We want to know how does Alien Tape work? What is it made of? And, the Pooph product. What is it made of that claims to be edible yet used to control industrial odors. (This assumes these products are what they claim to be.)
If it is the same tape I am thinking of, it is “adhesiveless” tape that can attach to smooth, clean surfaces. It works via van der Waals forces produced by a large number of nanostructures in contact with the wall.
I am not familiar with the other product. I guess you are not talking about just baking soda?
Er, I mean it is glue-free adhesive tape. The tape itself sticks to the wall.
Here’s the search on the pooph product. Lots of claims for removing pet odor.Pooph product - Google Search
This “alien tape” sounds like it’s basically a synthesized equivalent of a gecko’s foot.
I originally heard of something called “gecko tape”, but at the time it was not yet being sold commercially. The general idea was that it was indeed inspired by gecko setae, ideally should be self-cleaning and washable/reusable. “Alien tape” could be a competing brand; Wikipedia also mentions yet another brand called “nano tape”, or it could be the same factory manufacturing them all and they are all the same thing, have not looked into it.
I note that the Pooph product claims to be ‘dismantling odors on a molecular level’ - which has to be the most unremarkable claim for an air freshener product, simply because they all say that - I can’t remember the last time I saw an air/fabric freshening product that didn’t claim to be ‘actually destroying bad smells, not just covering them up with fragrance’
I don’t know if this is the type of thing that “Alien tape” uses, but I observe that those sticky plastic “wall walkers” consists of a flexible plastic with a LOT of plasticizer in it, This page claims that you can make it with a styrene-ethylene-butylene triblock copolymer with plasticizing oils
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=8085
Whereas THIS jerk says you can do it with a vinyl polymer and plasticizer
The alien tape I’ve held in my hands doesn’t feel as sticky as these “wall walker” ones, but mayber they’re not using as much plasticizer. (Plasticizers, by the way, are the components that add flexibility to the plastic
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As for Pooph, if you go to their website they have this to say about their ingredients:
This site claims to give morte definite results:
I don’t know if it’s accurate, but it sounds plausible.
Bah, that guy doesn’t look at all reliable 
It includes both baking soda AND sodium bicarbonate? Did they maybe mean for one of those two to say “washing soda” or “sodium carbonate”?
I’m not exposed to much advertising, but some products claim to trap smells rather than destroy them. Febreze specifically could be said to work that way. It doesn’t eliminate the odors at all, but it does reduce your ability to smell them.
I thought most air fresheners temporarily deadened/blocked the nerves in your nose so you couldn’t smell the odor. Not that they ever admit that in their advertising, of course.
Pooph is worthless
But Febreze is a case in point; it explicitly claims to destroy odours at source:
‘Doesn’t just mask, it eliminates odours’
In other ads, they show an animation of little droplets sucking the ‘smell’ out of the fabric and making it disappear.
This is the way that nearly all air and fabric freshening products claim they are different from all the others (who also claim they are different, in the same way)
Aside, it’s hugely ironic that Febreze talks about a problem called ‘nose blindness’* when that’s literally how their product works.
*They’re talking about sensory fatigue of course
Well, it does say “dramatization” 
. In any case, “eliminates odors in fabrics” is rather weaker and less specific than “dismantling odors on a molecular level”. It’s still misleading, but not quite at the same level. Febreze doesn’t claim to be causing a chemical reaction. I don’t know if there’s any sense that Pooph’s claims could be said to be true.