Recently Danny and I strolled down the road to Nutzy Mutz. Danny loves to visit the store cats, and I was picking up a bottle of Nature’s Miracle. Nature’s Miracle is an enzymatic cleaner designed to neutralize cat urine. Similar formulas are available under a variety of cutesy names.
“But Jenn”, you say, “you don’t have a cat. What do you need Nature’s Miracle for?”. Wetsuits and diaper pails.
Wetsuits
Neoprene wetsuits can get really stinky. Dive shops sell little packets of enzymatic cleaners with cutesy names like “Sink The Stink” for cleaning wetsuits. There’s just enough cleaner for one bathtub of water, and they can cost $2.50 a packet from a dive shop. It’s a convenient way to buy it if you dive once a year like we do, but it’s not as cost effective as it could be.
I bought a 16 oz bottle of Nature’s Miracle for about $5. I threw a couple of squirts into my front loading washing machine (do NOT wash your favorite wetsuit in a washer with an agitator) and washed our neoprene wetsuits, booties, and caps on a gentle cycle. They smell as good as new!
Diaper Pails
As most of my readers know, my toddler has used cloth diapers his whole life. When he was a baby I washed diapers every other day. Now that he’s older he doesn’t use as many diapers, so I wash twice a week. But in the summertime this can result in a stinky pail. You can buy or make air fresheners for diaper pails, but that doesn’t eliminate the built-up odor, it just covers up the smell of the current batch of diapers. Now when I wash diapers I spray down the inside of the diaper pails with Nature’s Miracle. It’s designed to eliminate the odor caused by cat urine, and it does a nice job on human urine too!