How to Remove Skunk Odors from Pets, Cars, Carpet, Clothing, Fabric, Furniture, Houses and Garages

Removing skunk odor successfully!

Those pesky skunks can spray your dog or cat from up to 10 feet away and leave them reeking for weeks! Removing skunk spray odor from a dog is normally a labor intensive task requiring bathing, tomato juice, and/or a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and detergent. The bathing part is pretty normal, but the tomato juice is hard to get out of their fur and hydrogen peroxide and harsh detergents will bleach a dog or cat’s coat and burn their eyes, ears and sensitive mucus membranes and very possibly leaving you a mad pink dog.

To remove that awful smell quickly and safely, simply

• mix 4 ounces of OdorXit Concentrate with
• one gallon of warm water.
• Bathe your pet as you would normally using a vet approved mild soap and then
• rinse your pet with lukewarm warm water.
• Next apply the OdorXit solution to your pet’s fur and leave it on your pet for about 5 minutes.
• Use a wash cloth dipped in the OdorXit Concentrate solution to apply OdorXit to your pet’s face and ears.

Using a downward motion, start at the pet’s forehead and move downward over the eyes when applying solution to your pet’s face to avoid getting product in your pet’s eyes. Do not place product directly into pet’s inner ear either.

• After waiting approximately 5 minutes,
• rinse your with lukewarm water.
• Towel your pet dry as best you can and allow them to finish drying naturally.

Once dry, your pet should smell wonderful and still be able to sleep in bed with you the same night!
And the Best Part is Your Dog Will NOT be pink!

Removing Skunk Smell from Automobile (Inside and Out)

If you've recently been unfortunate enough to run over a skunk or a skunk has found its way into your garage, you probably need to treat both the inside and the outside of your vehicle to get rid of the stench. Start by treating the wheels and undercarriage of the vehicle. If you're lucky, stopping the smell there will also knock out any skunk smell inside the vehicle without you having to treat the carpeting and upholstery.

To treat the outside of the car, spray the undercarriage of the vehicle with a

• yard or deck sprayer containing
• 4 ounces of OdorXit Concentrate mixed with
• 1 gallon of water.

Be sure to cover the entire undercarriage, wheels and lower paint. In order to do this effectively, you'll probably have to lie on the ground and spray the car from underneath it. Allow the mixture to air dry and you're finished. Viola! No more skunk smell here! Running a car or truck through an automatic car wash will make the odor elimination a bit easier. Tractors and Motor Cycles are much easier because they give you easy access to the underbody (save the full faring race bikes).

To treat the interior of your vehicle,

• simply mix 1 ounce of OdorXit Concentrate with
• 20 ounces of water in a
• small handheld spray bottle (on our website now).
• Spray the vehicle's carpeting and upholstery evenly and allow to air dry slowly.

This may need to be repeated depending on how intensely the skunk odor permeated the vehicle.

Removing Skunk Odor from Carpet

Skunk odor on carpeting may be very smelly but it is almost always a superficial or surface contamination of the carpet (unless the skunk actually sprayed the carpet). Odors carried in on shoes and pet paws are easily removed by spraying only the contaminated spots on the floor.

• Mix 1 ounce of OdorXit Concentrate with
• 20 ounces of water in a
• spray bottle.
• Give each spot on the carpet a couple of good spays and allow it to air dry.

It is not necessary to saturate the rug because the contamination is just on the surface of the carpet. Flooding the area may cause the odor producing material to be carried deeper into the carpet fibers and saturate the carpet padding.

Carpet that has been sprayed directly by a skunk may not be recoverable due to the construction of carpet, especially if it has had time to soak in.

Machine Washable Fabric and Clothing

If you were unlucky enough to have been sprayed by a skunk or just had your recently sprayed dog rub against you, OdorXit Concentrate will work on your clothes as well as your skin.

Removing skunk odor from machine washable fabric requires

• adding 3 or 4 caps full of OdorXit® Concentrate to the
• washing machine at the beginning of the wash cycle with the normal
• amount of laundry detergent.
• Allow the wash cycle to complete but delay the first spin cycle for 30 to 60 minutes (Most top loading washers will run to the end of the first wash cycle with the lid open and then stop before the spin cycle starts).
• Front load washers and the new "ultra safe" top load machines are a bit more difficult; (many have a "pause" button too that you should use for 30-60 minutes) or consult your user’s manual for the proper procedure.

