Repell-em Blog

It’s almost time to carve your jack o’lantern for Halloween! Usually, October isn’t all that cold, so the pumpkins start to crawl with bugs fore a few days have gone by. This, of course, makes the pumpkins look awful and add an ick factor to your home that doesn’t have anything to do with a holiday.

EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem has a better idea.

Carve your pumpkin as usual, but scrape out a little more of the pulp that you ordinarily would. Cut out the face - make it scary!

Take a Repellem trash bag and line the inside of your carved pumpkin with it. Then, put a battery-powered fake candle in the center - a big wide one looks best. DO NOT use a real candle with a plastic trash bag inside the pumpkin!

When you put this red-lined jack o’lantern on the porch or front step and turn on the battery-powered light inside it, step back and admire: The pumpkin’s face will glow and bring out the red of the lining, and the look is unmistakably HALLOWEEN! Plus, your pumpkin will not become infested with insects at all; the bugs won’t even know it’s there, and this means your pumpkin will stay fresh longer, too.

Those glowing red eyes will bring some oohs and aahs from your little trick-or-treaters, too.

I’ve been doing my jack o’lanterns this way for four years now, and each year look creepier With Halloween pumpkins, that’s exactly the effect I want!

(Remember: no candles! Battery-powered lights only!)

More than spring bulbs are waking up and presenting themselves for our approval; the bugs are making themselves known, too! I’m sure you’ve already noticed that bugs and spiders are awake and trying desperately to get where the easy food is: our homes.

It’s extra important in the springtime to be sure we don’t leave food out where it will only look like a large free buffet to ants, gnats, flies, roaches, and other lovely creatures we don’t invite into our houses; they gatecrash! But we can’t ever clean a house thoroughly enough to keep out the bugs; there is, however, an easy fix for the annual springtime insect invasion. EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem products.

As long as there’s a Repellem trash bag in every wastecan, a few strips of Repellem in every kitchen cabinet - don’t worry about your food, as Repellem products are 100% natural and completely harmless - you won’t have to worry about the bugs. Bugs will stay as far away from a Repellem house as possible.

So will the spiders.

I used to have to take down and clean all the light fixtures in spring and summer, at least once a week, to dump out the dead bugs. Now, since I’ve used Repellem in my kitchen and in all the closets in the house, I never have to take down the light fixtures. I’m short, and it was a big annoying deal, and it’s so nice NOT to have to do that any more.

Let me sum up. Warm weather is here, or it’s coming soon (Depends on your location, of course) and if you spread the Repellem products around your house, you’ll never have to deal with bugs.

Oh, and those winter coats hanging in the closet, waiting for next winter? Just cover them with a Repellem trash bag and the moths won’t even know they’re there.

EcoSmart Plastics and Repellem products are the best on the market today. My house is proof. Prove it with your house, too.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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!

My newest batch of Repellem trash bags arrived today, and BOY, was I glad to see them!

I ran out of Repellem bags two days ago, and had to use some leftover Hefty bags  an inferior brand of trash bag.  This meant that I could not toss the full bags out on the deck, since animals can see white typical trash bags and smell what’s inside of them from long distances away.  THIS meant that I had to keep three bags of garbage in my kitchen, and I hate doing that for so many reasons.

But today, my new Repellem bags arrived, and I immediately put them in all of the wastebaskets in the house.  I also slipped the Hefty inferior bags into the Repellem bags so I could set them outside.

Using Repellem products has improved the quality of our lives so very, very much, and I know that the quality of YOUR life, and your family’s lives, would be improved, too.

Repellem products help me keep my home clean and green and safe.  What more could anyone ask of a product?

P.S.  Don’t forget to sign up for the EcoSmart Plastics Repellem Blog Giveaway!!

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!

More and more families are “going green” these days, and actively seeking products that support this lifestyle.  I highly recommend Repell-em products for “green” families, because, unlike so many other products that CLAIM to be ‘green,” Repell-em products really are!  It’s ECO-SMART to use Repell-em!

They’re red, but they’re GREEN!  (Repell-em bags can be any color or pattern you wish, in fact.)

Terry Feinberg, Repell-em’s president, tells us all the absolute truth about Repell-em’s “green-ness” when he says that “. . .Above all else, I thought it was important that REPELL-EM products be environmentally friendly.

To achieve this, I combined 100% natural, organic ingredients that were found to repel many insects and animals, and biodegrade the plastic 100% in a short time. There are many companies that claim their products are bio-degradable, but in reality, their products are merely degrading into smaller pieces of plastic.

Repell-em products, once placed in a typical landfill or thrown in your backyard compost bin, will biodegrade 100% into soil in 1 to 7 years depending on environmental conditions. All the other “so called” biodegradable products produced using corn-based resin, starch additives, and oxo-based additives, all take 30-50 years or more to fully biodegrade or remain for many more years! They function poorly when exposed to heat, light, or moisture, and really do not stand up. No products in the world are made like Repell-em, and none work like them either!”

I’ve told you all before that I use Repell-em products in my home, but I don’t mind telling you again.  Ever since I first discovered Repell-em, I have used no other trash bag, because a Repell-em home is a cleaner, safer home.