I bought a few BB kits from a lady who is getting out of making babies… i noticed the smoke smell the minute i took my mask off clear through the heavy bag they were in… i dawn washed them… and they still smelled do bad., so i soaked in bleach… it was the only way to get smell out… no i need help to get the bleach smell out… this is driving me crazy… and bvery big lesson learned… smoking around the dolls just ruins them
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Was this from a FB page?
To nonsmokers, smoke ruins everything. Have you let the pieces air out, or washed with hot soapy water again?
Activated charcoal can help absorb odors.
Also try using the search bar on this topic, as this type of thing gets posted every few weeks, it seems.
Hopefully someone has found something that’s helped. 
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I bought 2 kits from a house fire. Smoke smell pretty bad ! I have let them soak in a bath with vinager and water for 2 days. Wash them with dish soap. Scrub them with baking soda and vinager.
I finally got rid of the smell by letting them in a close bag full of baking soda for a few months. The smell is still there, but faint.
I guess cigarette smell will go away more easily with one of these methods !
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If you have a dishwasher, running them through a cycle on the top rack should help. Putting them in a closed bag with pouches of activated charcoal (available at Amazon, Walmart and Home Depot) will also help.
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Genius… i would of never thought about washing baby parts in my dishwasher., but this makes perfect sense… it will not melt them though will it?
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Not according to people who have done it.
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It will be fine, I do it all the time. Just take the parts out while they are warm. If you leave them sit, they will mold to the dish rack, then you will have bumps in your kit. Fixable by boiling the parts, but why bother if it can be avoided.
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Also curious if this was from a FB page. I’ve been considering buying a LE kit from a lady getting out of reborning, but don’t want to spend that much if it’s going to smell.
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I haven’t had any melt so far.
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I wash all my new kits in the dishwasher and they have never melted. You have to put them on the top rack and don’t use heated drying, just regular wash.
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Genesis users bake their parts in an oven, dishwashers don’t even come close to that hot.
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Ok… the dishwasher took the bleach smell out and it now smells like baked in steamy hot ashtray:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:
seriously not hapoy with thus purchase… it was raining and with my mask., i did not smell it till i got down the road and started smelling it faintly… i honestly think she ruined them… 
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It did nit melt… but it also did not work😭
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Try running them through the dishwasher again. If that doesn’t work, try putting them in a tightly closed plastic bag with pouches of activated charcoal for a week or two.
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Try this. Put it in a big bag with the kit. Shake it all around so the kit gets it all over it. Then leave it in it for a week.
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I can’t say that I have dealt with smoke, but I definitely have dealt with kits with horrible chemical odors and heavy grease. I recently had to soak some in dawn water for days, changing the water out multiple times, plus ran through the dishwasher. I also created a paste with baking soda, dawn, a little water, and scrubbed them with that too. It’s not always an easy process.
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Years ago I received a kit that smelled of cigarette smoke. Washing it with Dawn dish soap helped a little bit but not enough so I put it in a large plastic container with a lid and dumped a couple of boxes of baking soda in it and left it for several months. I would occasionally open the container and take a whiff but I didn’t take it out until the smell was gone completely. You just need to have patience with it.
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I’m sorry it didn’t work. Try the kitty litter.