Repell-em Blog

. . . and grilling time means outdoors time.  This extra-humid and extra-pollen-ish summer has more than its share of happy and excited bugs, but when we had a cookout this past weekend, we weren’t bothered a bit by insects - not a single, tiny bit.

We didn’t use any dangerous bug sprays or smelly candles, either.  It’s not good to use poisons around food, pets, or children, and a typical cookout has all three.  All we did was put an Ecosmartplastics’ Repellem tablecloth on both round deck tables, and a couple of Repellem trash bags in the wastebaskets.  We’d need tablecloths and trash bags anyway; why not use the best: products that not only serve their usual purpose, but also keep away almost every kind of insect imaginable?

Our cooking could have been plagued with insects, attracted by the sweat, blood, and smells of the cooking food, but it wasn’t.  We didn’t have to sit at the table eating with one hand and swatting bugs away with the other.

We didn’t have to sit and put up with the overwhelming odor of anti-bug skin sprays or citronella candles, either.  All we smelled was food.

Ecosmartplastics Repellem and Eco-Smartbag products are versatile and so very, very useful.  Why put up with insects at your picnic when you can keep them away with a tablecloth?  Why put up with mice and roaches in your kitchen trash can when you can keep them away with a trash bag?

I have used Ecosmartplastics Repellem and Eco-Smartbag products ever since I first heard of them several years ago.  They are far superior to any other kind of plastic product I’ve ever used, and they are the ONLY ones that keep away insects and wild animals.   100% biodegradable and made of 100% natural products, Repellem tablecloths and trash bags will turn your buggy summers into insect-free vacations.

EcoSmartPlastics’ Repellem & Eco-smartbag products are among the most versatile products I’ve ever used!  Not only do these products do everything they’re supposed to do; they do much more!  It seems as if every week I discover more things these products can do, and do WELL!

How many trash bags have you ever bought that will not only be receptables for your garbage and trash but will also keep insects and animals away from your garbage and trash?  Or be made of 100% recyclable, biodegradable, natural ingredients?  Or keep your winter woolens safe from moths?  Or keep the deer and bugs away from your garden?

How many outdoor tablecloths have you ever bought that will also keep the mosquitoes and gnats away from your picnic?

How many such products have you used in the past that caused you to worry and hesitate to use in or near a child or a child’s room for fear of poison, since small children chew on pretty much everything?  With Ecosmartplastics Repellem products, you won’t have these worries.  100% natural, harmless ingredients.

Ecosmartplastics Repellem products don’t even harm the insects and animals it repels; they just, well, REPEL them.

Even the thickest, finest, and most expensive trash bags can not be set outside the night BEFORE the trash truck comes; dogs can smell that feast from miles around.  However, with Ecosmartplastics’ Repellem & Eco-smartbag products, you CAN set your trash outside on the curb the night before because animals simply can not detect the presence of even the stinkiest garbage if it’s inside a sealed Repellem bag.  How nice not to have to rise at dawn to run after the garbage truck with your bags of trash!!

There are more uses than these for Ecosmartplastics’ Repellem & Eco-smartbag products; check this blog each month for updates!  In the meantime, check our archives for all kinds of ways these products can be used.

Many of us have resolved to have a cleaner and greener 2010, and one way to begin is to use EcoSmartPlastics Repellem and Eco-smartbag products!

So many household products these days are made of chemicals created in test tubes in laboratories, and we have to be careful to guard our children and our pets from contact with them.  Not so with EcoSmartPlastics Repellem and Eco-smartbag products!!!

EcoSmarPlastics Repellem and Eco-smartbag products are made of 100% natural ingredients, each ingredient absolutely harmless to all living things.  (Repellem REPELS, it doesn’t kill!)  Your small children are completely safe in a home that uses EcoSmartPlastics Repellem products.  Not only will your home be free of insects; you will not have to worry about babies or toddlers being harmed by contact with dangerous products!  The ingredients in EcoSmart and Repellem are SAFE!!!!

You won’t have to worry about your pets getting into the garbage, either.  With Repellem trash bags, your dogs and cats won’t even know you’ve GOT garbage!  And when you set your full trash bags outdoors, possums and raccoons won’t be able to sense them, either.

Let’s all begin 2010 with a cleaner, greener, SAFER home!

It’s been a lovely day today: sunny and breezy and very, very hot.  The heat doesn’t bother me, but the bugs drive me CRAZY!

