`m going to wager a guess as to why the shampoo, and I`m probably wrong, but.....

I know that whenever we apply a film coating to tablets at work, we have whatever dyes and plasticizers are in the coating make-up, which always included purified water, but then we need some agent to use as a “vehicle”, to deliver the coating solution. Water may evaporate off, but whatever you use as the vehicle for your coating has inert ingredients that allow it to carry the rest of the parts, since it won`t evaporate or degrade.

For example, we used to use Methylene Chloride as the vehicle for film coating Darvon, Darvocet, and some vitamins before the industry went to strictly aqueous film coatings. The Methylene Chloride carried the coating to the tablets before it was dried off in high heat in the coating pans, completely removing the solvent from the tablets.

Anyway, that`s my best guess.

;D

I think that is a very good guess.

I know in spraying Round Up for weeds if you put a few drops of dish detergent in the solution the Round Up will cling to the weds better.


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[grappledad]

Short of the water that's the same thing I use to get skunk off of my dogs. I use lemon dish liquid also.It's stronger .The peroxide kills the koodys, the baking soda absorbs the oder and the soap disolves the oil. To deer maybe we smell like skunks.

[danf]

Soap is a surfactant, which is what Woody was referring to. Surfactants break the water tension, and allow the water to be absorbed into materials more easily.

Could be another possibility there. The shampoo may make the solution absorb into clothing a lot easier and thus is a more effective solution.

Thanks for posting that Woody, I'm been wanting to make that solution, but can't find the proper towels yet. That and I couldn't remember where I'd seen the mixture recipe! Thought it was F&S, but couldn't remember. Guess it was! ;D

[hotshot]

Thanks guys! I tore the page out of my Fand S and put it in my hunting clothes storage containter. I'll be able to mix it up for years..... getting the page laminated!

[danf]

Anybody know where to buy those tri-fold towels?

Asked my wife about bringing some home from school, but they changed the towel dispensers this year with the new construction.... Just my luck!

[jstalljon]

danf said:

Anybody know where to buy those tri-fold towels?

Asked my wife about bringing some home from school, but they changed the towel dispensers this year with the new construction.... Just my luck!

If you have a local janitor/maintenance supply company nearby, check with them.

[10point]

I have been using this but it is turning my boots white. Should I use less baking soda?

[Dan Reeves]

I notice the commercial products leave a white residue on my rubber boots and other non-porous materials, I don't think it's a big deal.

[danf]

Made the concoction last winter before a hog hunt...

DO NOT USE a full ounce of soap/shampoo. A few drops will probably be more than sufficient. The last day we were there, it rained all day. Needless to say, I could have jumped in a shower and simply rinsed off, I had so much lather in my hair and everywhere else that I had applied it....

[huntingman]

just thought i should bring this post back

[chicobrownbear]

Some of you better make a double batch.

[huntingman]

;D

[lugnutz]

Oct 23, 2007 9:55:28 GMT -5 danf said:

Made the concoction last winter before a hog hunt...

DO NOT USE a full ounce of soap/shampoo. A few drops will probably be more than sufficient. The last day we were there, it rained all day. Needless to say, I could have jumped in a shower and simply rinsed off, I had so much lather in my hair and everywhere else that I had applied it....

thats tooo funny!!! ;D