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BORIC ACID

BORIC ACID

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NATURE'S INSECTICIDE
Part Number: 401
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If a product can kill a cockroach, it is probably not healthy for humans either. Many pesticides are extremely harmful to the human nervous system, which is why safer, non-toxic remedies are a wise choice.   Boric Acid is a white powder that is mined from the Mojave Desert in California.  It is nature's proven, long-term treatment for eliminating a variety of insects such as roaches, termites, fire ants, palmetto bugs, ticks, bedbugs, fleas, boxelder bugs, carpet beetles, centipedes, crickets, earwigs, grasshoppers, millipedes, scorpions, slugs’ water bugs, and many other creepy crawly insects.

Boric Acid is the "secret ingredient" in so many commercial treatments for insect control.  While in its non-diluted form, Boric Acid is odorless and non-staining.  This solution has many interesting and useful characteristics, as well.  A few of these benefits include use as an insecticide AND a preservative. This simple, inexpensive household chemical is deadly to all insects. It has been shown to attack their nervous systems, as well as being capable of drying their bodies.  In combination with certain chemical solvents (such as propylene glycol), it may migrate slightly into such objects as wood and concrete, providing some degree of lasting protection.

Commercial developments of similar products are Bora-Care and Boric Acid type insecticides & products.  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has classified propylene glycol as an additive that is “generally recognized as safe” for use in food. It is used to absorb extra water and maintain moisture in certain medicines, cosmetics, or food products. It is a solvent for food colors and flavors and is best known as auto anti-freeze.  As a general household insecticide it is safe enough to use around children, and has been used in ointments and salves for diaper rash on babies. It is also used, in a very dilute solution, as eyewash.