Home remedies to kill cockroaches

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One of the home remedies for cockroaches most popular is use laurel to kill them. The aroma that this plant gives off repels cockroaches and, therefore, if you place it in your home, you will keep these animals at bay. You can choose to place bay leaf in the areas where cockroaches tend to accumulate (holes in wood, garbage, etc.) so that the odor that is released acts as a repellent.

You can also choose to buy lavender and put it at home because, as with the laurel, the smell that this plant gives off is not to the liking of these insects and will drive them away.

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If you want to build a cockroach trap you should know that the use of baking soda with sugar it can be a very good option. Sugar is an ingredient that will be able to attract these insects, so if you mix it with bicarbonate, the toxic elements that it has will kill them in a few seconds. The most recommended thing is that you mix, in equal parts, the sugar with the bicarbonate so that the effectiveness is immediate.

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You can also create another cockroach trap using glue. Keep in mind that one of the materials where cockroaches most commonly nest is wood or cardboard, so take a piece of either one and apply a film of glue or glue over the surface. To attract the attention of the insects, you will have to put a little food or sugar that will act as bait and will get the roaches to be trapped.

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Another of the home remedies to kill cockroaches most popular and effective is the one you use boric acid. With it, you will be able to create a toxic paste that will immediately eliminate these insects. You will need these ingredients:

• 1/2 onion
• 1/2 cup of flour
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 4 teaspoons of boric powder (you can buy it at the pharmacy or drugstore)
• Water

You will have to mix all the ingredients in a container until you see a thick paste form. Now, you just have to apply this homemade product in the corners where you have seen the cockroaches and you will see how you see less and less until a moment comes when there will be no more. Above all, this home remedy is totally not recommended in families with small children or petsas it is highly toxic.

In this OneHowTo article we tell you how to make boric acid insecticide so that you can see the instructions in detail.

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To finish, another folk remedy that is often used to kill cockroaches is use ammonia, a product that you surely have at home as it is commonly used to clean and disinfect. To get rid of these insects you will only have to add a little ammonia to the water with which you normally scrub. Pass this water through the areas where they tend to accumulate and you will be able to kill them.

It is also recommended that, after cleaning, you pour the water through the pipes to ensure that if there are some there, they die immediately.

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During all the home remedies that we have just detailed, we have told you that it is most recommended that you place them in areas where cockroaches tend to abound, but what are they? Next we are going to list the most common spaces in which these insects are installed so that, thus, you can place the remedies that we have indicated in these areas:

• In the cracks of the furniture of both the kitchen and the bathroom since they are the areas of the house that tend to have the most bacteria.

• In the furniture of wood that you have scattered around your home.

• If you have cracks in the Windows or the doors that lead to the street, you should also pay attention to this area since this is where these insects tend to sneak in.

• On humid areas such as faucets in the kitchen, in the laundry room, in the air conditioning or heating outlets, in the pipes, and so on.

• Under the big appliances of the kitchen room: ovens, microwaves, refrigerators, etc.

• In the garbage or areas where there are crumbs or dirt accumulated.

This is why it is highly recommended that you keep your home clean and tidy to prevent these insects from sneaking into your home. In this OneHowTo article we give you some tricks to clean the house and get it in perfect condition.