Smoke Smell in Book?

My mil loaned me a book from Joyce Meyer that I truly wanted to read, but it reaked. I propped it sort of open in a closed plastic bag with baking soda and baby powder in it. I left it a few days and then took the book out - shook all of the baby powder and baking soda and it was 100% better.

not sure if this will work but is worth a try. get a package of cat littler the kind that is just the cheap sandy stuff. you dn't need to pay extra for the clumping kind. spread it out in a shallow flat box and open the book up and stand it in the box sort of open with pages apart lay a garbage bag tented over the whole thing. leave it over night. the smell might not be gone but should be really diminished. i know my hubby spills all sorts of nasty smelling stuff in the garage floor and we just spread cat littler over it and leave it alone. sweep it up the next day and the smell is usually gone. its worth a try. good luck. and if you can't fix it then make sure you look on ebay for the book. i got my sons $1200 worth of college text books on ebay for a little less than $250. good luck.

Leave it out in the sun.
All day.

Tracy K. had a good idea.

If you go to home depot the is a spray made to get rid of smoke oder,you can spray it far away enough that it wont damage the pages

I don't think you can get the smell out... if there is incense you can stand maybe you can cover the smell with that? Check out Amazon or half (dot) com for cheaper prices. Slugbooks (dot) com is a search engine to find the lowest price. Good luck!

Probably isnt a sure fire way. But I would try febreezing it. Not spraying it directly on the pages but close to it. Maybe that will help.

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I'd put it in a large zip lock bag and sprinkle a whole box of baking soda in between the pages.
Let it sit in a warm place for awhile (in a sunny spot) or a day, then shake it out and see if it's any better.
The smoky smell might not be totally gone but it should be a lot better.
When you do read it, have a fan positioned so the air blows over the book and away from you.

Try setting it out in the sun for several hours - assuming you get a nice, bright, dry day. It might work and you're not out any money if it doesn't (except the cost of a new book - wow! What a price!).

I would try & put it in a bag with dryer sheets (?) for about a week...dunno how long it will be before you need access to the book...how about the library?...good luck! Oh, & congrats!

My mom always swears that charcoal is the best odor remover. You could try putting it in a bag with a few bricks of charcoal. I did put a bowl of charcoal under my car seat after I hit a skunk once, it seemed to work pretty well. Good luck.

baking soda and unused coffee grounds both absorb odors. I suggest putting the book in a bag with one of those and leaving for a couple of days. You could even sprinkle some in between the pages. It'll brush off.

Maybe leaving the book outside or in a garage for awhile might help?

Since you are borrowing this book I would be really careful what I do to it. Try your library and if they don't have it they might be able to get it from another library.

Congratulations!
J.

Try leaving it in a small bathroom with it open, pages flaired (stand it up) and then put a shallow bowl of white vinegar in there and shut the door. Leave it as long as you can. I can get horrible smoke smell out of my DH's coat if he's in someone's house in a night. There's absolutely no smoke residue left by the next morning. Try that. :) BTW, I'm not prego and I notice it a long way off.

Good question. I've come accross some books (2nd hand) that smell of smoke. I've left them sitting outside in the sun and that does help but it still smells. I never thought of the baking soda, that sounds like a great idea to me.