MCV—August 21, 2025
This stuff is amazing!!! Seriously. It’s a long and painful story, but one of our dogs gave a skunk carcass a thorough sniffing and came home and we didn’t find out until about 12 hours later that the smell was coming from the dog (the front of his snout was saturated with skunk oil and so when we sniffed his body we didn’t get overpowering and obvious evidence of a dog who had been sprayed by a skunk). We thought the smell was coming from a skunk spray outside the house somewhere. When we finally realized that the smell was coming from one small concentrated area on the dog, the blessed pup had already visited every area in our home. The skunk smell hit like a wall every time we entered the house. I sprinkled this stuff in all the bedding as it was waiting to be washed and it only needed one wash to get the smell out, when I had tried with just the laundry detergent it was still there after two washes. Next I spread the granules over the mattress pads and carpet and let it sit for about an hour before vacuuming it up. I made the liquid and put it in a spray bottle and liberally applied it to the couches, bean bags, etc. I love that you don’t have to rinse it or anything!! I also mopped the floors with the liquid, let it sit for a bit, and then mopped it again with water. The wall of skunk smell disappeared faster than I ever thought possible! Within a few hours there was only a faint candy kind of smell leftover from the product. It’s not my absolute favorite scent ever, but it is 10000000% better than skunk!!!! Within a day or two the house was back to its normal smell. I already had a skunk shampoo for the dog so I didn’t use this on him, and I only used this product AFTER the dog was as clean as possible and wouldn’t spread any more odors. Next time (and sadly, there will probably be a next time) I will spray this on the dog before showering him with the skunk shampoo so it can have a good head start on breaking down the oils causing the scent. By some rare stroke of brilliance I had already ordered this stuff (based on the reviews) because I had noticed a lot of dead skunks on the roads by our new house. I am sooooo glad I had this on hand already, now that I went through four bottles I ordered four more to have ready to go when our inquisitive dog makes friends with the local wildlife. Read more
BG—November 29, 2025
This stuff is MAGIC I am a forever customer!!! The smell is fantastic. It completely gets rid of pet stains or any stains for that matter! It completely gets rid of any unpleasant odors! I have 4 dogs and 2 cats so cleaning is non stop for me but with R86 it makes my life so much easier and I literally use this for everything in my house! Laundry additive, cleaning spray, carpet powder, cat litter powder.. you name it! I am so beyond grateful for this product! My only wish is that the bottles were larger. I run thru this little bottle way too quickly. Read more
Paula—August 27, 2023
So the room this was intended for was, seemingly, the cat's litterbox. Like the whole room. It was intense and horrible! Although it said to use 2 oz for the 10x10 room, I used the whole bottle. It definitely sucked out a good portion of the smell. I let it sit overnight. Of course, the next morning, I smelled the R86 instead. Not a bad smell. Kinda like lemons and chemicals. After I vacuumed it definitely was better. Cat stink was still around though as the gal I was working with is sensitive to those smells, it was still affecting her. So I did another overnight sit using another whole bottle. This time, I forgot to vacuum it up the next morning, so the next day after I could smell cat again. (I do not recommend letting it sit more than overnight for this reason) I tried the process again where it only sat overnight once and vacuumed next morning. Much better results this time. Since there was going to be several people in the house shopping, I had to make sure the smell was gone. So when I vacuumed the overnight sit again, I used a whole box of carpet fresh litter box. While that sat, I went thru and febreezed the fabric furniture and curtains and used some lysol disinfectant in the air. Then I went back and vacuumed the pet fresh litter box. HUGE difference! For seriously smelly cat odors, I don't think the R86 on it's own worked, but with the combo of febreeze fabric, carpet fresh litter box, and lysol disinfectant it worked! I truly feel if the odor wasn't so incredibly bad, the R86 on it's own would have been perfectly fine. This was just horrid. All in all, I will definitely be using R86 again!!!! Read more
Kathy Russell—November 5, 2025
Hadn't ever used this product before so tried sprinkling it in odor-filled areas. I have a small dog who goes in and out his dog door and brings in paw prints of whatever is in the yard. I used it on carpet and an upholstered sofa; and, particularly outdoors underneath my bedroom windows where the local cats love to dig. Cuts the smell of urine. I've got an arsenal of sprays. I think that this will fill a niche. Granules have a strong odor but your vacuum cleaner will smell fresh after you vroom them up! Read more
Bailey—September 16, 2024
I had a spare room that i wasn't using and didn't go in much. When i went to go through the room for spring cleaning i realized that somewhere my two cats had been peeing in the room. Even after cleaning the whole room out with nothing in it and after shampooing the carpet and airing the room the smell of cat urine just wouldn't go away. i tried putting this in my room and it helped a little but not as much as i thought for such a small room. I felt like you could only smell it for the initial hour or so and then it would fade away. I even went in the room every day and shook the bowl of it as they said on the directions. Finally, i had to fill the room with glad plug ins and kept this stuff in the room as well and finally it got the smell out. I don't know if this would have worked on its own if i didn't put the wall scent plug ins. The smell is odd...its like black licorice mixed with bubble gum and something else i cant quite put my finger on. For the price, i would say try it and see if it works for you especially because you get two bottles of it so you can use it in multiple spaces. Read more