Why is it so hard to eradicate urine odor in carpet pad, furniture cushions, etc.?
Not to get too Zen-like on you, but sometimes it seems as if urine has a lot less trouble penetrating deep into the cells than odor neutralizer does. Mr. Science has no rational explanation for this, but has experienced the phenomenon himself, even as the inventor of DooDoo Voodoo. Perhaps the trick is to click your heels together three times or something. 🙂 As you might have seen on the About Us page, we own a sizable company that holds patents on a variety of acoustical foam products and we’ve been in the foam manufacturing business for about three decades. As such, we have a pretty intimate knowledge of how foam behaves. Open-celled foam, which is the type used for carpet pad (both prime and rebond), furniture cushions, mattresses, car seats and more, is comprised of billions of microscopic, thin-walled cells. The cells’ walls are open to varying degrees based on the density and composition of the foam being made. It’s kind of like taking a billion tiny basketballs, cutting a chun
