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Get rid of those nasty fleas the healthy, natural way! Make an easy homemade flea repellent for your home with a few simple, inexpensive ingredients you most likely have on hand.
Homemade flea repellent for your home
Remember when my doggy got under a flea attack? I decided to take a natural approach instead of a “heavy duty” commercial solution, mainly because I love my doggy as much as I love my family. Since I would never expose my family to chemicals when there’s a natural, healthier solution, I thought the same should apply to our dog too. So I made this natural flea repellent.
But for that to work at full capacity I had to apply sort of the same method to my house. Fleas love carpets and since doggy boy likes to spend a great amount of time on the carpets around the house instead of running wild in the backyard there were fleas everywhere. Luckily we don’t have so many carpets so the cleaning wasn’t such a burden.
Do you need a homemade flea repellent for your home too? I totally recommend using this powder which will not put your family at risk and will have great, immediate results (well…within 24 hours). I used Borax, Baking soda, Salt and lemon essential oils from Young Living. Borax and baking soda will kill the adult fleas, the salt will dry up the eggs and the essential oils will make your house smell absolutely divine! Plus if you use lemon or lavender scents, these are natural flea repellents so any possible unwanted visitors will stay away from your house.
I sprinkled this powder on all carpets in the house and left it to work for 24 hours. Meanwhile I applied the flea repellent on my dog so the fleas wouldn’t have any chance of survival. After 24 hours, I vacuumed, threw the sack away, cleaned the furniture and sprayed some of the natural flea repellent I used for the dog around the house. We got rid of the fleas because we didn’t have so many, we caught it on time but if you are not as lucky, you may need to repeat the process at regular intervals.
Thank you for sharing this!! We have been battling them pesky fleas no matter what we do. I will definitely try this out…thank you!
All sounds good I’ll try the flea and spider repellent thank you
Hi Debby. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope the repellents will be as effective for you as they are for us.
I’m not seeing the ratio to use for the borax, baking soda, salt, and lemon oil?
You need to click to continue reading, it’s on the second page. Thanks for stopping by!
I’ve read where borox is leathal to our dogs and cats. afraid to use this.
You won’t use it on your dog or cat, Tami. It’s for your home and then you’re supposed to vacuum clean and wipe down everything so you won’t have any traces left if you’re worried about your indoor pets. I had my dog and two cats in the house at that time and nothing happened to them. One of the cats now has 2 kittens 🙂