curious_guy (imported) wrote: Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:38 pm
I just saw a TV commercial for FabriClear.com. They claim that it kills bedbugs and dust mites and that it is nontoxic. I have not used it and I have not read any independent reviews of it. TV commercials often make claims that are exaggerated or even false.
I wouldn't trust it, as I wouldn't trust anything not available in stores. I wouldn't buy anything advertised on TV that you can't buy in a store. I've seen how these thugs rip people off. A just $19.99 offer ends up costing closer to $100 after shipping and handling and the other free things are added on.
Rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle will kill bedbugs, probably just as well as this stuff will, but if one has a bedbug infestations, it's probably going to take a professional to get rid of them.
Growing up in South Africa with lots of access to the bush which meant every creepy crawly, multi-jointed, single celled, hard carapaced, thing you could imagine found us with regularity depending on drought, whether your mosquito netting was properly sealed etc. And one still had to mind scorpions and small vipers that found the interior of boots and shoes warm.
Based on the past two plus pages of helps I don't know what to suggest. We were always encourage to go Sea Bathing preferably in the South Atlantic as opposed to the Indian which was further down the coast to the East. You just lay in the shallows-we had sand, not a shingle beach-and used that as a sort of scrubber and the water coming and going as a rinse. Also there was pine tar everything. Soaps, liquids, cakes, etc. And I quite agree about never using anything that isn't purchased from a reputable source. The indigenous population would offer strange linaments and concoctions that you could either slather on yourself or cooked shrimp. Currently there seems to be a vogue for promoting the possibilities of having shingles if you've had chicken pox so possibly that's it. Give in to advertising, make them happy. I also remember having a mustard plaster used to excise some creatures that got into my hair on my chest and elsewhere. You have to let it harden and then pull it off. My hair did grow back, mostly but whatever it was meant to get, it got. We would watch certain animals to see how much they scratched and also the Ox Pecker that lived on Cape Buffalo were a good indicator of what was in the air. Or in the bush. Or wherever it was scurrying.
I wish I had better suggestions but, fortunately, apart from there, I've never had the sort of infestation you're discussing but great good luck in finding what it is and how to rid one's self of it.
Oh, just thought, there used to be a thought that said a cloth deeply soaked in buttermilk and placed on the area was "sovereign".....