After the wash/soak time, close the lid or restart the machine and let the machine finish its normal cycles. In some cases, it may be necessary to run the final rinse twice.

Leather

If you were wearing leathers when you hit the skunk on your motorcycle, leave the bike for later and start right away on your leathers. At the very first opportunity after the encounter, hose your self off, rinse in creek water, or any fresh water you can find. The more of the skunk spray you can remove before it dries the less you will have to neutralize later.

After rinsing yourself off, do the bike. Again, the more you can rinse off, the less you have to neutralize later.

When you get to your OdorXit, spray everything down with a mixture of 1 ounce OdorXit and 30 ounces of water. The odor will disappear!

Dry Clean Only Fabric and Clothing

Delicate dresses, blouses, shirts and wool suits should have the contaminated areas sprayed with OdorXit® Concentrate diluted 1 ounce concentrate with 30 ounces of water. Allow the OdorXit® to dry over night. If the odor returns re-treat with the OdorXit® Concentrate. When the odor is completely eliminated dry clean and press. The odor will not return.

Furniture with Fabric Upholstery

Skunk odor on furniture upholstery can be a bit more difficult because much of the fabric used on furniture is not colorfast. However, with skunk smell on the furniture colorfastness is a secondary consideration to the smell. Before you attempt a furniture recovery project, test OdorXit® on the back of the piece to see what happens. A nice piece of furniture with water marks and no smell is not acceptable either.

Since the skunk odor on furniture is usually a result of a dog that was sprayed jumping up on the furniture before he was deodorized, there is really very little material on the furniture, and washing it will do very little to improve the odor situation. Just spray the contaminated area with OdorXit® (Mix 1 ounce of OdorXit® with 20 to 30 ounces of water) and allow it to dry slowly.

Multiple applications may be necessary to remove all the odor, but it will work.

Skunk Odor Around The House

If you have a large amount of skunk spray under your house as in a crawl space 1 or 2 25 gram Fast Release OdorXit ClO2 packets is very effective at eliminating the odor. OdorXit ClO2 comes as a small amount powder inside a mylar outer sealer which is removed just prior to use and a tyvek pouch that has a very special patent pending seal and internal mambrane to keep the powder safe from you while it produces the chlorine dioxide gas which neutralizes skunk spray on contact.

OdorXit ClO2 can be used inside you house to remove skunk smell that is carried in by a pet or seeps in from under or outside you home. It work on clothing, furniture, carpet or anyplace it has soaked into the interior. Large areas need a 25 gram packet, Bedroom size rooms should be treated with a 10 gram packet. If the Fast Release version is used, you need to vacate the home for 24 hours during the treatment. If the extended release version is used, you can continue to inhabit the home during treatment.

If you have had a skunk spray in your garage, under a porch or steps or even in the crawl space, OdorXit Concentrate can be used as well. Small or closed areas can be treated with a deck or yard sprayer. If you’re trying to treat an area that is difficult to get to like under stairs or in a crawl space, use a hose end sprayer so that you don't have to try and crawl into the confined space or use the OdorXit ClO2 product..

A hose end sprayer (pictured above) is a special plastic nozzle that has a dispensing jar screwed on the bottom. The sprayer mixes the contents of the bottle with the water being sprayed out the nozzle. Some of the sprayers have a variable mixture rates while others (cheaper) do not. Either way works OK for OdorXit applications involving skunk odor. Put about 4 ounces of OdorXit Concentrate in the bottle and fill it half way with water. Spray it on the area where the odor is coming from until the dispenser bottle is empty. The odor will be gone in an hour or so.

Some times when a large amount (relatively speaking) is applied to a small area the OdorXit Odor is rather slow in leaving. The component of OdorXit that produces this smell is the one that neutralizes ammonia and if there is no ammonia to neutralize, it lingers for a while. It can be neutralized almost immediately by misting a 4 part water, 1 part ammonia solution on the area where the OdorXit was applied. Spray only enough ammonia to neutralize the OdorXit (which is normally very little)

Interesting Skunk Facts

Skunk odor, which is not urine or a urine byproduct, is similar to the smell that is produced by de-composing urine (butyl seleno-mercaptan). It is stored in the skunk’s anal scent glands and can be accurately aimed and sprayed up to 10 feet away. Skunks use the powerful smell as an active defense system to drive off aggressors. The only thing this defense doesn't work on is cars, trucks, motorcycles and the occasional farm tractor. But even spraying a motor vehicle has its effect, even if it is only on the passengers in the vehicle.

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