Miraculous Home Remedies for Fleas
Homemade Herbal Flea Powder – Homemade Soap Recipes for Fleas
Mix and grind 1 cup each of rue, wormwood, rosemary, fennel, and peppermint. When the herbs have been ground to a powder, dust the animal with the herbal mixture, working it in as you go.
This is a good soap for washing the family dog that will help to control fleas.
Ingredients:
100 g Vaseline
fresh pennyroyal
80 g beeswax
300 g soap flakes
100 g methylated spirits
Preparation:
Infuse half a handful of pennyroyal to every 100 g of Vaseline. Finely chop the herb; put the Vaseline into a double saucepan and melt the Vaseline over a medium heat. Add the herb and simmer for 20 minutes.
Stir in the wax and when melted add the soap flakes, stirring until completely dissolved. Remove from heat and immediately stir in the alcohol. Pour into moulds to harden and cut into bars.
This soap can be used immediately.
Homemade Flea Repellent Powder
Once a week dust your pet with the following Flea Repellent Powder.
Ingredients:
3 drops pennyroyal oil
3 drops eucalyptus oil
3 drops cedarwood oil
9 drops citronella oil
500 g bicarbonate of soda
Preparation and Usage:
Combine the oils and mix them with the bicarbonate of soda. Sprinkle this over carpets etc., wait 1 hour and then vacuum up.
Natural Homemade Flea Powder
Mix together 2 tablespoons each of powdered wormwood and rosemary. Add 4 tablespoons of powdered pennyroyal, and 2 teaspoons of cayenne pepper. Use as often as you would a commercial flea powder. Caution: Do not get this into the animal’s eyes.
Homemade Herbal Flea Spray
Spray pet’s bedding and mats with following Flea Spray.
Ingredients:
5 tablespoons feverfew flowers
1 tablespoon methylated spirits
4 cups (1 litre) boiling water
Preparation:
Place the flowers in a ceramic bowl, add the boiling water, cover, steep overnight, then strain through muslin, squeezing all liquid from the herbs. Pour into a pump-spray bottle, add the methylated spirits and shake vigorously so that it is well blended.
Herbal Flea Wash
Add 1 cup fresh or dried rosemary to 4 cups of boiling water. Cover and steep until cool. Strain. Wash the dog and rinse well. Pour the herbal liquid on the dog and work in well. Leave the rosemary tea on the dog and let it dry.
Homemade Flea Powder
In between washes, dust your pet’s hair with a herbal flea powder. Derris can be used as a convenient substitute or you can make up the following powder:
Ingredients:
100 g fennel seeds
100 g dried pennyroyal
100 g dried pyrethrum flowers
Preparation:
Reduce the fennel seeds to a fine powder using a pestle and mortar, then powder the remaining ingredients by rubbing them through a fine wire sieve. Thoroughly mix all ingredients and store in a suitable container with holes pierced in its lid.
Usage:
Dust through animal’s fur, leave for 30 minutes, then brush or comb it out with a fine-toothed comb. Sweep up dead or stupefied fleas and burn them.
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Home Remedy for Bed Fleas
Sprinkle the bed with lavender oil and place fresh fennel under the bedding. Bugs hate the smell of fennel, so plant plenty near your kennel area. You can also stuff your pet’s pillow with pennyroyal, eucalyptus, peppermint, red cedar shavings rue, or sassafras shavings.
* Include fresh garlic in your pet’s daily meal, or simply pop a piece of it down its throat. This will help to build up a natural resistance to fleas.
* 1 teaspoon of powdered sulphur in their food once a week is also reputed to work. This dose is based on an adult cat, which usually weighs around 6 kg, and should be increased or decreased according to weight.
* 6 to 8 drops of pennyroyal oil on your pet’s leather collar will help to control fleas. A flea collar made from a piece of elastic and soaked in neat pennyroyal oil will also help. Renew the oil for both weekly.
* 30 drops of pennyroyal oil blended with 2 tablespoons of olive oil makes an excellent flea repellent lotion. Use between washes. Dab small amounts of the lotion on the animal’s fur and work in with your fingers.
Catmint included in a sachet with dried wormwood and placed in the pet’s bed will repel fleas. A sachet of dried rue or pennyroyal in the dog’s basket also helps to keep fleas at bay. You can rub dried wormwood leaves into the cat’s coat and tansy leaves into the dog’s as extra flea deterrents. Brush the herbs out well after a few minutes.