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I don’t know about you, but while not the cleanest place in the world my toilet bowl is not very smelly either. Well Ecozone have done it again, they have a miracle-eco-product which will solve a problem which does not exist, they now make a “Toilet Smellkiller”, a disc of stainless steel which, they say, kills the smells in your toilet.

It lasts a lifetime, apparently, never needs replacing as it is made from “special high-grade stainless steel”, it contains no chemicals (other than the chemicals used to make stainless steel I presume; carbon, iron and chromium). It and somehow “neutralises odours in your toilet as soon as it comes into contact with air and water, leaving the air fresh and clean again”.

Ecozone say that “it has been tested to eliminate odours” but as always they never say who did the testing or when or where - we are just supposed to take their word for it!

In their own “COSH sheet” [SIC] (which seems to have nothing to do with COSHH at all) they admit that “there is still no scientific evidence as to the mechanism of the odour absorbing effect of stainless steels” however “although the effect exists without a doubt”!! They then go on to make some very wild speculative pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo guesses as to the mechanism by which it “works” but don’t feel the need to offer and evidence as to whether or not it works in the first place.

£15 ($20) for a bit of stainless-steel is very expensive, especially one which which does not do what they say it does… If you feel you can’t live without one, try an old bent stainless spoon instead.

Ecotopia are one of a number of companies selling the Smellkiller, why not ask them how it works? I have, several times, but they choose not to answer me.

Ecozone, makers of the Smellkiller, are pedallers of a number of pseudo-eco-products such as EcoBalls and DryerBalls which I maintain are scams, products with very bold claims and no evidence to show they work.

Ecotopia are a companie selling sell a wide range of “eco” products, many of which are clearly scams but they don’t seem to care - they would like you to think they are trying to make the world a better place but their motivation is clearly it turn a profit.

Do you know of any evidence to suggest that stainless steel absorbs odours? I can find none whatsoever to say it does and plenty that suggest it does not. Please post any links you find below.

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