Repell-em Blog

Look closely at my tomato garden and you will see that each tomato cage has been wound with a strip of Repell-em, and between the scent, the ends waving in the breeze, and the large Repell-em piece acting as a scarecrow there on the end, I really believe we’re going to get some tomatoes for ourselves this year.

I don’t have to worry about “insect repellent” touching my food and contaminating it in any way, because Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients and are completely harmless.

The cats were used to playing in that railroad flat all winter, and it’s really funny to watch them go running toward it and then stop short, look around with a bewildered expression, and then turn and walk away.  The deer have been using that garden patch as a salad bar all winter, but now that there is actual food in it, they behave as though they can’t even see or smell it.  That’s because they can’t.  The EcoSmartPlastics Repellem strips have rendered my tomatoes unplottable!

Here’s a closer shot of a few tomato cages, so you can see in greater detail what I’ve done with the strips of Repell-em. It’s nothing fancy, obviously, but so far it’s working like a charm!

There are so many uses for your Repell-em products. So far, every experiment I’ve done with them has been successful!

All the climate scientists are reminding us that this summer’s batch of insects is the worst in a long, long time, but EcoSmartPlastics Repellem can ensure that your cookouts and picnics are bug-free, too.  And if you go for a pleasant summer walk, make it even more pleasant by tying a strip of Repellem around your ankle and wrist.  You’ll stroll absolutely unmolested by mosquitoes, gnats, chiggers, and any other summer blood-sucking pest.

EcoSmart Repellem products are almost like magic; they work so well, and are completely harmless.  Amazing!

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 Christmas Week, and oh, the baking!  And oh, the wrapping!  And oh, the cooking and cleaning and planning!  And oh, the mess all of these things can make - smelly messes, fragrant, odorous messes that every insect and animal within sniffin’ distance has been waiting for all year!

If you use Ecosmartplastics Repellem products, however, you won’t have to worry about the animals OR the bugs, because Ecosmartplastics Repellem products are made of 100% natural ingredients that repel animals and insects, completely!

So go ahead and bag up your holiday trash and set it outside on the curb, or out on your deck.  Nothing will bother it.  While your neighbors might be chasing their trash up and down the street, your Repellem bag will still be sitting right where you put it, unmolested, untouched, and intact.

You can purchase Ecosmartplastics Repellem products right here.

Most schools these days can’t function without donations from parents.  That is a sad fact of life.

If your child’s teacher has trash bags on the list of classroom needs, why not send EcoSmart Repellem trash bags to school!  It would mean that your child, and all the other children in the room, would be learning in a completely insect-free environment, no matter how many cookie crumbs were spilled onto the floor!

How comforting to know that your child’s daytime environment was clean and vermin-free!  What a relief to picture your child perhaps sitting on the floor, working over posterboards or stacking blocks, and not have to worry about roaches, gnats, fleas, or even lice!

That’s right: lice.  Many parents are tying a little strip of Repellem around their child’s headband or barrette, or around a necklace, or through a collar buttonhole, to keep away the insects that love to hop from head to head in any crowded classroom.  Tie it in a pretty red bow, or put it where it won’t show at all!  It will also keep the mosquitoes away from your child when it’s recess time.

EcoSmart Repellem trash bags are made of 100% natural ingredients and are completely recyclable and environmentally sound.  There is nothing in a Repellem trash bag that could harm a child, even if the bags are used in daycare or preschools where a child might chew or suck on a trash bag.  They are excellent for use in daycare, in fact, because dirty diapers will not attract insects - not even flies - if disposed of in a Repellem trash bag!

Your child’s teacher will appreciate any donations you can send, of course, but if you send Ecosmart Repellem products, the teacher and all of the other parents will genuinely, thoroughly appreciate your thoughtfulness.

It’s such a small thing, but it has a HUGE impact!  Not having to worry about insects or mice will be a relief to the teachers, and it will be one worry crossed off each parent’s list, too!

To find the most convenient way to purchase EcoSmart Repellem trash bags, check out this page!

From CanPlastic.com comes the news that EcoSmart Plastics can now be purchased in Canada!

Nothing says summer in Canada like mosquitoes and other nuisance insects. But they’d better beware: a new plastics packager has come to town with a product designed to keep them, as well as a host of unwelcome animals, at bay.

