What are the most effective home remedies for cockroaches in the kitchen?

The cockroaches aren’t very lovely neighbors, are they? There are a lot of home remedies for cockroaches especially in kitchen. But some people make a great mistake fighting with these parasites.

It happens when people use harmful and very toxic preparations for cockroaches. Some of them have the property to evaporate and accumulate as a steam on the furniture, fabrics and other things in the house. In that case all the households including the pets can harm them health. If you will overdo with poison for cockroaches, you and your family will pay for it with their health.

Toxic steam can reduce immunity and aggravate chronic disease. But there are a lot of home remedies for cockroaches in kitchen that are non-poisonous for human and pet’s health. Anyway if you want to live without these disgusting insects on your kitchen you must keep your house tidy and clean always. Don’t leave the food in free access. Remember perfect cleanliness is the enemy of cockroaches!

1. Boric acid for cockroaches in kitchen

The best well known home remedy is boric acid. Action of usual chemicals is directed to destroy the cockroach. And what about action of boric acid? Boric acid has a poisonous effect, which makes cockroach suffer from itching. The infected cockroach can survive, but he wouldn’t return to the place where it became infected.

What you have to do?

• At first you need to buy about 100 grams of boric acid sprinkle it all you can including baseboards, floor, walls, washstands, all the approaches to water (cockroaches can’t live without water while they can go without food for some time). Don’t be scared if boric acid gets somewhere, where your children or pets can reach. It is quite safe for them. Cockroaches feel the poison. They’ll try to avoid it.

To consolidate a success you can also dilute boric acid with egg yolk (counting on 40-50 grams of boric acid upon one yolk). Then mix everything well and sculpt small balls, dry them a bit during one hour and strew them upon the apartment. You have to choose the places, where cockroaches run the most frequently. The special tracks are left there on that places. Usually there are table’s or cupboard’s shelves, bathroom and toilet, pots with flowers. Smell of egg prevents them to smell the acid. And even simple touch of cockroach’s antenna to a small ball can provoke infection. After the cockroaches will gone, don’t take away the balls. Leave them where they won’t disturb you to prevent a new invasion of cockroaches.

2. Borax for cockroaches in kitchen

Borax is the sodium salt of boric acid. It is such harmless for human and animal organism like boric acid. But not for cockroaches!

What you have to do?

• You need borax, powdered sugar, starch and vanilla sugar. Counting on 200 grams of borax upon 60 grams of starch, 60 grams of powdered sugar and 30 grams of vanilla sugar. Vanilla sugar is used for strengthening the aroma bait. The mixture is diluted with water to the consistency of paste.

Here is another recipe. You need to cream potatoe and to add one boiled egg and one soup spoon of borax and mix. These mixtures are used like boric acid baits.