Useful Formulas

When one realizes they need to spray this, scrub that and kill those, a normal choice is to head for the store to purchase a product to take care of the problem. Unfortunately, few of these products are organic, and nearly all are downright dangerous. For some safer products, read on.

Instead of your regular fire ant killer, which will probably go bad 90 days after opening, try this. Take a gallon of water, a tsp of dishwashing soap and 1.5 oz of orange oil. Mix together and pour. Orange oil can be found at feed stores, nurseries, and many hardware stores.

For an excellent weed killer, try 1 gallon of apple cider vinegar, 2 cups of Epsom salts, 1 TBSP of orange oil, 3 tsp dishwashing soap. Mix well, and spray heavily. Doesn’t kill roots, but is fast acting, and non-toxic.

Stopping/preventing spiders, is the exception that proves the rule. First, buy a natural spider killer or preventer. Now, mix it with 1 cup vinegar, 1 cup pepper, 1 tsp orange oil, 1 tsp liquid dishwashing soap. Then, put in a spray bottle and spray along the window and door borders as well as vent holes in brick siding.

To remove stains, mix 1 tsp liquid dishwashing soap, 3-4 TBSP of hydrogen peroxide, and 2 TBSP baking soda. Pour some on a stain and scrub with a scrub brush.

For an excellent flea and tick killer, take 8 oz of apple cider vinegar, 4 oz warm water, ½ tsp salt, and ½ tsp baking soda. Mix dry ingredients first before SLOWLY adding the liquid ingredients. Do this slowly, because the vinegar and baking soda will react! Put in a spray bottle and spray/rub on your pets, being careful not to get any of the spray in your pet’s eyes