Repell-em Blog

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.

When people search for products that help make a home clean and green, trash bags are not usually one of the first things that come to mind.

However, when you think about it, the trash is where strong, smelly things live, and those strong smelling things attract insects and animals.  Put strong smelly things in an inferior trash bag, and you’re spreading a buffet for every bug and critter in the neighborhood.

However, if you put strong smelly things in a Repellem trash bag, insects and animals will behave as though they didn’t even notice.  That’s because they DON’T notice.  The ingredients in Repellem products really do repel.

So go ahead and set your trash outside the night before it’s picked up.  You an’t do that with a Hefty bag, but you sure can do it with a Repell-em trash bag!

Ordinarily, whenever a lot of food is spread out buffet-style, no matter how clean your home might be, there are going to be a few flies buzzing around that food.

However, if you put a Repellem tablecloth under your pretty holiday tablecloth, there will be no flies.  Your pets won’t bother the table, either; Repellem products live up to their name and REPEL all insects and animals! 

When there are pets in the house, it isn’t often that you can spread a buffet of good food on your countertop or table and be able to turn your back on it with a cat or dog around.  With Repellem products, though, you CAN.

I have two lively, pouncing cats, and they love nothing better than to spring up on top of the counters and tables.  This Thanksgiving weekend, with a feast of good things all over the table and counters, the cats didn’t even seem to notice.

There are so many uses for Repellem products!  With EcoSmart’s Repellem, we have the answer to the question:  When is a trash bag or tablecloth not just a trash bag or tablecloth?

Answer:  When it’s a REPELLEM trash bag or tablecloth.

P.S.  Don’t forget to enter the latest EcoSmart Plastics contest!!!  $250.00 is a lot of loot!

Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients, such as lemons, apples, citronella, peppermint, rosemary, cloves, geraniums, and a little mineral oil.  There is not a single drop or dot of anything poisonous, and absolutely NO Deet, in any Repell-em product.

Deet can be dangerous, both to human skin and to the environment.  Deet is poisonous, and hazardous if taken internally.  It’s a pesticide, not a repellent.  It’s made of chemicals.

Repell-em is absolutely harmless, even if your child puts it in his mouth.  Repell-em doesn’t even harm the insects or animals; it just REPELS them!

Smart parents don’t keep dangerous poisons in the house, but with Repell-em products, parents don’t need to worry at all about their children getting into the Repell-em.  It won’t hurt them.  And using Repell-em trash bags, tablecloths, and camping extras will actually help keep your children SAFE, because the insects and animals won’t come near them!

I’ve posted before about how a baby’s nursery is safer with Repell-em products to keep away the insects that feed on waste, etc.  But what many people don’t realize is that the entire house is safer for your children when you use Repell-em products!

It’s not just the kitchen that benefits from Repell-em, either - it’s the whole house!  Repell-em trash bags in every wastebasket, little strips of Repell-em around the crib legs and rocking chair legs, a few pieces of shredded Repell-em down in the vents so that when the heater or air conditioner come on, the Repell-em “essence” is blown through the air, and many other ways, are all beneficial to the health and well-being of your children and everyone else who lives in the house.

Even if your infant or toddler puts the Repell-em bag in his/her mouth, it won’t harm the baby.  Remember, Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients, and while the smell and taste are repugnant to insects and animals, to a person, the bags smell good and don’t taste all that bad, either.  But if you find your baby chewing on a Repell-em bag, don’t panic because the ingredients in the bags will not hurt the baby in any way.  Be careful of choking, but don’t worry about poison.

A household that uses Repell-em products is a household that is more child-friendly, more child-safe, and much more relaxed than a household that does not use Repell-em.  Without Repell-em, homeowners are forced to use dangerous chemical substances to repel insects, while those who use Repell-em are using a completely harmless product that also smells good.

Spring is here, and it’s time to hang your heavy winter coats in the closet and forget about them until next winter!

Summer is also the season for moths and other insects that can damage your heavy woolens badly.  There are many ways to keep your winter clothing safe from insects, but most of these methods are expensive, smelly, and often downright dangerous!

