Many times I have read topics that discuss about dealing with household pests. As my house is not immune to these kind of insects, I am looking into possibilities of finding a more effective way to treat such without having to use insecticides heavily inside the house especially as I have kids. In my younger years, my father tried and exhausted all those popularly known products that is known to kill these roaches and mosquitos, but it was never enough and it is quite expensive too. After a while, we met an old man peddling a green solution in a bottle that he claimed as a non-toxic formula that could kill roaches big and small. The procedure was to distribute small cotton balls soaked wet with the sweet apple scented green thin liquid into wall crevices and dark covered places in the house. True enough, his potion worked magically and almost obliterated those pests including the litters on first application alone. What was truly amazing was that you’ll find them scattered in big numbers around the withered ball of cotton that used to be plump with liquid only few hours before. That was the first time we filled a large dustpan of killed roaches. Well, I don’t know whatever happened to that old man and his magic exterminating formula because after a few months and a few bottles bought, we never saw him again. I wish I had the formula so I could make it myself. I would say that it truly was the most effective means of ridding the house of those yucky little organisms because it took a long while after we have used up the last bottle before the house got infested again with these crawling objects.
While I can not find anything that could match the efficacy of that green thing, I think somehow I found a way to deal with those nasty crawlers that we see in the open. A few years back, I discovered what I call a non-toxic and hygienic way of dealing with those creatures that roam the house. I found out that I could kill roaches with simply soap and water, yes that’s right, SOAP AND WATER. Actually any water and soap solution will do. But for me, an excellent and more effective choice is ‘Axion’ or any dish washing liquid for that matter and plain tap water, about 1 part soap solution to 50 parts water is ideal or you can mix a stronger solution if you like. I find this a lot safer because this is what you use to wash the dishes you eat with, therefore it is not toxic. It is even a lot hygienic than splattering the gooey mess or spraying the toxic insecticides inside the home where most of the fumes are inhaled by people, it is even cancerous if inhaled frequently, not to mention the economy in cost. You just need a good spray/squirt bottle that could spurt the fluid in a straight and solid line to as far as maybe 3 meters and that’ll do the trick, but you should have a good aim, steady hand and at times you even need a good set of running feet if in case the thing flies toward you. I found this technic very effective as I even had a couple of pairs down while they were doing that thing — the act of reproducing litters. I got one pair photographed and there is no mess totally. I have been doing this for a couple of years since because I could get them down easier most times, even my 8-year-old daughter could do it. With insecticides they could run faster than the fumes and if you’re not lucky to bring them down, these roaches and the rest of their litters will be immune to the solution you used on them. Sometimes, when you try to knock them out with slippers or any hard thing on hand, they still survive and run even when they’re hit several times over. Think now of the goo they’ll be spreading around as they run.
Mating roaches killed by soap and water solution
Although there is no guarantee you’ll rid your house of these insects by this method alone, still this is one good way to get rid of those insects that are out in the open in line of your sight. It’s worth a try. For those insects lurking in the dark, you’ll still need to use one good brand of insecticide to get rid of them if you cannot afford pest extermination services like us, but you need to do this with extreme caution and just do it if people will all be out of the house.