EcoSmartPlastics is the manufacturer of two distinct lines of biodegradable packaging products. The company’s Repellem green garbage bags use all-natural ingredients to (as the name implies) repel everything from dogs to wasps; Eco-Smartbags, meanwhile, are a line of unscented trash bags designed to meet the toughest industry standards.

After several years in business, the Bohemia, N.Y. company recently added Montreal-based Larry Schwartz as its executive vice president and Canadian representative.

According to Terry Feinberg, president, both Repellem and Eco-Smartbags are 100 per cent biodegradable, compostable, non-toxic and chemical-free. But while many all-natural packagers can, and do, make that claim, few can assert the following: neither of the products requires oxygen, light, moisture or heat to break down.

“Our technology utilizes the microbial environment that is living in a landfill or compost bin, and doesn’t degrade without that,” Feinberg said. “This means that our products won’t degrade under the kind of heat that might be encountered on the top shelf of a warehouse or supermarket, which is a problem for packaging products made from ingredients like cornstarch.”

The active ingredients in Repellem and Eco-Smartbags, which Feinberg prefers to keep confidential, take between nine months to seven years to biodegrade, depending on landfill conditions, meaning that the bags themselves will disappear in that time.

“We have two different additive technologies,” Feinberg said. “One makes the biodegradable technology found in Eco-Smartbags and the other makes the Repellum technology.”

Whatever the active ingredients are, Repellem bags were singled out for notice in the 2007 Cool New Product Expo held by Stamford University.

While important to its growth, the addition of Canadian representation is just one part of EcoSmartPlastics’ bigger plan. “We have two production plants in Wisconsin, and others in the U.S. that are on standby,” Feinberg explained. “We’re also finalizing deals to have several U.S. plants that will produce our products for many different retailers, including some larger corporations that are very interested.”

The company is also looking to license its technology for the production of a variety of non-packaging products.

“We’re a little company that wants to grow,” Feinberg said.

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!

EcoSmart Plastics’ Repellem products are absolutely and 100% Earth-friendly, and will help you maintain a cleaner, greener home.

Repellem products are also 100% safe; your children will not be harmed by any Repellem product, because they are made of 100% natural ingredients.  There are no harmful chemicals or poisons in any Repellem product.

EcoSmart Plastics products biodegrade quickly and completely, leaving no “pieces” behind.  Nor do they require oxygen to decompose, as all other trash bags and plastics products do.

When you put EcoSmart’s Repellem products in your home, you are helping the Earth, saving money, and keeping your family safe.  Who could ask for more from a trash bag?

Remember, you’ve got until Valentine’s Day to enter the EcoSmart Plastics/Repellem Blog Contest!  $250.00 is a lot of merchandise, blogfriends; sign up today!

EcoSmart Plastics created Repellem products using all-natural ingredients.  That means that you will be able to use Repellem products even in a house where babies and small children live, because there is nothing whatsoever in any Repellem product that would present a danger of any kind!

Repellem products contain no chemicals or poisons; they do not kill animals and insects - Repellem REPELS animals and insects.  Repellem products will not harm any living thing in any way!

Most household products that keep a home free of insects or unwanted animals must be locked tightly away from curious children, because if such a product fell into a child’s hands it would also end up in a child’s mouth - children are curious, and try to eat almost everything except vegetables, remember.  Even if a child chewed or sucked on a Repellem trash bag or tablecloth, the child would not be harmed in any way.

It is advisable to keep ALL plastic bags out of the reach of tiny children, however, because of the suffocation possibility.

The New Year is here.  This is the first Monday of 2009!  Let us begin, and keep on, with a policy of a cleaner, greener home.

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.

In many states, it’s the LAW that dog owners must clean up after their dogs.

In every state, of course, it’s only considerate that pet owners clean up after their dogs. That’s what nice people do.

If you are planning to put dog poop in that flimsy little baggie you’re carrying in your purse or pocket, you might want to think twice about that.  For dog poop. you want a strong bag that absolutely will not split, break, or LEAK.  What you want, when you walk your dog, is a Repellem Dog Poop bag.

Repellem bags are strong, leakproof, made of 100% natural ingredients, and completely biodegradeable.  You’re working hard to make your home cleaner and greener; why not let your dog help?

Repellem Dog Poop Bags are also a great gift for a dog owner.  The neighbors will appreciate it, also.

Repellem Dog Poop Bags come in two sizes:  small and large.  Because sometimes, you know, the load is small, and sometimes it’s large  You know your dog.  Choose wisely.

They’re on sale right now, too.  Buy two or three boxes!