Repell-em Blog

We’re painting this month - every room in the house except one.  Here in southern Indiana, we’ve been under a Heat Advisory almost every day, and lately the high-nineties temps have been accompanied by severe humidity alerts as well.

There is no air conditioning in the house we’re painting, so all the windows are open and fans are running.  The problem with opening windows, especially when there are no screens, is that the insects consider that an open invitation to enter.

This summer’s severe heat and humidity have been good news for bugs.  In the evenings, we can hear huge swarms buzzing and humming and making whatever insect noises insects make.  If we go outside for even a few minutes, we’re covered by masses of mosquitoes; the bites are incredible!

When we first started painting, we were getting bugs in the paint on the walls.  I really don’t want to move into a house with insects embedded in the paint, so we didn’t know what to do at first.

Then I thought, if Ecosmart Plastics & Repellem products do such a good job under normal circumstances, would they also work for this not-quite-so-normal circumstance?

So I brought some Repellem trash bags to the new house and put a strip of one across each window.  That was Saturday.  Today is Monday, and there are no bugs in the house now.

I’m serious.  Wide open, screenless windows, wet paint, and no bugs.

I recommend this procedure highly!

EcoSmart products, such as Repellem, not only keep animals and insects away from almost anything; they also help the environment by keeping your home cleaner and greener!

EcoSmart products are 100% biodegradable, recyclable, and perfectly safe to have around your home.  Repellem products keep insects away from your clothing, your food, your floors, and, most important of all, your children.  How many effective products do you know of that keep your home insect-free, without harmful chemicals?

With EcoSmart products, you don’t have to do any mixing or making or contriving to keep the bugs away.  Just open the package and start using the product!  EcoSmart Repellem products smell wonderful, like expensive potpourri or candles; there’s no distasteful chemical smell at ALL with EcoSmart products.

Remember, the health and safety of our children is the most important thing, and EcoSmart is absolutely harmless to children, even toddlers and babies.  EcoSmart Repellem keeps the animals and bugs away with a combination of harmless, natural ingredients - 100% natural ingredients, in fact.

Try EcoSmart Repellem products today!

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.

I just set my trash out on the deck - four bags of garbage, sitting out on the deck, way out in the country, right next to a rather large woods.

Ordinarily, the smell of the garbage would lure every possum, raccoon, skunk, deer, fox, and insect to my patio door and I would spend an hour or more the next morning picking up the remains.

But now I use Repell-em trash bags, and I don’t have to worry about animals or bugs at all any more.  My trash will be, in the morning, exactly as it is right now.

Repell-em trash bags are red, which animals can’t see well, and they are made of 100% natural ingredients, the combination of which repels almost all animals and insects completely.

I love you, Repell-em products.

From reader/commenter Ellen comes these fantastic hints for using your Repell-em bags:

Ellen tell us that a fellow camper gave them some Repell-em bags (she calls them “magnificent garbage bags!”) and she put one in their campsite’s outside area, and the other she opened up and put under the non-skid mat outside the door, down the three steps and onto the ground. Ellen reminded us that having that mat on the ground is often just asking for trouble, but she got tired of sweeping and mopping up the linoleum in her new travel trailer.

According to Ellen, she had tried every anti-insect remedy known to mankind, but nothing worked until she tried the Repell-em bags.

She informed us that the ants and “other creepy-crawlies” would not cross the Repell-em line, and the inside of her new camper was bug-free.

Ellen went on to suggest that a piece of Repell-em bag tucked into a pocket or tucked into shoelaces might make evening walks more comfortable and could be reused as ties around the water and sewage hoses as a little extra “security.”

We here at Repell-em Products thank you, Ellen, for entering our contest and for giving us examples of how you use our product. You’ll be getting a sample in the mail, and perhaps you’ll even WIN!

Speaking of the Repell-em Contest, today is the last day to enter. At midnight tonight, the ballot box will be closed, and within the next few days, all entrants should expect to get an email from Jane at One by One Media (that’s me!) asking for a mailing address for your freebies.

On Wednesday of next week, we will email the winners and post their names and prizes right here on this blog.

Stay tuned!

And Ellen, thank you again. You’re awesome.