Fight Hockey Funk With A Charcoal Sack

These last few weeks sure have been a stinker of a time for my boys and their hockey funk!  I am not sure if it’s the ice and the water and all the spit from the ice or if it’s just the water, against equipment, but my goodness, the smell is beyond anything a human being should ever have to inhale! If you are looking for ways to bust odor, you gotta read this review! Charcoal is a great technology and it helps make this product effective.  

I kid you not that seeking a solution to smell are probably every hockey mom and dad’s one big TO DO item.  Hockey clothes cannot get laundered all the time, sometimes games are stacked back to back, or night to night and by the time we get home it is so late that I simply can’t do laundry.  Charcoal technology is what makes the product I tried out a bit different from all the other products I have been trying out lately. 

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We have used a reusable Universal Deodorizer bag that is made out of charcoal cloth.  The premises behind this bag are that charcoal will easily absorb and remove odor.  Here is how it works:  Take the smelly item, we put in hockey gloves which rock smell beyond anything I can describe.  Hands sweat and the gloves absorb the sweat and then smell.  Putting my son’s hands back in those gloves makes me sick because his little hands come out smelling like puke.  What we do is put his gloves right into the charcoal bag, and the Universal Deodorizer bag absorbs the sweat and the odor. 

The pouch itself works great when it is Brand spanking new, but as you use it, it does deteriorate over time and use.  The charcoal acts like a sponge and gets filled up with odor molecules, once this happens, it no longer takes away odors.  Initially, the strong rest of smells get killed off.  There are things you have to bear in mind however in order to keep you bag alive as long as possible and sometimes because I am human, I forget. 

The bag will be most effective the first month of use.  You can put anything you like in the bag from hockey socks to hockey gloves.  As a new purchase the bag offers a great turnaround time of about 8 hours till fresh, but as the bag gets used, is exposed to air it decreases in its ability to fight off stink.  Also, I found that heavy odors were not killed in 8 hours, they were lighter, but they were not eliminated. 

The bag is not big enough to put more than an item at a time.  You need to put the items in flat as possible.  If you put you hockey socks in they should not go in as a ball, rather they should lay flat in the bag in order to have maximum exposure to the charcoal cloth.  Make sure you draw the pouch tight.  If air from the outside gets to the opening, it is less effective.  

You need to know that after you are done using the bag, you have to put it back into the plastic pouch so that the pouch does not continue to collect odors from the air and lose its absorbing qualities.  IF you want to ‘regenerate’ your bag a bit, give it a bit more life, you can use the heat of your dryer.  The dryer heat burns off and pulls away some of the odor molecules and this will provide you with about 90% more performance of the material. The cost on this bag is $29.95, and it did work for a good period of time, but remember that the hockey smell is a strong, smell that really just seems to need beat up over and over again! 

This is perfect for smelly shoes used to go back and forth to hockey, hockey socks, hockey neck guards, gloves and more. 

Don’t expect the product to work endlessly as it does have a life expectancy and various extraneous factors affect the end result of less smell.  You can expect a bit of relief from that hockey funk that there are truly no words for!

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