Why, then, was I sitting outside on my deack?

Because I had an EcoSmart Repellem tablecloth on my outdoor table, and there WERE NO BUGS.  Not one.

No mosquitoes.  No flies.  No gnats.  No wasps.  No ants.  No chigger bites on the two borrowed neighbor toddlers.

This is especially significant because we were eating canteloupe at that outdoor table, and we left the juicy rinds outside while we went to water the rosebushes.

When we got back to the mess on the table, there were still no insects of any kind on that mushy, slushy, strong-smelling (Y’all know what canteloupe smells like!)  pile of ickiness on our four plates.

I cleaned up the mess, threw it into an EcoSmart Repellem trash bag along with our supper leftovers, which included several corncobs and some chicken bones.  In an ordinary trash bag, this would have been an animal’s and an insect’s dream-come-true, but that trash bag has been sitting outside on the deck for hours now and nothing has touched it.

Oh, and those less-than-half-price EcoSmart Repellem trash bags I ordered from Cabela’s last Monday?  They arrived in three days.  THREE DAYS.  Whatta deal.

We all want to be more environmentally conscious, and we all want to help keep our planet clean, but what can just one person do that would make any kind of difference?

Lots of things!

We can use and re-use simple things like aluminum foil.  We can carry re-usable grocery bags.  We can plant gardens.  We can recycle our cans and plastics.  We can FreeCycle usable things we no longer need.  We can start walking to places that are only a short distance from our homes.  We can get out those bicycles!

We can use EcoSmart products around our homes, too.  This helps both the earth AND us, because not only do EcoSmart products help us keep our homes clean and green, they also keep away harmful insects and pesky animals that dirty up our environment.

More and more businesses are offering EcoSmart products for sale, and this is a mark of a wise business.  And, you can always purchase EcoSmart Repellem products right here on the good old internet.

Ever since I discovered EcoSmart Repellem products, I haven’t used any other brand in my home.  I live way out in the country, and I have to set my trash out on the deck all the time.  Before I knew about EcoSmart Repellem, I spent an awful lot of time crawling around the yard picking up my own trash and re-bagging it, because the possums and raccons and dogs had smelled it from afar and come running to the feast.  Now, with Repellem bags, the animals can’t see nor smell the garbage inside the bags, so my trash sits in clean trash bags, awaiting our weekly trip to the dump.

It’s a small thing, trash bags, to make a person feel as though he/she is helping keep the earth clean and green, but it’s a fact:  using EcoSmart Repellem products does help.  And, they’re superior products in every possible way.

EcoSmart Repellem products are superior to any other trash bag or tablecloth, and comparable in price.  They keep harmful, dangerous insects, vermin, and animals away from your children’s toys, food, playing spaces, and beds, without a single hazardous poison or other ingredient.  EcoSmart Repellem products are made of 100% natural, recyclable ingredients, so when you use them, you are not only keeping your children and your home cleaner and greener and safer, you are also helping to save the planet!

You can purchase EcoSmart Repellem products right here on the Repellem website, and now, you can also buy your EcoSmart Repellem products at your local Vitamin Shoppe - and at a discount, too!

Don’t laugh!  EcoSmart Repellem trash bags are an amazingly useful baby shower gift!  Repellem products keep the baby’s nursery area completely free of insects and mice, and are absolutely 100% harmless, recyclable, biodegradable and, even though the bags themselves are red, completely GREEN!  EcoSmart Repellem bags are made of 100% natural ingredients, and there is nothing in them than can harm your baby in any way.

Even the cleanest home will have an occasional visiting fly, mosquito, gnat, ladybug, moth, weevil, or mouse once in a while.  A home that uses EcoSmart Repellem products, however, will NOT have these problems!  Repellem products don’t kill the insects or rodents; they simply repel them.  Your home will not be a welcoming location for insects or rodents, with Repellem products on the job!

When you set your Repellem bags outside to await the garbage truck, you won’t have to worry about neighborhood or stray dogs tearing them open and scattering your family’s trash all over the streets, either.  Repellem bags simply can’t be seen or smelled by most animals, unlike all other brands of garbage bags.

Why not give new parents a box of EcoSmart Repellem garbage bags, then?  People who wrapped up little statues, banks, picture frames, and photo albums might giggle, but after you explain to them what EcoSmart Repellem products will do for a home, I’m willing to bet that everybody will run home and order some for themselves.

