Maybe I’m over thinking it but wouldn’t you get scent right back on your clothes when you put them on? We all have our habits, preferences and good luck stuff but walking 70 yards upwind of your stand is going to get you busted no matter what you wear or wash your clothes in. Have you been able to consistently walk upwind of deer using the baking soda?
One of the fallacies of sodium bicarb lore is that it sucks odors out of the air. It doesn't. It does not store odors (like activated charcoal is supposed to do). What it seems to do is chemically change them. The other thing that it does is change the PH so that the odor-causing bacteria are inhibited.
What I meant was that when I was too lazy to do the baking soda, deer have winded me 70 yards upwind of my stand.
I'm not much of a pussy-footer. I'm more of a walking landform, so I don't do a whole lot of still hunting.
What I can tell you is that I've watched deer from my stand walk along my path of ingress with no signs of alertness.
