Mothball smell - help!

Jen · #1 07-10-2008, 06:33 PM

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#2 07-10-2008, 06:37 PM

Have you tried Febreze? Febreze has always hid the smell for me.

Leslie Anne · #3 07-10-2008, 08:59 PM

I love Febreze. I use it on everything. I've heard of other odor products like Zero Odor but I've never tried them. I just came across this though: http://www.scoe10x.com/Scripts/default.asp Might be worth a try.

#4 07-10-2008, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

I love Febreze. I use it on everything. I've heard of other odor products like Zero Odor but I've never tried them. I just came across this though: http://www.scoe10x.com/Scripts/default.asp Might be worth a try.

I use it on everything too.

My BF smokes in his apartment, and if it weren't for Febreze, everything would smell like smoke. Same with my mom's house everytime she decides to fry fish for dinner. I spray that isht like there's no tomorrow and it's always worked for me!

summer_gphib · #5 07-10-2008, 10:50 PM

I love Fabreeze, but Zero Odor is fantastic. What I like about Zero Odor is that the smell doesn't come back, and there is no "fresh scent." I used it a lot when Forrest would be a very bad puppy, and literally it took the smell away. It took a few days for the enzymes to fully work, but it's the best thing I've ever found for odors. And I should know. It took 6 years before Forrest was fully housebroken.

ETA it's a lot quicker to buy zero odor from ebay than it is the zero odor website. Their shipping is pretty slow unless you expediate it.

Xidelt · #6 07-13-2008, 09:23 PM

doesn't heloise suggest activated charcoal wrapped in clean newspaper?

AGDee · #7 07-13-2008, 10:21 PM

Do the febreze made for fabrics rather than the air febreze.

nittanyalum · #8 07-13-2008, 10:37 PM

My grandmother always told me that nothing but fresh air and time could take care of mothball smell.

honeychile · #9 07-13-2008, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Xidelt

doesn't heloise suggest activated charcoal wrapped in clean newspaper?

I've heard that, too. Tried it on other things, but never mothballs. I think they should be banned!

I'm also a fan of Febreze. I even take it with me on vacation, in case the hotel room smells nasty. I've yet to see Febreze (or Ozium) fail.

Angeelo · #10 07-14-2008, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

Do the febreze made for fabrics rather than the air febreze.

I'll second this, as I fixed a similar problem with this (although different origin to the smell).

sigmadiva · #11 07-14-2008, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by summer_gphib

It took 6 years before Forrest was fully housebroken.

/hijack/

Thanks for this. My little dachshund is just over a year old and he has still not quite figured it out yet. He's 50/50 on letting me know when he needs to 'boom-boom', but not at all when he needs to tinkle.

/end-hijack/

As for the topic - I bought an old piece of furniture that reeks of moth ball smell and the guy who sold it to me said to wipe it down with turpintine (?sp). I did and it did not work.

icelandelf · #12 07-15-2008, 02:18 PM

The only thing I can think of to eliminate mothball smell is to air out your jacket, particularly in the sun with a lot of fresh air. I have a nice wool car coat that my mom gave me but smelled like mothballs. I couldn't put it in the wash, so I hung it for a month on our back screenporch and the odor eventually went away.