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!

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.

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!)

This extra-hot summer weather doesn’t keep outdoor-lovers indoors, and the excess of insects that are swarming everywhere because of that same humidity and heat can’t keep outdoor-lovers inside, either!

Just because there are bugs everywhere, that doesn’t mean we have to put up with them. Just a few EcoSmart Plastics Repellem and Eco-smartbag products here and there in your house and car will keep almost every single insect away.

Camping? Be sure to bring your Repellem tent mat. There won’t be a single bug in your tent. Put a Repellem trash bag in the bottom of your sleeping bag, and there won’t be any bugs in there, either. In fact, put a Repellem trash bag by your campsite and a Repellem tablecloth on your camp table, and you can leave the fly swatter at home.

With EcoSmart Repellem products, you can also leave the dangerous bug sprays at home, too.  Better yet?  Leave those things at the store.  With Repellem, you won’t need anything else.

Not only will EcoSmart Plastics Repellem trash bags and other products prevent animals from sensing and therefore tearing up and making a mess of your garbage, your Repellem bags will also keep the bugs away.

We had a cookout on the 4th, and everyone commented about the complete and total lack of insects buzzing around us out on the deck. Well, it was because of the trash bags that accumulated as the cookout progressed. With EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem products, you won’t ever have to use dangerous insect repellents that contain poisons; your Repellem tablecloth and the bags of cookout trash will take care of the bug problem.

There are so many reasons why I use EcoSmart Repellem products in my home, but one of them is that I can use them safely around my children, and around food, as Repellem products contain only natural ingredients that are 100% harmless to both. And while the cats and dog stay away when Repellem products are in use, the products won’t harm my pets, either.

Everybody is outdoors a lot in summer, and it’s so nice to be able to BE outdoors and not have to worry about batting away the insects all the time.

This is been the wettest, rainiest, stormiest spring in living memory, and with the moisture come the bugs.  Bugs love wet.  Bugs love humidity.Just mowing the grass, in the bright sunshine, the gnats, mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, and you-name-it come out in droves, sensing fresh blood.  You can spray your body with expensive chemicals and the bugs will just gnaw around it.However, there’s a way to spend some outdoor time without risking dangerous smelly chemicals.  It’s easy. Just tie a strip of EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem around your ankle, and the bugs will give you a wide berth.    Tie a few strips around sticks and place them in your garden, and your tomatoes will be bug-free, too.On your deck, tie some Repellem strips here and there on the posts, and you can sit on your swing or cook out without constantly batting the bugs away.  There will BE no bugs.EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem products are wonderful in any season, but in the hot, humid summer weather you’ll be even more grateful that you’ve got ‘em!They’re absolutely 100% safe to use on your tiny children, too.