When you give the gift of EcoSmart Repellem, you give the gift of cleanliness and safety.  How could that fourth wrapped diaper bag even BEGIN to compete with that?

Order some EcoSmart Repellem products NOW, why don’tcha?

I set these two full trash bags out on my deck last Friday morning, and took a picture. The white bag is a Glad bag, and the red bag is, of course, an EcoSmart Repellem trash bag. Both are full of the same kind of garbage: a combination of kitchen and bathroom garbage, the very best kind - if you’re a raccoon or a possum, or even a wandering neighbor dog.  VERY smelly.

This picture was taken Sunday afternoon.  Please notice that the red EcoSmart Repellem trash bag is still in almost the exact same position as it was when first place here last Friday.  It’s almost as though it hasn’t been so much as touched by any hungry animals. . . as though the animals, hungry as they most certainly were, never even noticed the Repellem bag. . . . as though the animals didn’t even realize the Repellem bag was there!  The animals came, oh yes indeed, you can see where they knocked over a little planter in their rush to get to the yummy garbage.

Where’s the white Glad bag, which, by the way, was the exact same price as the Repellem bag?  Oh, it’s still there, but we can’t see it because the animals tore into it with such enthusiasm that they knocked it off the deck and scattered its contents in the yard, up against my house.  The animals were so eager to dig into the Glad bag that they tore up the mulched area between my deck and my house, in fact.

But the EcoSmart Repellem garbage bag?  Absolutely untouched.  Pristine.  Not even a paw-print on it.

The thing is, you see, Repellem trash bags are made with a combination of 100% natural, biodegradable ingredients that animals simply can not smell, no matter how good their noses might be.  Repellem bags are thick and strong and animals can’t see or smell them.  What else could anyone ask for in a trash bag?  The Glad bags were strong, but their contents could be detected by the animals from far away, and no trash bag plastic can withstand a determined, hungry animal.  The Repellem bag survived because not only is it strong and thick, the animals simply did not even realize it was THERE!

I’ll be doing little experiments like this all spring and summer.  My neighbors wonder why I take pictures of my garbage while they are filming their children, but oh well!  Perhaps I’ll find fame as the eccentric lady who takes pictures of her trash!

Ahh, spring.  The official first day of spring is this coming Friday, the 20th, you know.  When the spring weather begins, it stirs up my blood and makes me want to . . . do experiements with Repellem trash bags again!

So, on Friday, the 20th - the first day of spring - I’m going to put a bag of smelly garbage, in an EcoSmart Repellem trash bag,  out on my deck again, to see if the animals will still ignore it.

Last year, remember, the animals acted as if they couldn’t even smell or see the Repellem trash bags, even when they were stuff full of EXTREMELY smelly trash.  Sometimes, animals build up immunities to things, so on Friday, I’ll put another Repellem bag out there and take its picture, and report back to you all next Monday.

My neighbors think I’m kind of weird, to take pictures of my garbage bags, but when I remind them about the EcoSmart Repellem bags that they so love to borrow from me - ahem! - they remember that EcoSmart Repellem trash bags are incredible, amazing, AWESOME trash bags, and they offer to help me with my experiments.

The people next door have small children AND dogs, so I’ll probably be over there taking some pictures of THEIR garbage this spring, too.

Why, is that unusual?

March is such a very “iffy” month; a typical March weather report for a few days might look like this:  snow, thunderstorm, single digits, seventies, blooming crocuses, blizzard, teens, thunderstorm, tornado, single digits, high sixties, tulips, blizzard, bright sunshine. . . . you get the picture.  There’s just no consistency!

People aren’t the only living things that are confused by March weather.  Animals and insects are confused, too!  Bright sunshine makes bugs desperate to live on our warm windowpanes.  Blizzards makes mice and insects crazy to get inside our houses.  Raccoons and possums start hanging around our decks, hoping for a buffet of filled trash bags.

How can we deal with this craziness?  EASY!  Use EcoSmart Repellem products, and there will be no insects or unwelcome animals in your home, or even NEAR your home! 

No raccoons.  No possums.  No moths.  No silverfish.  No ants.  No roaches.  No mice.

Use EcoSmart Repellem products, and you’re not only helping the environment, you’re also keeping your home clean, green, and pest-proof.  Absolutely.