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No matter how clean your home is, you can still get a bed bug infestation. This is because bed bugs travel, and once they’re in your house, they feed off the sweat, blood, and carbon dioxide that humans and animals produce, so they stay forever.<\/p>\n
Frequently washing your bed sheets<\/a> may reduce their numbers, but using these strong natural home remedies below will eradicate them for good. I’ve tried every single one of these remedies and more when I had a bed bug infestation from buying an old mattress in college, so I’m sharing with you all of the methods that worked for me as well as some remedies that weren’t so effective.<\/p>\n This is the first step before you use any of the remedies below. Remove clutter and vacuum the entire house thoroughly. This ensures that you remove the bed bugs as well as their eggs.<\/p>\n Make sure to vacuum upholstered furniture, mattresses, curtains, boxes, shelves, and carpets. Bed bugs love to hide in obscure places, to make sure<\/a> to use the hose on your vacuum cleaner to suck them up in obscure nooks and crannies.<\/p>\n Diatomaceous earth is a naturally occurring sand that feels extremely rough and sharp to bed bugs<\/a>. Bed bugs have weak exoskeletons, so crawling into or over diatomaceous earth shreds them to pieces.<\/p>\n To use, sprinkle D.E. on infected areas and leave for 24-48 hours. It’s a slow process, but it works! After 2 days, vacuum up the area to remove the D.E. and the dead bed bugs.<\/p>\n Don’t buy food-grade D.E because that doesn’t contain enough arsenic and lead to be effective. I recommend getting a safe D.E. designed specifically for pest control, such as the Borax is a natural<\/a> household cleaning item that kills bed bugs by suffocating them. To use, sprinkle a generous amount of borax over your mattress. Leave it for at least 24 hours to suffocate the bed bugs. While bed bugs won’t eat<\/a> the borax, they will have a hard time breathing when they’re deluged in the substance.<\/p>\n You can also add borax to the washing machine when washing your clothes. The acid is a salt and will dry them out.<\/p>\n I recommend purchasing the Yes, alcohol is strong enough to kill almost anything, including bed bugs and bed bug larvae and eggs. If you use an alcohol dilution of 90% or more, you can kill bed bugs<\/a> on contact. I like to put alcohol in a spray bottle and spray bed bugs when I spot them as well as hiding places, such as nooks and crannies where they lay their eggs.<\/p>\n Note, however, that inhaling alcohol is toxic to your health and it is highly flammable, so use with caution.<\/p>\n Tea Tree Oil is a healthier alternative to rubbing alcohol and is anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-viral. It is not toxic to inhale, so you can spray as much as you want, although it does have a strong scent that can be off putting.<\/p>\n While tea tree oil cannot kill all bed bugs<\/a> on contact, but it is a strong deterrent and masks the smell of sweat, which bed bugs are attracted to. I recommend using undiluted tea tree oil and spraying your bed sheets and furniture with it. Some people who are sensitive to the smell can dilute it just a bit with water.<\/p>\n This can be used as a contact killer to spray on bed bugs, but it is not as deadly as isopropyl alcohol and it stains because it is a bleaching agent. I would recommend going with straight rubbing alcohol if you want a contact killer spray over hydrogen peroxide.<\/p>\n For some reason, bed bugs as well as many other insects are repelled by the scent of lavender and peppermint. A lavender and peppermint essential oil spray may not kill bed bugs<\/a> on contact, but the spray does deter them from your home.<\/p>\n Mix 10 drops of lavender, 10 drops of peppermint oil, and 20 drops of water in a spray bottle. Spray liberally where you think bed bugs may reside.<\/p>\n I recommend going to a health food store like Whole Foods, Sprouts, or Nugget to purchase essential oils as there are many knock-off brands online that sell diluted oils. If you must buy online, I trust Healing Solutions. I use their Sprinkling baking soda over infected areas makes the area inhospitable to bed bugs because baking soda dries them out. This method will not kill them, and it may be inconvenient because you have to vacuum up the baking soda afterwards, but it works as a temporary solution to scare them off if you have nothing else on hand.<\/p>\n1. Vacuum<\/h3>\n
2. Use Extreme Heat or Extreme Cold<\/h3>\n
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3. Diatomaceous Earth<\/h3>\n
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4. Borax<\/h3>\n
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5. Rubbing Alcohol<\/h3>\n
6. Tea Tree Oil<\/h3>\n
7. Hydrogen Peroxide<\/h3>\n
8. Lavender and Peppermint Oil<\/h3>\n
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9. Baking Soda<\/h3>\n
10. Bleach<\/h3>\n