Repell-em Blog

Repell-em is undergoing a name change:  soon we will be known as Eco-Smart Plastics.

We are, as you no doubt know, a company that makes 100% natural, biodegradeable plastics: Repell-em scented products that repel almost any and all insects and animals, and Eco-smartbags, our unscented trash bags, among others.

Because Eco-Smart has proven itself to be a genuinely GREEN business, consciouentious consumers have really started to take notice, and beginning this January, you will find Repell-em and Eco-Smart in several more fine stores, in the GREEN section!

You will still be able to find Repell-em products in fine sports and camping stores such as Cabela’s, too! Of course, you can ALWAYS find Repell-em and Eco-Smart products online, too: right here in our store.

And hey!  We’re having a SALE!

Not only that:Eco-Smart Plastics is gearing up for another BLOG CONTEST!  Watch this blog closely for the announcement!  ( BIG prizes, folks!)

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.

School has already started for many children, and will start after Labor Day for a few more.  New clothes, new pencils, new lunchboxes, and new shoes are being unwrapped in many households right now.

When you put your child’s new shoes in his/her closet, remember to put a new Repell-em trash bag or tablecloth in the back or bottom of the closet, too.  Brown recluse spiders love to nest in the bottoms of closets, and particularly inside shoes.   If a child, or you, puts a foot inside a shoe and disturbs a brown recluse, it will bite, and the bite of a brown recluse spider is horrible, and can take YEARS to heal.

Simply avoid this possibility by using Repell-em products as preventative medicine in your closets.  Repell-em products smell so good to humans; they smell like expensive candles or sachets, in fact.  Having that Repell-em bag or tablecloth in your closet will not only keep the spiders away; it will also protect your expensive clothing from moths and other insects.

Put some Repell-em in your closet.  You’ll be glad you did.

We went on a picnic today.  Ordinarily my husband doesn’t care for picnics, because he can’t stand the bugs.  Now that we have Repell-em tablecloths, though, that concern is gone and we’ve actually gone on several really fun picnics this summer.

A Repell-em tablecloth not only keeps the flying bugs, like mosquitoes and gnats, away from you and from your food, it also keeps the ants and other crawling insects away.  A picnic without ants!  Can you imagine?

Well, if you have a Repell-em tablecloth on your picnic table, you don’t have to imagine.  You’ll see for yourself.

Don’t worry about the ingredients in the Repell-em tablecloth harming your skin or your food, either.  Repell-em products are made of 100% natural ingredients, all of which are absolutely harmless.

I’ve posted before about how Repell-em and Eco-Smart products are made of 100% natural ingredients and are completely harmless to humans.  We’ve also discussed the fact that Repell-em and Eco-smart products are 100% biodegradable.  I’ve used the word “green” when I write about these products.

Now, both Repell-em and Eco-Smart products have been  officially certified as “green” and “biodegradable” products by TerraChoice, Greenstar, and Nu Earth!

This means that our products, Repell-em and Eco-Smart, have been tested and checked to make sure they are safe and that they really are what they claim to be.  Repell-em and Eco-Smart passed these tests with flying colors!  The results of these tests are accepted in all fifty states, too.

I just can’t say this enough:  Repell-em and Eco-Smart products are exactly what they claim to be:  absolutely effective and 100% safe and biodegradable.  If that’s not “green,” then I don’t know what is.

I don’t what what kind they are, or why they’re there, but every summer, I get these disgusting little bugs under my kitchen sink.  It’s dry under there; no leaks or standing water.  The pipes are dry, too.  I don’t keep any organic substances under the sink; just soap!  Where do these bugs come from and why are there under the sink?

Rather, why WERE they under the sink, is more like it.  This summer, I wrapped a Repell-em bag around the U-pipe, and so far, not a single bug of any kind has shown its scaly face under there.

When the weather gets hot and muggy, the insects are in paradise.  Stick a Repell-em bag in all those enclosed spaces; they smell great to people, and you won’t be troubled by insects.  I’m serious.  I use nothing but Repell-em bags now, and not only are they the best trash bags ever, they’ve got so many other useful uses, I should write a book!

I read in a gardening magazine that putting a brightly-colored cloth on a pole and placing it in the middle and both ends of your garden will keep away the animals.  I’m going to try it this year, because last year, the deer ate almost everything!

However, my “scarecrows” won’t be made of cloth; I’m going to put Repell-em trash bags on poles and let them guard my tomatoes and green peppers.

Not only will the red Repell-em bag, flapping in the wind, keep all the animals away, it will also keep all the bugs away!

P.S.  I threw a Repell-em trash bag, full of corncobs and rib bones, in the back of our pickup truck three days ago, and nothing’s bothered it yet!

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!

I gave my mother some Repell-em trash bags on Monday, and told her to go ahead and set out her garbage that night, because Tuesday morning is Trash Pickup Day in her neighborhood.

She shared the bags with the neighbors on both sides of her house.  So what we had, on Monday night, was three houses on one side of a street with Repell-em trash bags sitting on the curb in front of each of them.  Mom’s left-hand neighbor’s Repell-em bag was especially pungent because she had a family reunion over the weekend and her Repell-em bag contained a turkey carcass, among other things.

The people across the street from Mom saw their neighbors putting out their trash the night before and decided to do the same.  The only difference was, these people were using ordinary white trash bags.

The next morning, there was trash and garbage all over the block.  The “white bag” neighbors’ trash was EVERYWHERE, and the white bags were in shreds.  On Mom’s side of the street, six red Repell-em bags sat in front of three houses, and the Repell-em trash bags were completely intact.

Mom’s convinced, and so are her neighbors.  None of them has a computer, so when I place my next order, they want in on it.

You should do the same!

One of the MANY very cool things about ordering Repell-em products from the website is the fact that Repell-em lets you pay with PayPal!

I don’t like to give out my Visa information on any kind of shopping website, but I’ve never had a single problem of any kind with PayPal. PayPal lets me pay “anonymously” and I don’t have to send any sensitive information to an online store, ever, IF the online store accepts PayPal.

I tend to patronize online businesses that let me use PayPal. I tend to NOT patronize online businesses that don’t let their customers use PayPal.

Not only does Repell-em have a fantastic product that lives up to every single promise it makes, Repell-em is also a business that understands people who like to shop online. I ordered a lot of Repell-em products a month or so ago and I paid for them with PayPal. It was so easy.

If you don’t have a PayPal account, you can still order from the Repell-em website. It’s just that Repell-em also allows customers to use their PayPal accounts!

For a bona fide computer junkie like me, that’s almost too good to be true.

You know, just like ALL Repell-em products. Their claims are almost too good to be true. But I’ve been using Repell-em products for over a month now and I can tell you, FIRST HAND: Every promise Repell-em makes is absolutely true. Repell-em products do everything they claim to do, and they do it well. I ordered several different kinds of products and there’s not a dud in the box.

I’d tell you, right on this blog, if I ever found one!