Maybe I' m just uneducated on the Scent Blocker stuff, but I can' t see how they could be effective year after year. How do you get your scent out of the clothing? Knowing a bit about carbon and its properties, I can' t see how you can get your scent out of it. Carbon absorbs the scent, but once you " fill" the carbon paricles full of your scent and try to wash it out, doesn' t it basically render the carbon in it worthless?

As far as the smell, I would contact someone on this. Thats a lot of money for something thats not supposed to stink.

Muzzyman... you don' t get it out by washing. You get the absorbed ordors out by heating the thing to a high heat forcing the molecules to be released from the carbon. They all can' t be released so overtime the suit does become fully USELESS. They tell you up front the things are only good for a couple years(depends on how much you use it, sweat, climate etc. BUT, it can be rejuvenated to some extent with high heat.

Mike in Texas... I believe your Zip Lock storage bag IS plastic and it' s made from petroleum distillates.

I also use the large ZipLock bags, and have a Scent Blocker suit..... I have not noticed any odors from mine. I did however wash the bags out with scent free soap before I put my clothes in them. Maybe something to try.

The above info was taken from Chemviron.....a very large industrial supllier and distributer of activated carbon. I have used and I am sure many others have also used activated carbon as a filtration device in fish tanks and ponds. Once the carbon fills it' s pores it becomes useless as a filter and as you can see needs to be heated to EXTREMELY high temps for reactivation..........in other words you can' t do it at home in the oven or dryer.

Maybe carbon suits are made of a special type of activated carbon......I don' t know. Just thought I would pass this on when I saw a few comments about using heat to reactivate a suit.

Well, here' s Scent Lok' s official reply:

MIKE,

YOU MAY WANT TO TRY TAKING TO A DRY CLEANERS AND HAVE THEM STEAM THE SUIT, ONLY STEAM, DO NOT LET THEM ADD ANY DRY CLEANING AGENTS TO THE PROCESS. THIS WILL OPEN UP THE CARBON PARTICLES AND RELEASE ANYTHING TRAPPED IN THE CARBON. ALWAYS MAKE SURE THE GARMENTS ARE STORED WHEN DRY NOT DAMP, THEN PLACED INTO AN AIRTIGHT CONTAINER LIKE A RUBBERMAID TOTE OR THE LIKE TO PREVENT ANY ODORS FROM CLINGING TO THE SUIT. PLEASE TRY THIS SUGGESTION AND IF THAT DOES NOT WORK PLEASE GIVE UIS A CALL BACK.

I' ll be dropping it off tomorrow.

I hope that dry cleaner has a steamer that works at 800 degrees C []

Dry cleaning your hunting clothes LOL what next?

Dry cleaning your hunting clothes LOL what next?