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How This 66-Year-Old Cat Mom Finally Eliminated 3 Years Of Stubborn Litter Smell In Under 24 Hours

...without scooping multiple times a day

...without changing the litter or the box

Hi everyone,

 

For almost three years, my home smelled of cat litter no matter what I did.

 

I scooped 4 times a day. 

 

Kept a spotless litter box. Tried everything you can think of.

 

I’m a clean, hygienic cat mom like most, but the smell still never went away.

 

After three years of exhaustion and embarrassment, I eventually did find something that got rid of the cat odor.

 

It made my home smell like a normal home again, as if no cat lives there.

 

But before I reveal what that one thing was, I need to tell you how I discovered it, because without it, the solution won’t make sense.

 

My name is Barbara. I’m 66, recently retired. 

 

I live in Westover Hills neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia with my four cats (Eddie, Luther, Miso, and Josy).

 

They're all neutered and spayed.

 

All healthy, all loved within an inch of their lives.

 

I would not trade them for anything. Ever.

 

Which is exactly why what happened on that day was so hard to swallow.

 

It started with my daughter and the grandkids coming over for the weekend, just like they had many times before.

 

I still remember standing at the front door.

 

But this time, the kids stopped outside.

 

And Samuel, the younger of the two grandkids said...


"Grandma, your home smells like cat poop. It's disgusting. I don't want to be here".

 

That crushed me. It hurt deeply, but in the moment, I just laughed it off embarrassingly.

 

These were my grandkids.

 

I wanted them to run through my front door excited to see Grandma and the cats.

 

Instead, the smell had gotten so bad they didn't even want to come inside.

 

I stood there in the doorway and watched them get back into the car. 

 

Doors slammed shut, one after another.

 

My daughter mouthed "sorry" through the window as the engine rumbled and they pulled out of the driveway.

 

That was the moment I knew I had to fix it... for good.

 

So I did what any of us would do.

 

I started searching for answers.

this search took me down a very expensive rabbit hole

First, I took all four of my cats to the vet... who said nothing was wrong. 

 

Their anal glands were all fine.

 

Nothing going on that would make their litter smell so horrendous.

 

So I kept going.

 

I used Arm & Hammer. Fresh Step. Dr. Elsey's. World's Best. Pretty Litter. Pine pellets. Unscented. 

 

No difference. Nada.

 

After that, I added baking soda. Weekly litter changes. Enzyme sprays. Febreze. Candles. Incense.

 

No luck yet.

 

Later I bought every kind of box that exists.

 

Enclosed, open, stainless steel, even a Litter-robot.

 

Nothing worked to remove the smell.

 

On top of all that, I was already scooping 4 times a day and scrubbing like a maniac. 

 

This was all taking a heavy toll on my 66-year-old body, which was full of back pain and knee ache.

 

Everything that I tried gave me some hope this would finally be the one...

 

But alas, that did not come to pass.

 

By now I wasn’t only physically exhausted from scooping a gazillion times a day.

 

I was mentally exhausted too.

 

I was completely burnt out.

 

I remember sitting in my armchair one evening after cleaning all four boxes.

 

Staring at nothing.

 

Just feeling... so lost. 

 

Then tears started running down my face. I didn’t make a sound. I just sat there quietly crying like a helpless child.

 

Defeated. By cat litter, of all things.

 

I wanted to give up. But I couldn't stop thinking about Samuel's face at the door. 

 

And that night, lying awake, it hit me...

 

I wasn't failing because I wasn't trying hard enough. 

 

I clean constantly. I do everything right, every single day, despite my old age.

 

I was failing because I was fighting the wrong thing entirely.

 

Something else was going on.

 

Something I didn't understand yet.

 

And then that same night, I discovered the missing piece that changed everything.

The Real Reason Why Nothing Was Working 

That night I went back to the cat forums I'd been reading for months and posted everything.

 

Every litter I'd tried. Every box. Every spray. Every hack. And I asked...

 

"Is there anything left?"

 

"Anything I haven't tried?"

 

Most people suggested the same things I had already done.

 

But one woman, Diane, said something which stopped me cold...

 

"Cleaning and changing the litter handles the source inside the box. But it doesn't clear the odor particles that have already escaped into the air of your home."

 

I read that three times.

 

Diane, it turned out, had been through the same exact nightmare.

 

And what she meant was, when your cat uses the litter box, it releases odor particles into the surrounding air almost instantly.

These particles move from one room to another.

 

Through the bathroom door.

 

Down the hallway. 

 

Into the living room. 

 

Into the bedroom. 

 

Into every room... causing your whole house to reek of cat litter.

