Herbal Remedies For Fleas
Herbal Remedies For Fleas
Fleas are a bothersome bug that thrives on warm-blooded animals, including pets and humans. They can spread diseases and their dormant eggs can hatch after a year. Fortunately, there are effective ways to reduce their presence and make your environment less hospitable to fleas.
Five Herbal Remedies You Can Use to Repel Fleas
Yes, you can buy chemical remedies and you can get professional help. But if you're scared of the effect these remedies may have on your home or your kids, you can try these herbal remedies. They'll help to keep your home flea-free.
- Try the Garlic Way: Garlic is a natural flea repellent. It can be used in several ways to repel fleas from your pets and yourself. Firstly, you can get some garlic powder and sprinkle it on your pets before they go outside. Even if they stay in your garden, fleas can hide in the grass. A great reason to keep your grass short. Secondly, you can buy some garlic pellets and serve them with your pets' food. These pellets should be meat-flavoured, so your pet won't mind. Lastly, you can eat a piece of raw garlic with water every morning before breakfast. In most cases, the fleas will never bite you again. You'll also repel insects like mosquitoes.
- Lavendar: Fleas hate lavender. Plant it in your garden (as well as keeping the grass short). Keep lavender plants around your house in flowerpots. They'll repel the fleas and keep your house fragrant. For further effect, sprinkle some lavender oil in the corners of your house. Keep some lavender oil-soaked cotton balls around your room too.
- Lemon Spray: This is a natural repellent. Cut up four lemons into thin slices and boil them in water. Leave them overnight. The next day, strain the water and keep it in a spray bottle. Spray it around your house. Be careful when spraying it on your pets, though. Lemon can irritate them.
- Salt: I know salt is more mineral than herb. But spraying salt all over your carpet and soft furnishings prior to vacuum cleaning will help remove these nuisances from your life.
- Baking Soda: Again more mineral than herb. But it's a natural remedy. Sprinkle a mixture of baking soda and salt on your carpets and soft furnishings overnight. It's safe to use. Keep your pet away from the baking soda if you think they might eat it, as it's dangerous. But baking soda doesn't taste too good, so they probably won't.
Can Natural Remedies Chase the Fleas Away?
No single remedy will completely destroy fleas. But a combination will certainly help to keep them away over time. You may need chemical remedies in the short term. But because of side effects, you can't use them indefinitely. Use natural remedies on an ongoing basis. They are guaranteed to repel fleas and will do you no harm.
