Getting rid of fleas at home

Natural Home Remedies and Tricks to Get Rid of Fleas

Mary Smith
By Mary Smith. Updated: January 20, 2017
Natural Home Remedies and Tricks to Get Rid of Fleas

Have you got fleas in your house because of your dog or other pet? Want to get rid of them and but don't know how? There are a lot of products on the market to get rid of fleas but you can also do it with some natural remedies. In this OneHowTo article, we'll provide you with a few home remedies to get rid of fleas that will help you eradicate them.

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Contents

  1. Water and light as home remedies for getting rid of fleas
  2. Lemon juice as a home remedy for getting rid of fleas
  3. Pennyroyal as a home remedy for getting rid of fleas
  4. Vinegar and lavender as home remedies for getting rid of fleas
  5. Home remedies to get rid of fleas on your dog

Water and light as home remedies for getting rid of fleas

This home remedy for getting rid of fleas is pretty foolproof but requires a considerable amount of patience. Take a container, fill it to the top with water and add a little washing-up liquid. Stir the liquid in gently so that it doesn't create a lot of bubbles. Place the container directly under the light of a lamp and switch it on. You'll have to do this every night for several days. When you get up in the morning, check how many fleas there are in the water. As the days go by you'll notice that fewer and fewer fleas are in the water each night.

Why does this happen? Fleas are attracted to light so they will be drawn to the lamp and inadvertently jump into the container where there is the most light, and drown. The washing-up liquid makes sure that the fleas are not left floating in the water so that they sink.

Natural Home Remedies and Tricks to Get Rid of Fleas - Water and light as home remedies for getting rid of fleas

Lemon juice as a home remedy for getting rid of fleas

When you mop the floor of your home, add the juice of two or three lemons to the water and the product that you normally use. Mop the entire floor to leave it suffused with lemon. Lemon is a major flea repellent and it will avoid the fleas to acommodate in your home.

Above all you must bear in mind that you should never use lemon on your skin or on your pet's skin.

Natural Home Remedies and Tricks to Get Rid of Fleas - Lemon juice as a home remedy for getting rid of fleas

Pennyroyal as a home remedy for getting rid of fleas

Pennyroyal is another great remedy to get rid of fleas in the house. Put some bags of pennyroyal mint in the areas where you want to get rid of fleas (on your sheets, on the sofa etc.). Fleas hate the smell of pennyroyal so they will move away from the site where you've placed the bags.

Natural Home Remedies and Tricks to Get Rid of Fleas - Pennyroyal as a home remedy for getting rid of fleas

Vinegar and lavender as home remedies for getting rid of fleas

Apple vinegar is also a good remedy to get rid of fleas. Dilute a glass of vinegar and forty drops of lavender in a litre of water. Use this mixture to mop the floors of your house and wait for the floor to dry. When finished, take the vacuum cleaner around and you'll have managed to kill the fleas.

Natural Home Remedies and Tricks to Get Rid of Fleas - Vinegar and lavender as home remedies for getting rid of fleas

Home remedies to get rid of fleas on your dog

Dogs are animals that have great possibilities of bringing fleas to your house, for this reason it is important that you eliminate these insects from your dog to guarantee they don't spread all around the house. These are some of the home remedies to get rid of fleas on your dog:

  • Eucalyptus oil: the smell of this plant will work as a flea repellent
  • Lavender oil: this plant also works as a repellent given that fleas hate its smell
  • Beer yeast: this is a component rich in Vitamin B1, something that modifies the smell of blood and misleads fleas.

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