The ORIGINAL Bad Air Sponge Odor Absorbing Neutralant, 14oz(Packaging May Vary)

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.

These are excellent, work really well, a little pricey but they are really effective. I would recommend these to friends.

It does the job !

Gets rid of even the worse smells

The bathroom in my Mum’s flat developed an overpowering and truly revolting smell after she moved out and the place was left empty. Purchased this item and the odour vanished within 24 hours. The product lasted about five months before we had to replace it. Very impressive.

this item is overpriced for what it does - there are better quality, more efficacious products on the market ... okay perhaps for a small cupboard

This the second time I bought this. Although not actually sure how effective this is as the first time I used in conjunction with a few other things to deal with a damp basement smell coming up into the house and the smell sort of went… which in hindsight could just have been it drying out somewhat as this time round, going into the wetter weather and used in conjunction with charcoal bags, it doesn’t seem to be doing much if anything. A costly error as they are expensive. A cheap bottle of Febreeze is probably more effective, I just had wanted to get rid of the smell rather than mask it.

I decided originally not to review it in the basis that if you can't say something positive why bother, but I have since been inundated with requests fro the seller for a review so here it is. This product is utter rubbish. Ridiculously expensive and doesn't work at all. I'd really like my money back for a mis-sold product.

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 !

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😓

First, let’s talk about the odor of the product. I’m scent sensitive and I know a lot of you are too, so let’s break it down. As many other reviews have already noted, the odor of this product doesn’t last long once the product is in use, maybe 5 days. This is important to really hear and understand if you’re truly sick of whatever crap smell you’re currently living with. Five days living with the light smell of this product was NOTHING compared to the 5 months of frustration I endured living with the stale cigarette smell coming through the vents from my neighbors apartment. The aroma of this product instantly reminded me of those vintage looking tins of French lavender candies. I had a friend from Quebec that ate them all through high school and always had a tin in her backpack. To me, this product smells exactly like those candies, lightly of lavender and a bit sweet like a hard candy shell. Is it my favorite smell? No. Do I want my entire apartment to smell like this stuff everyday? Of course not. But it was a pleasant enough smell that I could endure it for 5 days to see if the product worked, and it’s a pleasant enough smell for the rare occasion, about 3x a week, that I get a slight whiff of it when I walk by the products location in my hallway. I’ve been using this product for about a month now. I’ve had no headaches or sinus congestion from this product, and many fragrances and chemical products can have that effect on me with long term use. Second, let’s break down the odor problem I was experiencing. As I mentioned, a strong stale cigarette smell from the neighboring unit kept permeating my apartment through both the electrical panel and the shared laundry vents. I’d been struggling with this hideous smell for months using two air purifying machines that used up about $30 a month in electricity, and another $30 a month in filter replacements. This was an improvement, but it was loud and expensive and had me tripping over one of the air purifying machine that was placed in the small entryway of my apartment. At some point in my battle, I decided to try to further diminish the amount of odor coming in through the electrical panel by taping an air filter screen over the panel door with easy to remove blue painters tape, and then a thick tarp taped over that (this comes off in about 3 seconds in the event of an emergency). This worked wonders for reducing the smell in that half of my apartment, but even with an air purifier running 24/7 inside my laundry closet, the old cigarette smell from that area would waft into my kitchen and living room often enough to make me really pissed off. That’s when I went on a more serious search for an odor absorber. I’d already tried a couple of unscented odor removing gel products that definitely helped the air purifier in the laundry closet to be more effective, but if I turned off the air purifier the cig smell would return in a couple of days. Reading the reviews for the Bad Air Sponge it became clear it might remove the cig odor all on its own without the addition of the air purifier machine, and not leave a lingering daily fragrance after the first week of use. It was worth $14 bucks for me to try it, and it worked! The stale cigarette smell was completely gone after 3 days using Bad Air Sponge. Here’s what I did: I bought just one jar to try and first placed it in my entry where the stale cig smell tended to linger in the hallway near the bedroom and bathroom. The fragrance of the Bad Air Sponge was light but noticeable at this point and I left it in this location for 2 days until the cig smell was gone and the product aroma was diminishing somewhat. Then I placed the Bad Air Sponge inside the laundry closet on top of the stacked laundry machines and turned OFF the air purifier. A day later the cig smell was gone from the closet and the Bad Air Sponge aroma inside the closet was barely noticeable. My apartment has not smelled like stale cigarettes since. The lingering cig smell never returned to my entryway even though the Bad Air Sponge is only in the laundry closet. The laundry closet still has a slight aroma of the Bad Air Sponge, being a small contained area, but it doesn’t bother me. I’m writing this review because I’m back to order another Bad Air Sponge. I’m hoping that having two in the laundry closet will help absorb the occasional strong cooking smells that come through the laundry vents so suddenly that the one Bad Air Sponge just can’t manage it. I know cooking smells are a concern for others in apartment situations, so I’ll update my review with that info in a few weeks.

First off, the label: it's awesome. Second, I would recommend against sniffing at the product from a distance any less than about 8 inches. If you get any closer, it smells pretty strong...like those deodorizer blocks you clip onto the toilet bowl. After reading the directions, it seems safe to assume that the Bad Air Sponge primarily works like an air freshener, dispersing its own scent throughout the room. The instructions state, "For better efficiency, place product in air stream moving toward the problem area." I normally think of a "sponge" as something that absorbs, in which case I would expect a sponge-like air freshener to be most efficient when placed in the air stream moving *away* from the problem area. But then again, it does look as though there are charcoal granules distributed throughout the waxy, scented substance, and the label uses the appropriate technical term to describe the chemical process of a gas accumulating on the surface of charcoal, so perhaps there is some truth to all the capitalized and underlined words in the first bullet point listed on the label: "Our exclusive DEGHOST® formula will: _Adsorb_ surface odors, _Capture_ airborne odors, and _Draw Out_ Odors from curtains, walls, furniture, carpets etc..." While I'm still a little skeptical of the "Draw Out" claim, I'll take them at their word on the others. After all, the room that smelled like cat pee before the Bad Air Sponge no longer smelled like cat pee after a couple days. As far as I can tell, it seems like your run-of-the-mill solid air freshener, aside from the fact that this one just has charcoal granules (or something similar) mixed into the air freshening substance. After a few days I could already see that it started to shrink as the air freshening component sublimated. I do like that the product is Made in the USA. The one thing that still bugs me a little is that they claim to have a patented formula, yet I haven't been able to find their patent number(s) anywhere on their website or on the product packaging.