Borax Flea Control

Borax flea control is one good way of eliminating fleas from your home if you have a flea infestation you can mix the borax soap with water and use this to wash your carpets, the borax and water mixture will set and this will kill off the flea infestation quite quickly.

As with all chemicals Borax needs to be treated with respect and used sensibly, it is toxic and will make you ill if it is eaten, this is especially true of young children. One of the most common problems with Borax is that the carpets will be treated, the fleas killed, and then the family relaxes, the child plays on the carpet, touching the carpet with its hands and then puts its hands in its mouth, only being small this tiny amount of Borax can be dangerous to the child. The best advise if that if children are going to be in the room that needs to be treated do not use Borax to kill the fleas, there are a number of natural non toxic alternatives you can use.

When treating a flea infestation it is important to use a variety of flea killing tactics as no one will work 100% on there own, they are all interdependent on the other approaches taken, this include Advantage or Front line for your pets to stop more fleas entering your home and starting the flea infestation cycle again and Pennyroyal, Citronella, Lemongrass, Cedar and flea foggers as natural and chemical alternatives

Advantage and Front line on your pets has the added advantage of turning your pets into mobile flea killers as the fleas that bite your pets will pass on th chemicals from these products to other fleas, it also stops the fleas breading, this can quicken the flea eradication program as it is not recommended that you use the Borax flea control treatment for long periods of time as being a potent chemical it does have some health concerns if you are exposed to it over a period of time.

Once the borax is on your carpet and has dried you need to vacuum it up, this lifts the fleas and eggs out of your carpet, it also lifts an amount of the chemicals but not all of it, there really is no guaranteed way of getting all of the chemical out of the carpets once it has been used on them and this is one of the reasons it is not a good long term treatment for killing fleas.

Once you have vacuumed the carpets you will need to dispose of the vacuum cleaner bag as soon as possible as it is possible the lave could still hatch from the eggs into the bag, if the bag is still in your home these fleas can escape back into your carpets and you are back to square one, regular vacuuming can get the eggs and fleas from the carpets but you need to sensible about ensuring they do not come back.

As with most treatments the big secret to effective Borax flea control treatments is not missing or skipping a scheduled application.