Repell-em Blog

EcoSmart Repellem tablecloths are IDEAL for those outdoor barbecues and picnics, whether you’re camping or just eating out on your own deck.  In case you haven’t noticed, the wasps are out in full force now, and so are the flies, gnats, ants, and all kinds of annoying, nasty little bugs.  Whenever you step outside, it’s almost as though you were a bug magnet!  And if you are trying to eat outside, well, bugs like to eat, too!  How annoying!

Unless, of course, you’ve got an EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth on your picnic table or deck table. With Repell-em at your picnic, you’ll be able to concentrate on the food and the company, and not have to worry about being annoyed and bitten. Don’t worry about the ingredients in Repell-em harming your kids or contaminating your food, either; Repell-em products are made of 100 natural ingredients and are absolutely harmless to people.

Your EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth will also keep the raccoons, possums, squirrels, and other animals away from your deck or picnic site.

You can use each EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth several times, too.  That’s green!

Remember this scene from last spring? I’m already planning to do it again!

And why would I go to all the time and bother of winding strips of EcoSmart Repellem around each and every tomato cage in my little railroad flat garden? The answer to THAT question is easy: because it works.

Not only does it work, it works beautifully! Last year, my tomatoes were 100% untouched by insects OR animals! No gnats.  None of those huge scary-looking tomato worms.  The deer behaved as if they couldn’t even SEE all those big red delicious tomatoes hanging there.  Raccoons?  Nope.  Possums?  Zilch.  Even the turtles, which can be a genuine pest, stayed out of the garden.

I can’t even imagine having a garden now, without EcoSmart Repellem.  Just think:  no dangerous chemicals!  No hazardous sprays or powders.  Nothing touching the vegetables or flowers that is in the least bit harmful!

You can even help yourself to a cherry tomato or raspberry and gobble it down, sun-warmed and fresher-then fresh, without a single worry about accidentally devouring an insect.  Your children can wander in the garden, as all children should, and you don’t have to worry about them touching dangerous powders or chemicals!  You can feed your family anything at all from your garden, without the slightest concern about chemicals!

It’s only just a few days now until time to put in that garden.  I’ve got my EcoSmart Repellem strips ready and waiting.

Do you?

My husband is a math teacher, and in his classroom,  he likes the look of large houseplants.  Unfortunately, on Monday of this week - the first day back from Christmas break - he noticed that his large houseplants were infested with gnats.  The janitors told him that if he didn’t take care of that, he’d have to bring the plants home.

He took a Repellem trash bag to school yesterday, cut it into strips, and tied a strip loosely around the stems of each plant.  By the end of the day, there were no more gnats.

The Repellem strips drove the gnats away in a matter of a few hours.  The gnats were gone.  GONE.

I wasn’t surprised.  Remember, I used Repellem in the garden all summer, and I had not a single insect of any kind in there.  Repellem even kept the deer away!

If you’ve got houseplants, you’re going to get gnats.  Well, you’re going to get gnats UNLESS you tie a Repellem strip around each stem.  If you do that, you won’t get gnats.  Or any other kind of insect, either!  People who love African violets also love Repellem products!  People with ferns, or geraniums, or various ivies, all love Repellem products.  No matter what kind of plant you’ve got, Repellem can keep it safe from insects.  Your pets won’t use your houseplants as a salad bar if you’ve got Repellem on them, either.

Remember, Repellem products are 100% natural.  They won’t hurt the plants; they won’t hurt the air in your home; they won’t hurt your pets; and they won’t harm your children.  There is nothing whatsoever in any Repellem product that constitutes a danger to your children, to your pets, to you, or to the environment.  100% natural, and 100% biodegradable, and 100% effective.

No other product compares to Repellem.  EcoSmart Plastics did a great job with it.

Don’t forget the Repellem Contest!  It’s still going on, and you’ve got until Valentine’s Day to enter!

