Sunday, August 24, 2008

Do you believe in magic?




















Natural Magic products claim to absorb and eliminate odors, and all you have to do is un-lid the container for the natural magic to begin. The gel absorbs odors and “converts them to non-toxic compounds,” which is not quite as scientific as it sounds. I hadn’t known these odors were toxic. Am I in danger when my house smells like old dog? I thought I was just grossed out. Can anything with an ocean scent cover the smell of fish cooking? I should know in a few hours.





















There’s also a natural magic odor air-magnet, which is a solid gel, as opposed to the gelid gel used in the odor absorbing gels. An air magnet seems more capable of dealing with odor elimination than a simple absorbing gel, does it not? Anything capable of molecular bonding has a real edge in the field of odor elimination.




















There’s a special product just for the smell of a used litter box. Oh, it may claim to eliminate other household odors, but this one’s focused pretty narrowly, and often gives other odors a free pass because it doesn’t find them nearly as repellent. It has a fresh clean scent, but no one can say exactly what that scent resembles, other than "not cat box." Scent-naming can be the most difficult part of manufacturing and marketing products such as these. The original odor absorbing gel, above, comes in a scent called natural. That’s what I always tell people my favorite smell is, after ocean.




















Maybe you noticed, with that razor-sharp steel-trap of a mind, that most of these natural magic products promise to absorb and eliminate odors, but not for any specified amount of time. With Odor Blaster Super Deodorizer spray (curiously enough, available only with no scent) you can permanently eliminate unwelcome odors—we don’t care if they’re pleasant or unpleasant, just get them the hell out of here, pronto. This is a great product. Non-scented smells even better than natural, ocean and "not cat box." Suddenly you just smell…nothing. That’s some pretty great natural magic!