Repell-em Blog

My deck used to be almost unusable, because that’s where we tossed our full trash bags.  After a day or two - sometimes, within minutes - the possums and raccoons caught scent of our garbage and descended on the deck like piranha, tearing those cheap white trash bags to pieces, feasting on the smelly garbage, and leaving the deck covered with shreds of white plastic and whatever  garbage even the animals didn’t want.  Sitting out on the deck, in the swing, became an ordeal.  Besides, we never felt that the deck was really clean or even safe, because of all those animals swarming over it in the night.  Sometimes, even in the day!

With EcoSmart’s Repellem trash bags, though,  I really feel that my deck is clean.  I still toss my filled trash bags out there in their own little corner at night, but in the morning, lo and behold, those bulging trash bags, still full of smelly goodness (if you’re a raccoon, that is) are intact.  Untouched.

My deck is clean.

I don’t have to worry about the children stepping in visible - or invisible- possum poo.  I don’t have to crawl on my hands and knees, picking up bones and shreds of plastic.

I feel safer and cleaner.  My entire home feels safer and cleaner.

Greener, too, since Repellem trash bags are made of 100% natural ingredients and are completely biodegradable.

I feel as though I’m helping to keep the entire planet cleaner and greener when I use Repellem products.

In fact, I feel secure in stating that if everyone used EcoSmart’s Repellem products, the entire planet WOULD be cleaner, greener, and a lot safer.

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!!

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!)

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 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.

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.

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!

My daughter drove all the way down here today to “borrow” four Repell-em trash bags from me.  (I think I know what I’m getting her for her birthday this summer!)

She’s going to be out of town, and wants to set her trash out the night before instead of the morning of.  She can’t do that with regular trash bags because of all the dogs, cats, raccoons, and possums in her apartment complex.

That’s right; you heard me.  In southern Indiana, there are raccoons and possums  even in the city.  They’re everywhere. There is no escape from them.  And if you don’t play your cards right, they will tear into your garbage and spread it everywhere, causing you great hardship and even harsh fines if you don’t get it cleaned up absolutely right away.

My daughter doesn’t want to save her garbage for a week, and I don’t blame her - I raised her to not like to dwell in the midst of garbage - hence her 30-mile drive to get the Repell-em bags.

Where she’s going, there is a big Cabela’s,  so she plans to buy herself a package of Repell-em bags there.  I always order mine off the website, but Cabela’s does carry them.

(They’re on sale, on the website, right now!)