HERB - Herbal Pest Repellants

[SCOTT A WAGGONER]

>On Mon, 04 May 1998 20:42:09 EDT maynedelacroix at juno.com (SCOTT A 
>WAGGONER) writes:

>I bought some herbal flea spray and powder at Petsmart called Pure O'
Flee.
>It has Citrus peel oil (d'limonene) eucalypyus oil, cornstarch, 
>silica, citrus peel being the primary
>active ingredient.  Works well for me, but takes longer to work than 
>chemicals, but is safer for the dog.  I even used it on my puppy, 3 
>months old and it didn't seem to affect her negatively.
>Hope this helps. Also flea combing the dog with lemon juice helps 
>kill the fleas, plus at least 
>a weekly bath with a d'limonene containing product
>Raven
>>

Mayne here!

d'limonene is an interesting substance. I use a bottle of the pure stuff
at work to clean hard rubber rollers and to removed baked on copier toner
from steel plate.  If it gets on certain types of plastic ( I think
polystyrene) it melts it. 
Think about that the next time you are eating an orange!



Mayne de la Croix --- The original MiB
Gate's Edge Canton, Barony of  Stargate,  Ansteorra

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