pet urine, whiskey, perfume, you can use white vinegar to get rid of most smells on most materials: carpets, furniture, clothes, without damaging the material.
vinegar is amazing at breaking down odors and then evaporating and not leaving a trace.
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gpt it. it sounds like the lingering vinegar has been tied up with your detergent's bonding agent, which stays on fibers for multiple wash cycles after being used once.
If you mix vinegar into oil or alcohol, it can get stained into fibers, but if you completely dry and then throw it under the sun for the afternoon, flip it over to make sure all of the acetic acidd bonded into the fibers gets a chance to evaporate, that vinegar smell will go away.
it's all tied to that one compound evaporating.
If you wash your towel once with the detergent and then wash it three times with no detergent, you'll still have that slight deyergent smell because of the bonding agent in the detergent.
PA resident here, coincidentally.
have a good rest of your day,; i appreciate your explanation.