 

So by the time you've finished cleaning the litter box, the odor particles have already escaped. 

 

That's why the litter switching never fully worked. 

 

It handles the box. 

 

But it does absolutely nothing for what's already floating through your home.

 

That's why the candles and sprays actually made things worse. 

 

Fragrance on top of ammonia isn't fresh air. 

 

It's just two bad smells wrestling against each other in the same room.

 

That's why I could smell it in the living room with the bathroom door closed because the odor particles had already escaped.

Everything finally made sense now.

 

I wasn't failing to clean. 

 

I was cleaning the wrong thing entirely.

 

The boxes were already clean...

 

It was the air that wasn't!!!

so what actually fixes it?

Diane explained this too.

 

The only way to actually fix the problem is to remove the odor particles from the air itself. 

 

Not mask them. Not cover them with something else. 

 

But remove them physically from the air you breathe.

 

She recommended a small device called AirPax and shared a website link.

I clicked on it, and the first thing I see is... it's not another kind of spray, litter or box.

 

AirPax was something new.

 

Something I hadn't seen before.

 

So I was still skeptical. But I was so tired of the cycle, the cleaning, the spraying, the disappointment, the exhaustion… that I ordered it anyway.

 

What did I have to lose that I hadn't already lost in time, money and aching knees?

what happened when i tried it

I ended up getting four AirPax devices since Diane suggested I get one for each of my cats.

 

It arrived a few days later.

 

The setup took about ten seconds, one near each litter box, and that was it.

 

After that, I headed out to my daughter's house to watch my grandkids while she ran some errands.

 

It was such a fun day with them.

 

They pulled out their crayons and insisted we make pictures of all four of my cats, although Miso somehow ended up purple with wings.

 

After that, we built a little fort in the living room with blankets and couch cushions. 

 

For a few hours, I completely forgot about the litter boxes, the odor, the fatigue.

 

Then I got back home around 6pm, walked through the front door and stopped...

Something was different.

 

The smell... was gone.

 

Not masked. Not covered with something floral.

 

But gone. 

 

The air just smelled like... air.

 

As if no cat lived here.

 

I stood there for a long moment just... not checking. 

 

Not mentally calculating.

 

Just breathing.

 

I almost cried, because I don't remember the last time my home didn't smell of litter.

 

That's how long it had been, and I wondered...

 

Could I finally have my grandkids over again?


Could I finally stop being so exhausted physically and mentally?

Could I finally stop feeling ashamed of being a cat mom?

 

That after months of checking, spraying, hoping and being disappointed... I could just stop.

 

But the real test wasn't that day. 

 

It was what happened the following week.

the visit that said everything, but left me with one question

Next week, my daughter came over the with the kids again. 

 

As soon as I saw their car pull into the driveway, I got nervous.

 

I couldn't help but think about the last time.

 

Standing at that same front door while my grandkids refused to come inside because of the stench.

 

Then they got out of the car. I opened the door.

 

And this time...

 

They ran straight inside.

 

They didn't stop or hesitate. 

 

They didn't say anything about the odor. Because there was nothing left to say.

The odor just disappeared.

 

I stood there watching them for a second, playing with the cats.

 

And I got really emotional.

 

Because that was the moment I knew things were truly back to normal.

 

My grandkids felt comfortable in my home again.

 

And so did I...

 

But after what seemed like a miracle fix, I got super curious…

 

And I wondered "how did this actually work?"

 

How did it remove all the stench, with basically no work on my part?

 

So naturally, I looked into it.

why airpax actually worked

I began by searching on Google, which did not get me very far.

So I went straight to the source.

 

I emailed the company to ask a few questions not expecting an answer in return but...

 

To my surprise, I ended up talking to the founder herself, a 49-year-old woman named Mathilda.

 

Who has a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

 

Not only that, before creating AirPax, she spent years engineering contamination-control systems for hospitals.

 

Mathilda told me she has 7 cats herself, and went through the same litter problem which was driving her nuts.


So she used her engineering experience to create AirPax.

 

We exchanged a few emails.

 

In one of them, she explained the technology behind AirPax and why it works.

 

Here’s what she told me:


"AirPax is based on a technology that is used in Hospitals. (IonDrop Technology)

 

But in the most serious use cases, such as ICUs (Intensive Care Units) and Burn units. 

 

Where it's crucial that any air odor, air bacteria and airborne particles be at a minimum – meaning, almost non-existent.

The technology in AirPax is the exact same, but adapted for cat use and shrunk down to the size of a human hand (as the hospital technology is quite big).

