Just like a charcoal water filter, charcoal briquettes can be used to absorb moisture and odor from the air in your home. … We’ve found them particularly helpful for “old apartment smell” if you’re in an old building or moist smells in basement-level units.

Does charcoal really absorb odor?

Activated charcoal (or activated carbon) is one of the most effective odor absorbing materials – actually it adsorbs. This is because of its huge surface area, which allows for millions of micro pockets and pores. These micro pockets and pores catch smells and lock them in like a vacuum cleaner catches dust.

How does charcoal reduce odor?

Just as a vacuum sucks up dust, activated charcoal filters ‘suck’ odors from the air that passes through Innofresh’s efficient filters. The odors then become attached to the carbon pores and are trapped inside the filter, just like the dust in the vacuum cleaner bag.