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Fels Neptha soap?
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Posted by bruggirlNW z8OR (My Page) on Tue, Oct 18, 05 at 13:04
| Hello,
Has anyone used Fels Neptha soap as an insecticide for spider mites or other pesties? Someone suggested it to me the other day. I have tried it, but it is too soon to tell. I think the alcohol/water spray just made them drunk!
Thanks a bunch! |
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RE: Fels Neptha soap?
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| I have some too but have not used it yet. It is one of only a few pure soaps that I could find. |
RE: Fels Neptha soap?
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| It seems to be knocking them out a little, but I wonder if I don't just have clean mites now! |
RE: Fels Neptha soap?
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| I sprayed some Safer soap on some plants with a lot of very small bugs on the leaves. They were so small that they were hard to see. The spray hit them and that was the end of them. They did not even move. Got out my bar of Fels Naptha soap and was trying to figure out how to get it in liquid form easily. Figured I could run it over my cheese grater and then soak overnight in water to see if it will dissolve. Then will put in in sprayer and go looking for game. |
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| Scrape off some of the soap and put it in a container and then cover the soap shavings with just enough hot water to cover. This will make a gel and once in gel form you need only take out a teaspoonful and mix that in 1 quart of water to make the spray. |
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| And the reason you don't want to use the commercial soap sprays is.........? I'm curious. |
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| There is nothing wrong with commercial soap sprays and in fact, they are good. The advantage of home made sprays is cost. Much cheaper. |
RE: Fels Neptha soap?
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| I weigh effectiveness and usefulness as part of 'value'. In my experience, the commercial insecticidal soaps are, in the long run, much 'cheaper' to use than the homemade recipes. |
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