A friend got a mostly white skunk and asked me if I could tan it. It sprayed and he did not wash it before skinning. Took it out of the freezer and it's ripe. Peroxide/baking soda/soap bath before fleshing? It's thawing outside right now in an enclosed container.

You becha. Quart of peroxide, cup of baking soda and a tablespoon or so of Dawn dish wash liquid. Mix together and put the sucker in it. I have always found it much more successful if I get the fur good and saturated with the mixture and just leave it in the bucket for 15-20 min. The mixture foams up and penetrates the fur right to the skin when that happens. Take it out and rinse it off with fresh water, hang it and let the fur dry as long as you can then flesh it. I know the conventional method it to board it with fur in. I don't do that, the fur is usually still damp from the washing and I flesh, put in my borax tub and get borax on every part of the flesh side paying particular attention to the thicker areas around the head. I shake it off turn it fur side out, shake it again and put in on a board. It takes a few days longer to dry but it works for me.

I bought some skunk deodorizer at Farm % Fleet.

I have tried some of the premix solutions like Poof or whatever it is called but it has never come close to the peroxide, baking soda. dawn mix. The peroxide mix is not that expensive.

I know the OP did not have the option, but I run mine through the process on the carcass. I find it is a lot easier to get them dry on the carcass.