Repell-em Blog

It’s a bright, brand-new year, and why not begin it with a clean, green home!

One way to help keep your home safe, clean, and green is by using EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem products.   Insects and unwelcome animals won’t even be tempted to enter your home if your wastebaskets and trash bags are lined with Repellem bags, or if your tablecloths have a Repellem tablecloth under them.

Put a Repellem bag or tablecloth in each closet and you’ll never have spiders in your shoes.  Make sure your baby’s room has a Repellem bag in the wastebasket and diaper pail, and you’ll never have to worry about bugs or mice in there.  Put a piece of Repellem plastic under the silverware tray in your kitchen and you’ll never have to worry about ants.  Line your cat’s litterbox with Repellem and you’ll never find bugs in there.  Your cats will still use the box, but they won’t linger long enough to make a mess OUTSIDE the box!

Put a piece of Repellem on the bottom of your laundry hamper.  Put some Repellem under your sofa cushions.

It might be right smack in the middle of winter, but spring is right around the corner, and spring means bugs and mice.

Not if you’re a Repellem home, though!

Thanksgiving is in just a few weeks, in case any of you aren’t paying attention to the calendar.  In just a few weeks, families will be gathering and feasting, and disposing of more goopy food waste in one day than all of them combined accumulate in a week.

Dogs, cats, raccoons, and possums everywhere are licking their lips in anticipation.

People who use regular trash bags to hold that turkey carcass and all the greasy leftovers won’t be able to put out their trash until right before the garbage truck arrives, a few days after Thanksgiving.  In the meantime, that flimsy plastic bag of heavy, oily leftovers will have to stay in the kitchen or garage, slowly leaking and smelling like, well, gross day-old meat.  Unrefrigerated.

People who use Ecosmart Repellem trash bags won’t have any problem at all.  Repellem trash bats are thick and heavy, and nothing you put on the inside will leak through to the outside.

When those regular trash bags go out on the curb, every animal in the vicinity will know it, and they’re already making plans to use your yard as a buffet.

Those same animals won’t even know it when you put a Repellem trash bag out on the curb.  The 100% natural ingredients in Repellem products render those bags invisible to all animals and insects.  The neighborhood dogs will walk right past your decaying feast-in-side-the-bag; no odors or substances can penetrate the thick, heavy, substantial Repellem bags.

I suppose it’s odd to discuss trash bags at holiday time, but hey.  Holiday time is when we have the yuckiest, heaviest, greasiest garbage, and knowing that your Repellem bag can “take it” is a great relief.

Ecosmart Repellem products are great to buy for yourself, and they also make a great gift for others. Now that I can get them from Alice.com, it’s even easier! Some people might think household products like Repellem would be an odd gift to give someone, but I think like this: if I myself would love to get something as a gift, maybe others would, too. So far, I’ve given Repellem trash bags to many friends and family members and the gratitude is genuine.

Seriously. And Alice.com will deliver wherever you ask them to deliver!

When you order anything from Alice.com, the shipping is free, and your Repellem products (and anything else you order from there) are delivered right to your door. How easy is that? When you open your box, there are your Repellem bags, along with your detergent, cat litter, and anything you’ve ordered.

I generally order big, heavy things from Alice.com to save myself the hassle of lugging them around in the store and loading/unloading them from the car. Repellem products aren’t big or heavy, but the convenience of having them delivered right along with other useful household products is just too good to pass up.

I buy Repellem bags in two sizes: large trash bags and the smaller kitchen-size bags. We had a terrible ant problem in the kitchen this super hot summer until I got out the Ecosmart Repellem bags; now, when I clean my sink and countertops, they stay clean until the people who live here mess them up. I haven’t seen a single ant since I put out the Repellem bags!

Neither has anyone who got Repellem from me as a gift, either.

Repellem products also smell wonderful; it’s like having expensive candles without the expense or danger of burning down the house!

This summer has been hotter than. . . usual, and we humans have spent as much of our time as possible indoors instead of outside. No cooling breezes, no soothing rain. . . it’s been an unusual and dangerous summer for people.

If you’re an insect, however, the summer has been perfection. Many bugs prosper in the heat, and our cats and dogs have required more than the usual amount of flea-and-tick treatments.
Inside where it’s cool might be more comfortable for people, but the bugs are quite aware that inside is where the opportunities are. Our clothing, our bodies, our carpets, our furniture, and most especially, our kitchens, are seen as big playgrounds for the huge populations of this summer’s insects!

The ant population, for example, is big in any season and circumstance, but right now, the ants are everywhere. EVERYWHERE. In our house, for example, the ants have pretty much taken over the kitchen sink and countertops, and nothing we tried seemed to put a dent in it. We used sprays, and poisons, and powders, and natural “green” solutions. We called three different exterminators. The ants came back every time.

Then I took a few Repellem trash bags and put them behind the stove, under the sink, and behind the refrigerator. I cut up a few Repellem bags and put the pieces here and there in the pantry, silverware drawer, and cabinets.

As I type, there are no ants anywhere to be seen. Repellem repelled them.

It works, folks. Repellem products are better than anything else on the market today, and believe me, we tried everything this summer. Nothing works like a Repellem product.

We live in town now, and on Trash Day, our small street is often littered with other people’s trash. The dogs who live here consider Trash Day to be Buffet Day, and the sights and smells from other people’s trash is just too much for their pets.

Our trash is never bothered, though. Now, our trash is just as gross and smelly as yours, but the difference is this: We use Ecosmart Repellem trash bags, and this means several great things.

First, we never have to worry about animals ripping into our trash and scattering it all up and down the street. Repellem products don’t harm animals, but they do repel them. Repellem products are made of 100% natural ingredients which combine to produce an aura that tells animals to “move along; there’s nothing you want here.” Seriously.

