Five natural ways to prevent roaches in your home
Roaches are probably the most annoying pests that can invade your home. They can give you quite the scare when they crawl at your feet in the kitchen or when they fly in your direction. Now not only are they annoying, in some rare cases, they can also carry diseases that can be harmful to you and your family. So how do you prevent or get rid of a cockroach infestation? This blog post tells you Five natural ways to prevent roaches in your home
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Most of the time, roaches are usually associated with dirty environments. It is common to find them in places like your laundry room/ laundry basket, kitchen wardrobes and in abandoned nook and crannies of your home. They can also be embarrassing when they crawl at visitors in your home because they give the impression that your home is not as tidy as it appears.
One of the quickest ways to be rid of them, however, is by using pesticides or insecticide, but some of these chemicals have been found to pose great threats to the health. For this reason, getting rid of roaches in a natural way is an option that guarantees a safe and healthy alternative to insecticides and other strong chemicals. So what are the natural ways of getting rid of roaches?
Thorough and efficient home cleaning
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This can never be over-emphasized. IF your home is not clean, there’s no two way about it, you are ultimately creating a breeding ground for roach infestations. You have to clean, clean and clean again. Don’t go to bed with heaps of used dishes in your kitchen zinc. If you are too tired to do the dishes, make sure you take out the food residue and turn the plates over in the zinc.
Don’t just toss dirty laundry in the laundry basket. Take out residues from your pockets. Arrange your dirty clothes neatly in the basket. This way, even if you take a few days before doing your laundry, you wouldn’t have made a mess of the basket.
Cleaning may seem like a lot of work, but if you dedicate at least 15 minutes to cleaning every day, you’ll be saving yourself a lot of trouble.
Don’t leave cracks and holes
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Fix any water leaks
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Leaks are common in places like the underneath of your kitchen zinc or the zinc in your bathroom. Roaches are attracted to the moisture formed in these spots, so that is why it’s important for you to seal up any leaking pipe in your home. Some roaches can survive longer without food, but can rarely last a few days without water.
Five natural ways to prevent roaches in your home
Bay leaves
Some of you may only know bay leaves as a part of the spices you need to make your super Jollof rice, but do you also know that roaches are not accommodative of bay leave scent?? So, maybe you have a soft spot for roaches and perhaps you don’t want to kill them, but you just want to keep them out of your home, bay leaves are a natural roach repellant. Just grind the leaves until smooth and sprinkle in roach infested areas in your home. They simply hate the smell of them.
Lemons
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Another completely natural option that can help you get rid of roaches in your home, is the use of Lemon. Lemons have a fresh smell that is often associated with a clean home and that is why you find them as an ingredient in a lot of house cleaning products. The anti-pathogenic properties of lemons and other citrus foods will keep roaches away. You can do a lot of different things with lemon to keep roaches out of your home. The easiest is to simply squeeze lemon juice into a spar container and apply it in roach infested areas of your home.
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