The ORIGINAL Bad Air Sponge Odor Absorbing Neutralant, 14.5 ounce (.45kg)

I originally purchased the Bad Air Sponge for use in a small bedroom that was previously occupied by a male relative. If you have ever lived with males, then you have probably encountered this beast called male body odor. It is this magical aroma that seemingly permeates the room with no remorse. The mattress, carpet and even the wall was no match for this smell, even months later. I was at a loss because candles and scented wall plugins were temporarily masking the scent, but did not seem to have a lasting effect. At a loss, I turned to the internet as most of us do in times of need and found this gem. It’s humorous packaging tickled me and the reviews looked promising so I took the plunge and bought it. After receiving the item, I removed the lid and placed in a central area of the room. The contents inside look like a blue cylindrical blob with dark particles which I suspect may be bits of charcoal. Its aroma was pretty nice too. It smells a little like licorice to me. Letting it do its magic overnight, I was pleasantly surprised to see that this compact little container of odor absorbing blue blob was able to rid the room of the formidable foe that is male body odor. Still, I decided to withhold final judgement until the product was finished. As a test, I decided to remove the blue contents from the inside of the container and rest it atop the lid to see if that made a difference. Oh boy, did it ever! It completely eradicated the smell monster from my guest bedroom. Over time, the blue blob inside began to shrink and shrivel up into what looked like a dried up blue mass of alien skin. It took about 2.5 months of sitting out until I thought it was time to throw away the Bad Air Sponge and its tiny nugget of blue blob. During those 2.5 months, the horrible odor was gone and only a light licorice scent could be smelled. Now was the real test, would it hold up? I can safely say that the room has continued smelling fresh and clean even though I have not replaced the bad air sponge in over a month. One thing to note is that if the smell has been there a very long time, i.e. years, you may have to repurchase this as needed. Suffice it to say, I really like the Bad Air Sponge. It’s easy to use and effective at removing unwanted odor. You can unscrew the lid and leave it on a flat surface to do its job or dump out the contents onto the lid for heavy duty smells. The light licorice smell is pleasant. Plus, whatever the blue stuff inside the container is, it does a good job at clearing up bad smells and is pretty mess free, even when taken out of the container. After the blue content inside dries all up, you can recycle the container and repurchase as necessary. Easy peasy. I highly recommend this product to those looking to rid a space of unseemly scents.

I'm sad to report that I'm a repeat purchaser of this product. Let me be clear, NOT sad about the product itself (it's a lifesaver, or at least a NOSE saver!) but sad that I NEEDED to buy this product more than one time. I'm a live and let live kind of person with animals. As long as they stay OUT of my house. Want to traipse and frolic out in the yard, trees or bushes? Have at it. However my hospitality ends when they try to invade my home. That's just not very neighborly. About a year ago, right about the same time of year, as the temperatures started getting chilly outside, we noticed a, for lack of better words, a PUTRIDLY RANCID smell coming from the general vicinity of one corner of our basement. We followed our sniffers and scoured the entire area but could find no evidence of any physical issue. But the smell got worse by the day. We suspected something had gone to eternal rest within our walls but was just in such a location that we could not find it without ripping apart walls. "Experts" told us that it would take a bit of time but that the smell would eventually go away as the, um, at rest "carcass" dried up. But let me tell you, that smell was, um NOT pleasant. I let my fingers do the walking, across the keyboard, and I came upon this very item. Read a few reviews and literally just ordered it on the spot. It came quickly, I unscrewed the top of the jar and unceremoniously place the jar right there in the corner of the smelly basement. I kid you not, by the next morning, the gaggingly putrid smell was ...better. Not completely eliminated but obviously better. Could be a combination of the critter going through it's "normal process" but I don't care. There was hope that we would hopefully be able to go down there again without having to hold our breath and plug our noses. Sure enough, over the next days and week, the smell quickly seemed to dissipate. Hurray. Giant HURRAY!!! The whole stinky episode faded in our memory .... until this week. Yup. After a brief cool down of temperatures outside, the outdoor rodent community must have decided "Oh hey there seems to be an abode worthy of wintering within. Let's send frail and sickly Grandpa Mouse in to scope it out!" (mind you we have searched for possible holes on the exterior of our house but can find nothing...but obviously we are not rodent sized with keen senses of direction & bodies which can apparently squeeze through minute cracks unseen to the human eye). And Grandpa Mouse obviously lost his will to live and laid down somewhere deep within our walls to join his ancestor of last year. That's my story and I'm sticking to it as I do not even want to entertain the concept that there are actual living critters roaming ALIVE in our walls! But ah yes, that undeniable stench! It's back. And building. So without hesitation & at warp speed, I flew to my computer to look up my purchase history and bought, not one, but TWO of this magic jar of stench ridder! One to place out immediately and one to have at the ready in case more of the mouse family decide to come look for Grandpa Mouse. Bottom line. Buy this stuff. It makes stenches go away.

I had heard about these while I was in China and ordered some from Taobao when I was living there, delighted to find these available in the UK, if a little overpriced. Used in the White House and on Amtrak trains, and they work well in the home too. Very good at neutralising odours, a godsend especially since I'm effectively living and working in the same room during COVID.

Acheté pour me débarrasser d'une forte odeur de caoutchouc (dalles au sol) dans un placard sous l'escalier. en quelques jours, l'odeur est partie et une agréable odeur la remplace !

Good for your new house

Bought four of these for an apartment that stunk like stale grained in smoke (the previous tenant had lived there for 10 years, smoking heavily inside), Even after painting and airing out the stench was still present. The key to these is to take them out of their packaging for them to be fully effective. Put full to half to one-third of these in each room of the apartment, left the windows open for a week in August, which are hot and humid in an attic apartment. The odours had lifted completely out of the apartment, these worked beautifully much better than I had initially hoped.

全然香りがしないよ😓