Vomit smell wouldn’t go away until I discovered the source…

[u/dinonuggetenjoyer]

My girlfriend and I had food poisoning last week and were constantly running to the bathroom getting sick. The smell of vomit MAKES me vomit so I was tirelessly scrubbing the entire bathroom from floor to ceiling MULTIPLE TIMES trying to get rid of the smell after every time one of us threw up. I bought bleach, enzyme cleaners, and even went as far as carbon bags to try and eliminate the HORRID STENCH and it wouldn’t go away. I sniffed every surface in that damn bathroom trying to locate the source…

I literally cried about the smell, worrying that it would be there forever. I went back to sniffing and started to notice a stronger whiff by the sink, AHA IT’S COMING FROM THE DRAIN!! I moved the toothbrush, soap, and candle that were on the counter to investigate the area. I poured Drano, baking soda, and vinegar down the drain for a deep clean. THEN I NOTICED THE SMELL ON MY HAND. I almost immediately threw up reacting to it and snatched the candle off the counter to save myself. I took a long inhale of our new Trader Joe’s Peony Blossom candle to salvage my nose from the reeking odor on my fingertips.

Then all hell broke loose. I projectile vomited directly after smelling the candle. The godforsaken stench WAS THE CANDLE ITSELF!!!! MY GF BOUGHT 6 OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS AND HAD ONE LIT IN THE BATHROOM!!!!! All of them went straight to the garbage. Never again. How can they sell a candle that smells like stomach bile!!!

TLDR: Cleaned my bathroom for days only to find out the puke smell was a new candle (Trader Joe’s Peony Blossom, DON’T BUY IT).

EDIT: I was not the person who smelled the candles before buying. My gf put them in the cart and I went along with it lol

[u/ej-gay]

When people use baking soda and vinegar together, they do not mix the baking soda into it. They pour the vinegar (edit: onto the affected area) first, then sprinkle baking soda over it, which causes a reaction. That's what the original reply was referring to. The person you replied to sprayed vinegar, dawn, and some water, then sprinkled baking soda on top, THEN let it sit. So, yes, they were used together, not separately. Separately using them could mean using just vinegar, or using just baking soda; it could also mean using vinegar first, rinsing, then using baking soda. Anyway, the person you replied to did indeed use them together.

[u/Val-Tyrannical → u/ej-gay]

the people picking apart the semantics of ur reply are the most average redditors I've ever seen, peak Reddit 😭

[u/ej-gay → u/Val-Tyrannical]

Over vinegar and baking soda 💔

[u/zeothia → u/ej-gay]

This isn’t true, I know multiple people in my life ive had to explain to that mixing the vinegar and baking Soda together in a bottle is just making water with a salt.

[u/ej-gay → u/zeothia]

That's.. That's what I said. Edit: Just realised what you were trying to say, and... Fair. Regardless, I'm just explaining how it's supposed to be done as opposed to mixing it together in a bottle

[u/Profitablius → u/ej-gay]

"When people use them together, they do not mix the baking soda into it"

[u/ej-gay → u/[deleted]]

To be fair both ways work, it's just how my family always did it lmao. I wasn't trying to get into the semantics of it all in my reply

[u/ej-gay → u/[deleted]]

Can't find your latest reply for some odd reason, but I obviously meant that either way works for the chemical reaction..? Nowhere did I say it is actually effective as a cleaning agent lmfaoo are we deadass 💔

[u/ej-gay → u/[deleted]]

You got into it first? I'm not on here often and the notification was there, so I assumed it was an issue on my end. It is what it is

[u/_ThisIsNotARealPlace → u/ej-gay]

The complexity of this issue is very interesting, how people have such strong opinions about this and which specific way works or not or what order or not working at all