Why does neoprene stink

Place a tarp over your drying line to keep rain or coastal moisture out. You can attempt to dry your dry or wet suit with your campfire but beware of both melting or burning your GoreTex or neoprene as well as receiving a smokey odor. DryGuy Makes a cigarette lighter powered mobile forced air drying option. Check it out here. If you know otherwise, let me know! Drying gear in your car means a stinky car afterwards. Think about venting the car and use of cedar sachets or other odor or drying.

Wetsuits are hung with thick hangers in a closet or for me being in business, on a clothing rack in a well insulated room. Note even dry neoprene can stink up a closet or basement. On occasion air out the room to keep it smelling normal. Funny Story: Neoprene can smell like weed. A friend had a landlord that called him on it, thinking he had a growing operation.

Check out this link from NRS which has good info on gear drying. Click Here. Skip the confusion and wasted money. Know which is the perfect pick just for you with this simple guide:. I bought a neoprene seat cushion for my kayak and decided to try it on my office chair. I noticed that it had a very strong odor and was affecting my breathing.

I did a bit of research and discovered that neoprene off gasses are considered toxic. Is this a problem in a closed environment but not in or on the water? Is anyone concerned about this? The smell comes from hazardous chemicals e.

These substances are very critical to your health. The evaporation is one reason why a wetsuit gets brittle with time. The higher the temperature, the faster this process gets. Even the least-smelling suit is still bad for sure because it covers your body completely and very tightly. And all this shit is highly fat-soluble. Smell after repeated use is missing hygiene not rinsing it thoroughly after each use, quick drying, like described above.

Post by bragnouff » Mon Oct 07, pm Only experienced that skunky wetsuit smell with O'Neill suits. One friend was complaining about it and I couldn't really comprehend how bad it was, until I got my kid a new suit. If I had known it would be that bad, and that bad for that long, I would definitely have returned it to the shop. Edit: that's the lining in the stinky wetsuit:. Rating: 6. But when it arrived, it smelt like this too — right out of the bag.

The plastic wrapping smelt like it, the invoice paper, the catalogue packaged with it — it all absolutely stank of weed. But — reading this, sounds like other brands have the same problem presumably intermittently too.

I got home after the first wear of the second suit, everything stank of weed again so we checked the packaging that was still here — and that stank, as well as everything that shipped with it proving it was the wetsuit, not the water.

I probably will. But putting a tshirt in a freezer for 3 or 4 days then throwing it straight into a normal wash seemed to cure it. Thanks for the update Rick. Neoprene is also used in construction where it is subjected to outside winter temperatures so I think it would not hurt the suit if you would put it into the freezer, you would have to make sure its completely dry and not wrinkled though…you would need a big freezer…just a thought if anyone will be reading this later.

Uggh, my daughter is having the same problem with this wetsuit made by Oneil. I have one of those noses that is really sensitive to smells. She sails and it is getting into all her gear. Anyone discover a way to get out the smell in the wetsuit? Sadly, I also blamed our dog until I figured it out. Maybe wash it in a washing machine with some mild washing powder. We ended up having to throw away bed linen, tshirts and pillow cases that smelt of weed.

The only thing that seemed to improve it for me was the freezer. I bought Mystic Star wetsuit from wetsuitoutlet and I has the same weed smell what is infecting everything it touches, it drives me crazy! My brand new mystic sharkskin neoprene jacket has a horrible odor of weed and has contaminated a closet in my house, making everything totally funky. Any tips welcome. May try the freezer trick for some of the other clothes.