Combine warm summer days with a busy cat litter box, and you’ve got a recipe for Stinksville. Even with odour controlling litters, baking soda mixtures, and other odour masking solutions cat owners have to sometime just deal with the unwelcome “bouquet” of Whisker’s last bathroom visit.
Zeolite to the rescue!
Zeolite is a porous volcanic mineral that absorb moisture and gas at about 65% of its own weight. We bought a combo bag set (one large bag and smaller one for the closet) from the Container Store a few months ago, and it’s noticeably reduced litter box odour at least 75%, and still working its magic. And the best thing is zeolite’s effectiveness can be renewed by simply exposing it to sunlight for a few hours every six months. Great for your own bathroom, closet, and fridge too.
We find it ironic that the earth’s past eruption helps control our cats’ present-day eruptions. Yay nature!
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i've had these for two years in closets that have mildew issues and they are great for the mildew smell, plus they have a little moisture absorption ability. you have to renew them once a year by drying them out for a day in the sun. leevalley.com also carries them.
Do you just hang it in the vicinity of the litter?
you hang it where the odors are. above the kitty box, or very near.
another popular brand is Gonzo that is sold at Home Depot. I have a number of these around my home to freshen the air. I think they work by absorbing trace amounts of ammonia from the air. I don't know if leaving them outside in sunshine works or not, I've tried it and couldn't notice a difference.
THANK YOU for this suggestion, I'm going to pick some up tomorrow if I can from Container Store. My husband and I live in an apartment in NYC that has exposed beams and beams + summer humidity = yuck! I'm really excited to try this product.
has anyone tried the stainless steel "soap" deodorizer? People use it to wash smells off their hands, and now a room deodorizer version is on the market.
It sounds implausible, so I'm curious to hear if anyone's had experience with it?
Kim:
It does work but you'd save some money and having to store the new item between uses if you'd just wash a large stainless steel spoon with your bare hands under running water. I recall Alton Brown explaining how the stainless steel attracts smelly sulfurous compounds off the skin (I think it was in the Good Eats episode on garlic).