 

That's also what made AirPax affordable, the hospital-grade equipment runs $800 to $1,000 a unit. 

 

Shrinking it down is what let me bring the price way below that, so anyone can afford it.

 

And to put it simply...

 

"AirPax Is Overkill For The Stubborn Litter Stench"

 

Pretty crazy finding out I was using hospital technology for the litter odor.

 

But I also had one more concern...

 

Was AirPax safe to use around my cats and grandkids?

 

So I asked Mathilda, and she said:

 

"AirPax carries FCC certification, CE marking, and RoHS compliance, which means it's been independently tested and meets safety and environmental standards in the US and internationally."


That put my mind at ease.

 

Then she walked me through how it actually works:

 

"You start by simply plugging AirPax into an outlet, and turning on the switch. Once AirPax is turned on, it starts to release something called "Negative Ions" into the air.

 

To fully grasp how negative ions work, we need to take a brief physics lesson.

As you learned in physics back in school, opposite charges (positive & negative) attract towards each other.

 

Like magnets.

 

The litter odor particles in the air are "positively charged".

And as I said before, AirPax releases negative ions, which of course... you guessed right... are "negatively charged".

 

So the odor particles (positively charged) and the negative ions (negatively charged) attract towards each other and come together like magnets.

More and more negative ions get attached to the odor particles.

When enough negative ions are attached to the odor particles, they simply become too heavy to stay airborne.

And then... the odor particles (because they become so heavy) fall out of the air you're breathing, and settle onto the floor.

If they fall out of the air, the air becomes free of the odor particles.

 

If the air becomes free of the odor particles, your home becomes free of the litter stench, simple as that.

Therefore, your home stops smelling of cat litter, you can end the endless cleaning and enjoy a fresh-smelling home for once."

 

I must have read that email four times over, just letting it sink in.

 

And I was so happy with AirPax that a few weeks later, I went back to buy two more.

 

Except...

 

They were sold out.

 

I ended up waiting nearly two months before they came back in stock.

 

When they finally did, I ordered them right away.

 

So now I keep AirPax plugged in throughout my home.

 

And here's the thing... if it can make four cats basically invisible in a house this size, I don't see why it wouldn't do the same for you.

 

Anyway, that's not even the best part.

 

There was yet another thing which surprised me quite a bit...

another shocking thing about airpax

When I was buying AirPax, one of the things which was outrageous was...

I was offered a 365-day refund guarantee.

I don't think I've seen many products or companies offer such a guarantee, which says, in their own words:

 

"You can get a full refund on AirPax for any reason (or no reason at all), within 365 days of purchase, and you get to keep AirPax even if you ask for a refund."

 

I was like, "Okay, so either AirPax will work for me or I get every penny back."

Amazing, I won't lose anything then.

but here's something even better

If you've got more than one cat or litter box, what I'm about to tell you will save you some real money.

 

Right now, AirPax is running special multi-unit offers.

 

Where you can buy 1 and get 1 free.

 

Buy 3 and get 2 free.

 

Or buy 5 and get 4 free.

 

I actually wish that offer had been around when I bought mine. Because I would have saved a lot of money.

 

But Mathilda told me these bundle deals aren't permanent.

 

Once the promotion ends, the FREE units go with it.

 

So if that offer is still showing on the website when you check...

 

I'd take advantage of it while you still can.

 

Not only that, Mathilda said she's offering 5 additional surprise gifts and... knocking an extra 40% off if you check out today.

 

Also, here's the part I want to be honest with you about. 

 

If you don't do anything, nothing changes. 

 

Every day you wait is another day of scooping three times a day. 

 

Another day of the stench plaguing your home.

 

Another day of you not inviting people over. 

 

Everything I just mentioned, the free units, the bonus gifts, the extra discount. 

 

I'd go see if it's still available.

 

Because you deserve a home that feels like yours again. 

 

This is not your fault. 

 

I've left their website below so you can claim your FREE AirPax devices and an extra 40% off.

 

Here it is.

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Sincerely, 

Barbara MacDonald, 

Richmond, Virginia.

 

P.S. I actually just checked the site again, they still have some FREE units bundle remaining. No idea for how much longer though, I'd go grab it now while it's still there.

 

P.P.S. One more thing, that extra 40% off Mathilda mentioned is only good today. Tomorrow it's back to the regular price. If you're on the fence, that alone might be worth deciding today instead of putting it off.

 

P.P.P.S. I know how this sounds. I've wasted money on enough products that promised everything and delivered nothing. But that guarantee is exactly why I gave it a shot anyway. Nothing to lose, and everything to gain. I'm glad I did.

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