Put an expensive Glad or Hefty trash bag full of smelly garbage out on the street and the local dogs will come running. Put a Repellem trash bag full of the same smelly trash out on the street, and it will still be there, untouched and pristine, hours later. Repellem products can’t be smelled or perceived by animals. Period. And by “animals,” I also mean insects.

The other day, several small children playing in a yard were stung badly by wasps that had been buzzing around a torn trash bag. If this family had used Repellem bags, wasps would not have been found anywhere NEAR their yard.

Safety. Cleanliness. GREEN safety and cleanliness. Absolutely safe. Genuinely clean. Totally green.

Only Ecosmart Repellem products can promise all of the above.

If you have both cats AND dogs, you probably already know what the presence of a litter box does to many dogs – they think it’s Buffet Day, every day.

This is pretty gross.

However, if you take a Repellem trash bag or tablecloth and wrap it around your cat’s litter box, the dogs won’t even know the box is there! Now, remember, cats are repelled by Repellem, too, but somehow, the bag-around-the-box thing doesn’t seem to bother the cats; they just jump it and go into the litter box, do their business, and jump back out. (Surprisingly, though, your cat won’t see your trash-filled trash bag sitting out on the curb, nor will your dog. Or the neighbors’ pets. Awesome, huh!)

The dog, on the other hand, ignores the Repellem-wrapped litter box as if it wasn’t even there. Which, because of the Repellem, it isn’t, to an animal or insect.

In other words, Repellem will keep the dog OUT of the litter box, but it won’t bother the cat, since the cat leaps over obstacles to get in there anyway.

“But my pets love to bite and gnaw on plastics!” you might wail. No worries with Repellem, folks. Even if your pet somehow manages to bypass the repellant features and give the product a chew, it won’t last long, AND it won’t harm your beloved pet. Ecosmart Repellem products are 100% natural, harmless ingredients, the combination of which just happens to be repellent to insects and animals.

Speaking of insects and litter boxes – with that piece of Repellem around the litter box, you won’t be horrified by any bugs in the box, either. Not even flies!

Pet owners and Ecosmart Repellem products belong together!

Rumor has it that the coming summer is going to be an extra-hot one, and when the summer is extra hot, the insects are extra-populous.

An excess of bugs means a lot of bugs competing for your sweat, your pets, and your potato salad.

With animals and children in the house, you don’t want to use sprays, poisons, traps, or anything that might harm – or worse – a child or a pet.  You don’t want to use anything in your home that will contaminate your surfaces or your food.

With all of this in mind, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem products are exactly what you need to keep your home safer, cleaner, and greener.

EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem products are made of 100% biodegradable, 100% safe, 100% natural materials; there is nothing in our products that is harmful to humans or animals.

Animals and insects are, however, absolutely repelled by Repellem.  They won’t come near your family or your home, and this will make your house even cleaner and safer!

EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem products are the ideal animal and insect repellants for your precious home and your even more precious family.

Order yours today, before the hot weather hits!

The winter has been so mild that many of us haven’t even worn our warmest winter coats yet, and now it’s almost time to pack them away again!

My coat still smells faintly of Repellem, which is a good thing because Ecosmart Plastics and Repellem products smell really good.  It’s not an “insecticide” or chemical kind of smell at all; it’s more like expensive candles, only much fainter.

When our coats and sweaters retain a little of the smell, it’s awesome.

Let’s all make sure we’ve got plenty of Ecosmart Plastics and Repellem products on hand so we can pack away our winter coats and woolens soon.

Tired of giving the same kind of gift year after year? Well, why not depart from tradition somewhat this time, and give your family and friends something that they will not only USE, but also benefit by?

Ecosmart Plastics and Repellem products will help keep your loved ones’ homes or businesses cleaner, safer, and free from insects and vermin!

Repellem trash bags are a fabulous gift for a daycare director, or your child’s teacher, for example. Our trash bags will help ensure that small children can crawl and play SAFELY on the floor, and that even areas that are hard to keep clean – small children do that, you know – you won’t have to worry about ants, roaches, or mice.

Another great quality of Repellem bags is their safety; the bags are made of 100% recyclable materials, and are also 100% safe, even if a child tries to eat one!

Here is a complete list of what Repellem bags are composed of, in case you’re wondering.

A box or two – or a case – of Repellem trash bags would be a much-appreciated gift for anyone who doesn’t really want bugs or mice, and isn’t that everybody you know?

It’s almost time to carve your jack o’lantern for Halloween! Usually, October isn’t all that cold, so the pumpkins start to crawl with bugs fore a few days have gone by. This, of course, makes the pumpkins look awful and add an ick factor to your home that doesn’t have anything to do with a holiday.

EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem has a better idea.

Carve your pumpkin as usual, but scrape out a little more of the pulp that you ordinarily would. Cut out the face – make it scary!

Take a Repellem trash bag and line the inside of your carved pumpkin with it. Then, put a battery-powered fake candle in the center – a big wide one looks best. DO NOT use a real candle with a plastic trash bag inside the pumpkin!

When you put this red-lined jack o’lantern on the porch or front step and turn on the battery-powered light inside it, step back and admire: The pumpkin’s face will glow and bring out the red of the lining, and the look is unmistakably HALLOWEEN! Plus, your pumpkin will not become infested with insects at all; the bugs won’t even know it’s there, and this means your pumpkin will stay fresh longer, too.

Those glowing red eyes will bring some oohs and aahs from your little trick-or-treaters, too.

I’ve been doing my jack o’lanterns this way for four years now, and each year look creepier With Halloween pumpkins, that’s exactly the effect I want!

(Remember: no candles! Battery-powered lights only!)