1. Activate your clothing*
Dry use: Put your hunting clothes in a bag, add SCENTBUSTER DUST, and shake it up. It can be used even with activated carbon or other scent elimination clothing. Leave the clothes and dust in the bag until you use it. Make sure you open the bag outdoors, both for scent reduction and to avoid staining your house or car with the black powder. Every time you head to the field, shake some into your hat, socks, gloves and felt boot liners, and shake it up.
Wet use: Put 2 or 3 tablespoons in a gallon of water. Mix thoroughly. Dip clothing into the solution and work the water in, then wring out and hang to dry outside. If you remove garments immediately after the hunt and put them into a sealed bag or bin, they can be used for weeks. It is advised that you sprinkle dry dust into the bag, and shake the garments up in the bag before and after using.
SCENTBUSTER DUST treated clothing should never be put directly into a dryer. It is not designed to be reactivated in a dryer. To reactivate the clothing, first wash it to remove the old SCENTBUSTER DUST, then retreat the garment with either the dry or wet method.
2. Store your clothing
After washing your clothes in scent free detergent, add SCENTBUSTER DUST to your storage container. It can be used even with activated carbon or other kinds of scent elimination clothing.
3. Replace air drying
The ideal way to handle clothing after washing is to hang them outside for several hours to let the scent diffuse out of the pores of your clothing. This is difficult or impossible for many hunters. If you put the clothes in a plastic bag right away, the scent will just stay trapped in the bag. But, if the bag contains SCENTBUSTER DUST the scent molecules will be trapped in the dust as they come off. You will get the same benefit as air drying. Even better, because air drying can add neighborhood scents to your clothing. This won't happen using SCENTBUSTER DUST.
4. Treat your storage bags
If you have an activated carbon storage bag, shake SCENTBUSTER DUST inside it and add a tremendous amount of scent elimination power to the bag. Home dryers do reactivate carbon, but not completely.
5. Treat your pop-up blind with SCENTBUSTER DUST.
Add an extra layer of protection when using a pop-up blind. Shake SCENTBUSTER DUST in your pop-up storage bag. Rub it onto the surface of the pop-up. Always store your pop-up in SCENTBUSTER DUST.
6. Treat your equipment with SCENTBUSTER DUST.
Tree saddles, bow releases, gun slings, ropes, knife sheaths, belts, leather boots, any thing with pores can benefit from having pure activated carbon rubbed into the pores.
7. Rub it on your skin.
We rub it on our face and hands. First, we wet our hands with a liquid scent reduction product, then we rub it into the skin. It is non-toxic although you should avoid breathing the dry dust. Be sure to still wear a face mask and gloves to keep it from rubbing off during the hunt!
8. Make black paint.
When you add the carbon to water and stir, it makes a black solution. Dip your clothing in it. Paint it onto surfaces. Rub or paint it on your skin. Paint your enclosed stand with it, or your pop-up. When you use it on your skin, be sure to wear a face mask, gloves, or other clothing over it to keep it in place.
9. Make carbon spray. Rather than paying huge dollars for the small amount of carbon in over the counter sprays, mix up SCENTBUSTER DUST with water at about 1/2 tablespoon per quart and put into a spray bottle. Adjust the concentration if the dust clogs up your sprayer.
*Caution, SCENTBUSTER DUST is black carbon powder and may stain your clothing. Its use should be avoided with white or light colored outerwear. If you don't want it stained, don't put SCENTBUSTER DUST on it. However, we like to play in the mud and get dirty. Who cares what you look like when you are hunting? Also, avoid breathing the dust.
