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 home
Is your best bud infesting your house with fleas too? I hate it when that happens! But ever since I used this homemade flea repellent I’m a lot more relaxed and opened about allowing our dog to spend time in the house with us (he’s more of an outdoorsy kind of guy now!).
Ozzy is a super hyper dog, always so curious about every little thing around him so he loves to explore a lot. And one day, while sniffing this and that, he got real close to a big flock of sheep who turned out to be full of fleas. Imagine the horror when he came back home! There were fleas everywhere and we only noticed it when he already got in the house and started scratching like it’s nobody’s business. I decided to take a natural approach instead of the “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 the same method to our house too. Fleas love carpets and since doggy boy spent a pretty nice amount of time on the carpets around the house, there were fleas everywhere. Luckily we don’t have so many carpets so the cleaning wasn’t such a burden.
Do you need a flea repellent for home too? I totally recommend using this homemade flea repellent powder. It 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. The best flea repellent ever!
I sprinkled this homemade flea killer for house on all carpets and left it to work for 24 hours. I even sprinkled it on our mattress. Meanwhile I applied the dog flea repellent on my dog so the fleas wouldn’t have any chance of survival. After 24 hours, I vacuumed, threw the sack away and cleaned the furniture. Then I sprayed some of the natural flea repellent I used for the dog around the house. We got rid of all the fleas because we caught it on time. But if you are not as lucky, you may need to repeat the process at regular intervals.
Homemade flea repellent
Ingredients:
- 4 tablespoons borax
- 6 tablespoons very fine salt
- 6 tablespoons baking soda
- 30 drops lemon essential oil (or lavender, peppermint, tea tree, orange)
- empty jar with a plastic lid
Directions:
- Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl.
- Add essential oils and mix well until no clumps are left.
- Take the jar and pierce a few holes through the plastic lid.
- Pour the homemade flea repellent into the jar, tightly screw the lid on and start sprinkling the mixture on carpets.
- Leave on for 24 hr then thoroughly vacuum clean.
- Clean the vacuum cleaner right afterwards to make sure fleas are completely removed from the house.
I hope this homemade flea repellent for home will work for you as great as it has been for us. Please let me know your feedback if you get to use this powder mix.
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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 🙂
So I will not have to lock my inside pets in another room for 24 hours? This would be awesome if that is the case. I really wanted to try it but was worried about my fur kids.
No need to lock up your babies, Sonia.
The article does mention putting the borax mixture on their dog.
It’s the flea repellent for dogs I made here https://theseamanmom.com/how-to-get-rid-of-fleas-on-dogs/
What are the measurements of each item for the flea powder?
Hi Kari. All measurements are specified in the recipe. Scroll through the whole article and click to page 2 where all the details are.