You know, as I glanced out my patio doors at my trash bags which were waiting to be taken to the landfill, I realized that the Repellem bags are red, and the EcoSmart bags are green.  The sight made me think of Christmas.  Together, they represent the very best that a clean, green home can be.

Both bags are made of 100% natural ingredients, and both bags are completely biodegradable.  Both bags keep your home safe from insects and vermin, and neither bag, powerful as they are, is a safety threat to your children.  In fact, your children are SAFER in a home that uses EcoSmart and Repellem products.

I really like my neighbor’s Christmas use of her Repellem bags.

Do any of you have an interesting use for your Repellem products?  If you do, please let us know.  Your idea might be prize-worthy!

We here at EcoSmart love to give our commenters prizes.

Check out what The Compactor Guy has to say about Repellem trash bags!

The Compactor Guy and Terry Feinberg, the Repellem president, worked hard for three years to develop Repellem products, and if YOU use them, not only will you be able to sit out on your deck in any kind of climate, undisturbed by insects, and not only will you be able to set your trash outside the night before the garbage truck arrives early the next morning and not have to worry about neighborhood dogs, or possums, or raccoons, scattering your trash all over the road, you will also never have to worry about the problem the restaurant in the video, on the Compactor guy’s website, has to deal with.

It makes me want to pull my feet up off the floor and sit on them.  Ewwwwwww.

With Repellem products, there will be no rats.  No cockroaches.  No flies.  No gnats.

I’ve been using them myself, ever since I first heard of them, and I’m never turning back.  Repellem trash bags are simply the best.

The BEST.

Really.

Restaurant owners need not fear the ingredients in Repellem contaminating the food, either.  Repellem products are made from 100% natural ingredients, and are also 100% biodegradable.

Too bad that restaurant manager didn’t know about Repellem.   Repellem makes the whole world cleaner and greener!

You still love your cats even after you brought the new baby home; of course you do!  Your furry baby and your new baby seem to be getting along just fine, but you’re a little worried about putting the baby down on your carpet because, well, sometimes Kitty has fleas, and fleas love carpets.

There will be worries enough as your baby grows, but this one?  Repell-em can help with this one.

It’s easy!  Just use Repell-em products in your home!  Repell-em trash bags in all of your wastebaskets.  Repell-em tablecloths under the lovely embroidered tablecloth your grandmother made for you.  Pieces of Repell-em in the closets, and in your pantry, and under your cannister lids.  Toss a few pieces of Repell-em behind the sofa and chairs, and tape a piece under all the tables.  You’ll have to do this every month, fresh, but think of the benefits!

No bugs in your home!  NONE!  Even if Kitty is crawling with fleas, none of them will invade your carpets or your upholstery.  No fleas, no moths, no ants, no roaches, no crickets, no ladybug beetles. . . . your home will be cleaner than you ever dreamed it could be!  Best of all, Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients and are absolutely harmless to your baby!  Most “pesticides” are made of dangerous chemicals, but not Repell-em - it’s not a pesticide; it doesn’t KILL, it just REPEL!  There is nothing in any Repell-em product that you need worry about around your child.

Make your home greener and cleaner with Repell-em products!

No matter how clean you might keep your home, if there are bugs in it, it just doesn’t SEEM clean.   Spraying the bugs with dangerous poisons is risky, especially with children and pets in the home, and besides, most bug sprays help pollute the atmosphere.

With Repell-em products in your house, your home will be truly clean and green.  Repell-em products are completely and 100% harmless, and they are made of all-natural ingredients that will not hurt any living thing nor will they put any pollutants into the air.

How wonderful to have a home that is clean and green!  Bugs might be living things, but most of us would prefer NOT to share our homes with them!  When you use Repell-em products, all of the insects will leave your home and move in with someone else: someone who isn’t as concerned with cleanliness in the home or on the planet.

Repell-em products are safe and effective.  They won’t hurt even an infant, and they WORK.  I use them myself.  I can tell you sincerely, Repell-em products WORK.

