Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited) (USD $)	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Statements Of Operation [Abstract]
Gross sales	$ 6,328,343us-gaap_SalesRevenueGoodsGross	$ 6,240,025us-gaap_SalesRevenueGoodsGross
Less: discounts, returns, and allowances	325,914	319,326
Net sales	6,002,429us-gaap_SalesRevenueNet	5,920,699us-gaap_SalesRevenueNet
Cost of goods sold	3,965,780us-gaap_CostOfGoodsSold	3,833,036us-gaap_CostOfGoodsSold
Gross profit	2,036,649us-gaap_GrossProfit	2,087,663us-gaap_GrossProfit
Operating Expenses:
Advertising and promotion	615,872us-gaap_MarketingAndAdvertisingExpense	583,869us-gaap_MarketingAndAdvertisingExpense
Selling and administrative	1,421,546	1,152,025
Total operating expenses	2,037,418us-gaap_OperatingExpenses	1,735,894us-gaap_OperatingExpenses
Operating (loss) income	(769)us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss	351,769us-gaap_OperatingIncomeLoss
Other (expense)
Interest, net (expense)	(10,075)us-gaap_InterestExpense	(11,382)us-gaap_InterestExpense
Other (expense)	(12,522)us-gaap_OtherNonoperatingExpense
(Loss) income before income taxes	(23,366)	340,387
Benefit (provision) for income taxes	7,440us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit	(123,220)us-gaap_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefit
Net (loss) income	(15,926)us-gaap_ProfitLoss	217,167us-gaap_ProfitLoss
Loss attributable to noncontrolling interests		6,431
Net (loss) income attributable to Ocean Bio-Chem, Inc.	$ (15,926)us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss	$ 223,598us-gaap_NetIncomeLoss
Earnings per common share - basic and diluted		$ 0.03us-gaap_EarningsPerShareBasicAndDiluted
Dividends per common share		$ 0.05

Aggregate dividends declared during the period for each share of common stock outstanding.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 505

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (SX 210.3-04)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187085-122770