Help I STINK!!!!

[Blackchains]

Help, every time I wear my wetsuit I stink for the next several days, and no amount of showering seems to help. I never pee in my suit, and always use sink the stink.

Does this happen to anyone else? Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you, my coworkers will thank you as well!

[Sludge]

My instructor always dived a wetsuit. He would put a half cup of Scope in about ten gallons of water and soak the wetsuit for several hours.

[NorthWoodsDiver]

I throw my wetsuit in the bathtub with some mouthwash as well. It still smells, just not as bad.

[Blackchains]

My problem is that both ME and the wetsuit stink. I am more worried about me at this point than the wet suit! Sludge, are you serious about the mouth wash? Sounds like that could burn??

[bpcfire1]

Ive had the same issue...cant seem to beat it in the suit...i get a shower and im good but the suit has a musky smell....

[Sludge]

A half cup in ten gallons of water is pretty well diluted. He did it after every trip. (I don't know if he peed in the suit - I don't want to know.)

[nakatomi]

I would recommend a highly effective disinfectant to kill whatever is causing that smell, most likely some form of bacteria. Here in Europe we have DES EW80.

[mdax]

Wash hair with shampoo, scrub body with soap and wash cloth, rinse, lather body with one of those fufu body wash teen things like axe soap, follow with cologne

[whodunit68]

For some reason, I don't really experience this. I refuse to pee in my wetsuit and was diving exclusively wet until about a month ago. Wayne @ Amigos turned me on to Odoban while trying to convince me to pee in my wetsuit (don't ask but I wish I recorded this conversation!)
Anyhow, I've used it (though still not peeing in wetsuit) and the wetsuit actually smells pretty good! I use it in a tub of water with a small amount of Odoban but if you have the space (I live in an apt building), hang it up and use a sprayer (like for your lawn) that will create the mix automatically. This is what he does. The stuff is about $11/gallon at Home Depot.

[Blackchains]

Mdax, your on the right trail, although currently, I lather repeat, lather repeat, lather repeat,..........you get the idea, maybe I need more AXE.