One of our readers has asked me about Repell-em’s ability to really keep moths and weevils out of her home.  She’s tired of wasting money by having to throw away infested dog food, flour, etc., and wants to know if Repell-em will really help.  Here is my reply to her:

Dear Charlene,

I think my weevils came in with the big 25-pound sack of flour I bought at Sam’s Club.  They spread to everything: the cornmeal, the cat food, the rice, pretty much everything that was edible and dry.  I tried everything; for a while, bay leaves seemed to work, but they lost their “spark” after a while and the bugs came back.

When I started writing for Repell-em, the product was so new to me, I wasn’t really sure what all it would do besides keep large animals away from your trash, so I did all kinds of experiments myself, right here in my own house.

What I discovered was, that Repell-em was like magic.

Every month, I cut a Repell-em trash bag into squares and place them here and there in my pantry, and INSIDE the bags or cannisters (I tape it to the underside of the cannister lid) and I have not had a single weevil, moth, or any other kind of horrible bug (they’re all horrible if they’re in your house, in my opinion) since.  Repell-em is 100% natural, so it won’t harm anything or anyone, and it won’t poison or taint your food.  It doesn’t kill, even the bugs, but it drives them away!  It really does work.  I just got our winter coats out for the season, and they’re as perfect as if I’d stored them at the dry cleaner’s, and it’s because I hung each coat inside a Repell-em trash bag.  We’ve got Repell-em in the backs of all our closets - it keeps the moths away, and also the mice!

But those pesky weevils were so icky and nasty and EXPENSIVE (think of the wasted foods!) that I decided to see if Repell-em would work on them, and it DID.

I recommend it.  Not because I work for them, because I don’t.  I just write for them.  I recommend Repell-em because I use it myself and it works. If I didn’t believe in the product, I couldn’t write for it.  I believe in it because I use it, every day.  And now, I wouldn’t use any other brand.  Ever.

Thank you so very much for inquiring.

Sincerely,
–Jane

I love to bake homemade bread and pies, so I buy flour in twenty-pound bags.  Few things annoy me more than opening that huge bag of flour and discovering. . . weevils.

But this season, even though weevils flourish in southern Indiana autumns, I haven’t noticed a single weevil in my flour, nor in my cornmeal, or cereals, or oatmeal, or anything else “powdery” and purchased in bulk.  That’s because my large bag of flour has a little piece of wadded-up Repell-em in it, and so do all of my other bags and boxes of things weevils love.

I don’t have to worry about Repell-em products harming my family or contaminating our food, because Repell-em is made of 100% natural ingredients that are completely and totally harmless to people, even to tiny babies!  And even though Repell-em products smell really good, their smell doesn’t “bleed into” any foods you are using the Repell-em in.

So if you are a baker like me, or even if you’re not, try putting just a little piece of wadded-up Repell-em inside LARGE bags of flour, etc.  The weevils won’t bother your cereals and smaller bags or boxes if there is Repell-em anywhere near where you store them.  I keep pieces of Repell-em in my pantry, and everything in there is safe.

Repell-em products are wonderful.  I don’t know how I managed without them!

Bugs love your vegetable bins, and will often make their homes down in the bottom, underneath the potatoes or onions.  We don’t usually notice these insects until we reach into the bin for a potato and stick our hand right into a nest.  What can you do about these insects?  You can’t spray, or use most insect-repelling or killing means, because we’re talking about your family’s FOOD here!

Why not do what I’ve been doing, and line all of your vegetable bins with Repell-em?  I use Repell-em tablecloths for so many different things, and lining my kitchen bins is one of them.  The red tablecloth looks beautiful, just barely showing around the top of the bins, and there is absolutely nothing in any Repell-em product that is dangerous in any way, so it’s perfectly safe for your family’s food to touch Repell-em.

Remember:  Repell-em products REPEL; they don’t kill!

So, this winter, reach into your potato bin without fear of touching anything “icky.”  With Repell-em products, your family is safer in many ways.

Family safety is one of Repell-em’s primary concerns, and our products do their very best to KEEP your family safe!