Sunbody sweat cleaning

[Fredthecat]

Any good way to clean (remove sweat/body odor) from a cloth sweat band and straw crown of a Sunbody hat?

I've been wearing my Sunbody Fedora while plowing fields and preping farm fields for fall plantings. Great hat!
I've sweated it up so much it's soaked through the cloth sweat band and into the crown and taken on a body odor I can now detect as soon as I don the hat and it has a green hue the width of the band. Remember old sweaty gym cloths stuffed in a locker for 2 weeks...that smell.

I've cleaned it with Simple Green and cold water, turned sweat band out and dried sitting on crown, that helped a lot.

Any good straw, cloth sweat band cleaning tips?

Thanks, Fredthecat

 

[Fredthecat]

Thanks.
As I expected. It's still a great work hat, I suppose I'll now need another for go to town trips.

 

[DougC]

Try soaking the hat in clean water...you don't have anyting to lose. Probably won't take out the stain, but, it will get rid of the smell. When my pam leaf gets nasty, I throw it in the pool--we have a salt water system, not chlorine--and the hat smells better. No chlorine means the horse hair band doesn't fade either.

Edit--I expect the smell is what really gets to you.

 

[1961MJS]

Thanks.
As I expected. It's still a great work hat, I suppose I'll now need another for go to town trips.

Hi

Hatman Jack's in Wichita carries Sun body hats, so I usually buy one every couple of years. I have one for sweaty work, BBQ festivals etc, and one cleaner one. My latest has vents, a decent ribbon, and a stampede string and was still only $62.00.

later

 

[zetwal]

Try soaking the hat in clean water...you don't have anyting to lose. Probably won't take out the stain, but, it will get rid of the smell. When my pam leaf gets nasty, I throw it in the pool--we have a salt water system, not chlorine--and the hat smells better. No chlorine means the horse hair band doesn't fade either.

Just a small correction. Salt water pools do contain chorine. It is produced by way of chemical reactions within a salt fed chorine generator.

 

[DougC]

True, but the amount is very low.

 

[Sam Craig]

The great thing about plam straw is that it actually benefits from getting wet, so use some mild soap ... like mild dish soap that will remove grease and wash the sweat and the hat where it is discolored, rinse well and reshape ...

I don't know where your last house is located, but here on the Great Plains it is going to hit triple digits again today and tomorrow, from what the weather guru says ... so you can just put the hat on and go outside for a couple of minutes and let it dry, that way you get a perfect, custom fit, too.

I've had good luck washing palm straw. It may not get ALL of the stain out, but it will help and it will certainly feel and smell fresher.

Good luck,

Sam