Customer Reviews:
 Bio-blue more pleasing to the nose than other potty treatments October 15, 2009
Joi L. Ellis (Charleston, IL United States)
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
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.
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