Customer Reviews

Reliance Products Bio-Blue Toilet Deodorant Packaged (12-Pack)

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I've been using Bio-Blue Toilet Deodorant for most of the past seven years. I'm a commercial truck driver, and I often get stuck parking for the night at customer locations where toilets are either unavailable, or locked. I've carried a Passport Potty for these situations, and ended up using it nightly to save hikes across dark truck stop parking lots. (I wrote an Amazon review of the Passport Potty a while ago.)

I used Bio-Blue until Wal-Mart stopped carrying it, then switched to the other brands Wal-Mart carried, and began looking for another source of Bio-Blue. I finally found Bio-Blue again at Amazon. Bio-Blue is also less expensive than the other brands I found in my area.

Bio-Blue is packaged as dry granules in small, dissolving pouches. This is ideal when you're traveling, because all of the liquid products I tried leaked if the bottles fell over (and in one case, while still upright.) You drop one packet into the toilet with a small amount of water (to allow the wrapper to dissolve before you use the potty.) My potty was a small model so I'd use one packet about once a week, so one box of Bio-Blue usually lasted me a complete tour on the road. Open the box and there is a ziplock-type bag inside which protects the contents from accidental water exposure. Bio-Blue used to come in a small white plastic tub with just the packets inside. I saved a tub and I transfer the bag into the tub. You might find it in the tub rather than the box shown in the picture.

I've tried a number of products, and all of those other products call themselves 'waste digesters'. These do their job, but they also produce very smelly gas as a byproduct. When you flush a potty, a certain volume of waste enters the tank and displaces a like volume of air back into the environment. When that environment is a small, enclosed space, the results are not pleasant.

Bio-Blue is a deodorant, not a digester, and so it does not produce those extra odors upon flushing. I never really noticed any difference in the waste I was pouring out of my potty, other than the color and the reduced smell for Bio-Blue vs the other (digester) products. Note that even Bio-Blue won't make a potty's waste tank smell like roses if you are silly enough to stick your face in the bowl while flushing. Emptying my potty indoors can stink up the bathroom no matter what product I use, but the Bio-Blue-treated waste was less of a stink problem than the digester-treated waste. Still, it's always better to find a free RV dump station.

We have a small portable toilet that is bacicly a 5 gallon bucket that sits inside a larger container and there is a toilet lit that fits on top of the 5 gallon bucket. There is a removable cover that goes over the toilet lit and contains a space for a roll of toilet paper and then there is a cover that goes on top of all this and mates up with the outsie larger container. We like this form of bio-blue as it is easy to use and easier to take along than a bottle of liquid. One has only to toss in a pouch of bio-blue and it controls odor well so that it is not necessary to empty the portable toilet until one is ready to leave the weekend camp site and head home.

We have used this product for over 11 years at our vacation trailer by the lake. Works the best of anything we had tried before. No measuring, easy to use, toss in and done. Has not hurt our spetic unit. Product used to be carried by Walmart, but when they stopped we started ordering online because we liked it so much.

When I purchased this item, I did not realize it was a package that you just drop in your tank. I was delighted that I had no fuss and no mess. It worked really well in our porta pot.

My rating does not reflect on the performance of the deodorant. This product works great! You can't tell your bathroom was ever "violated". The only reason why I didn't like it is because it is overkill for my type of camping. The total volume of this packet is designed for RV use. I had intention of using portion of it at a time to use on my portable camping toilet. Each packet is a huge overkill for weekend of tent camping with family of 4. Use this product if you have an RV, but if you want to use it for small portable toilet, use a reclosable bottle type. Reclosable bottle type deodorant is great because you can use just enough portion for your weekend trip and save the rest for your next trip. I like to strech my dollar and minimizing use of man-made chemical when camping. Price is great but I don't like the idea I have to use all the content of the packet, each time I go camping.

I would love to review but this is for future use and am sure things will work as described as this was recommended by family member who has cottage and suggested the product to us. Peace of mind is definitely a FIVE STAR if that's any help.

I actually wrote this before at an earlier date I thougnt. Never mind....this is for the record.