Why not just slip a Repell-em trash bag over your winter coat before you hang it up for the summer?  Repell-em trash bags are fantastic suit-bags, for example; I’ve heard from many readers who cover their prom dresses with a Repell-em bag before hanging them away.

It’s also very effective to put a Repell-em bag over the top of folded sweaters before you store the box in the back of the closet or under the bed.

Clothing is expensive, and we certainly don’t want our hard-earned money devoured by moths, silverfish, and other cloth-loving little bugs.

With Repell-em in your closet, that just won’t EVER HAPPEN!

This is a red Repell-em tablecloth. If I were you, I’d go here and buy some right now, before the warm weather arrives and stays, because if you sit outdoors at all, or eat outdoors at all, you’ll want a tablecloth that keeps all the insects away, won’t you?

It’s so nice to sit outdoors on the deck, or in the yard, with a lemonade or a margarita or a diet Coke, but bees and gnats and flies like those drinks, too. Most of the time, when you sit outdoors in the spring or summer warmth, with a glass full of sugary substance in your hand, you’re just asking for a swarm of bugs.

If you’ve got an open can of pop or beer, it can even be dangerous, because bees and wasps love those drinks so much, they’ll alight on the can and crawl inside before you know what’s happening, and when you try to drink, the insects bite or sting you on the mouth.

But with your attractive red Repell-em tablecloth on the outdoor table, you can set your drink down beside your plate of food or your open bag of chips, etc, and feel safe and secure in the knowledge that no living thing be it insect or mammal will come anywhere NEAR you or your refreshments, thanks to Repell-em.

Don’t be afraid to eat and drink near Repell-em products, either. Remember, they are made of 100% natural ingredients, completely harmless to humans.

I’m on Spring Break this week, so even though there’s still a little snow on my deck, I’m already looking forward to cleaning that deck, getting out the summer furniture, and sitting there looking at the beautiful woods behind my house, with a bag of Lay’s Potato Chips and a can of diet Coke, and not having to watch them every minute to make sure there are no insects crawling or flying around them.

Safe, safe, safe. NO INSECTS!!!!

I’ve used enough Repell-em products by now, personally, that I feel absolutely confident in any claim they make.

This tablecloth is 100% repellent to all insects and icky animals who like to lick our food, yet you can safely eat any food that falls on the tablecloth. It’s made of peppermint, and citronella, and rosemary, and clove, and geranium, and lemons, and apples, and mineral oil. No wonder Repell-em products smell so good to humans!

My mother belongs to a missionary society, and these ladies regularly pack boxes full of necessities and maybe a few luxuries to mail to the members of their church who are currently living overseas, most of them in very hot countries and with very few amenities to make things pleasant.

Mom was telling me about a letter they’d received from one of their missionaries, and in this letter, a lady was describing their never-ending battle with scavenging animals and insects. She told the church ladies that she and her family were always covered with bug bites, always itching, always shaking the sheets to be rid of the spiders and heaven-knows-what else. There is always a bug in everybody’s shoe, always an animal sniffing around the trash, and it was to the point that it was dangerous to let the children play outside. She described the stray dogs and coyotes, the raccoons and other wild and semi-wild and even fairly tame animals who made hash and hay of any trash or garbage. This lady lamented that even though churches sent really nice, expensive trash bags all the time, none of them could stand up to the insects and hungry animals of this area of the planet.

So, I gave Mom one of my boxes of Repell-em trash bags to pack in the missionary box, and I asked the church ladies to ask the missionaries if they would mind reporting back to me on whether or not the Repell-em product did the trick and kept the bugs and stray animals away from the bagged garbage.

When I hear, I’ll let you all know!

One more thank-you to everyone who entered the Repell-em contest; those of you who responded in time with your mailing information should be getting your sample very soon.

There will be another Repell-em contest in the spring, so keep watching this blog for details!

And hey, if you plan on sending a box of whatever to missionaries, friends, etc. who are living in a hot, insect-y country, you might consider putting some Repell-em products in there. I’m betting that Repell-em magic will make a world of difference to someone who is living a world away, trying to make the world a better place.