Original Biting Insect Spray

Best Yet is truly a fantastic product. As a breast feeding mother to a 9 month old, I must be very cautious about products and/or chemicals with which I am consuming or to which the baby is subjected. Shortly after my son was born, we experienced a very severe flea infestation. Although the yard was treated with pesticides before I discovered Best Yet, there were still lingering issues. I was completely alarmed about pesticide use around a new born and the fleas were trying to travel inside and take over. This occured while residing in a family member's in-law suite, and I not only inherited the flea infested yard, but a cock roach problem from the other area of the house (and the yard was rich with pine trees and oaks which pests love). When I received my first bottle of Best Yet (I think I've purchased 3 so far), the first thing that happen while unpacking it was a yellow jacket came into my living area close to the baby's nursery. I frantically sprayed it in the air towards the yellow jacket. The yellow jacket fell to the floor dead, almost immediately. Likewise, I sprayed it around the baseboards and the next day, several dead cock roaches. Every night I would spray and everyday, at least one dead cock roach. I sprayed my dog and no more fleas traveled in on her--and, her coat was really shiny from the oil. It also "oils" your furniture when overspray gets on it or if you spray the furniture directly. I've used it on everything, including my own skin. I can have total peace of mind about what type of product I am using around my baby. If he crawls on the floor and licks the floor, it does not matter. This is a "food grade" safe product. It is not some "Uncle Sam" scam where the FDA is approving a product they should not, as is the case with many harmful pesticides. This product is effective and my experience is that a little can go a long way. Not to mention, it works--and works well! Well worth the money. I'd say buy it in bulk, load your own quart size spray bottles to store about the house, garage, etc, and take a small personal size bottle with you if you travel to hotels and such to avoid bed bugs. It will make your place smell a little like a CLEAN hamster cage, because it is, afterall, CEDAR OIL and therefore smells like cedar chips, but once it airs for a day or two, the smell settles and it is actually a nice aspect to the product as well.

I love all of Cedarcide’s products. They are nontoxic and more importantly, they work. This spray is easy to use, no crazy smell and IT WORKS ON STINK BUGS! Literally no other spray kills them. Even the ones that say they do, don’t. Stink bugs walk off everything I’ve tried except this and it kills them immediately. Every summer has been a nightmare dealing with them. It’s not just one or two it’s a plague of biblical proportions. Hundreds hangout on my porch and you can’t sit, do any gardening or leave anything outside because they get into everything and anything you have outside and they cluster in groups. Can’t wash the smell off if you touch them. They are a menace. This spray has been amazing at controlling the amount of stink bugs that decide to hangout. If you have stink bug problems, this is your solution.

Second purchase. It works.

It takes months if not at least a year to know if you have gotten rid of bed bugs, they can go without "food" for that long, during winter months they mostly lie dormant and seem to be heat activated as far as feeding/hatching. Their eggs can sit hidden dormant for at least that long. Be careful of where you buy your furniture, as many of the delivery trucks and the furniture places themselves have bedbugs that's how I got them. You are not going to get rid of bb's by yourself in one treatment or even over a month. It will take at a minimum MONTHS or even a year or more to do this yourself. If you want to spend thousands for an exterminator make sure they have a guarantee to get rid of them or they'll just keep charging you over and over. You'll need to use a few types of treatment and alter your lifestyle. BB's mostly do psychological damage. If you don't scratch and treat the bites with itching cream/ice/analgesic they will heal up with no scars etc You have to learn not to mind it too much and not get paranoid. Once you notice bites just go through a cleaning/spraying process and that will cut them down a bit and then the next time do it again, you can wear them down and win. You may need to get rid of furniture, luggage, shoes etc I do know that bb's don't like cedarcide or cedar smell(you can buy cedar chips too) as this seemed to have stopped them dead in their tracks during "high" season for me. The smell is weird at first but I've always liked cedar wood smell so I actually like it once the cedar smell comes out. One thing I will say is if you are sensitive don't spray this too much in an enclosed space. I've noticed that it gives me rapid hearbeat and dry eyes/mild sore throat after spraying probably too much in my small space, so I'm not sure if it's too healthy to be in smaller rooms with this stuff after spraying, especially if you go to sleep. Make sure you air it out for an hour or two first before and have proper ventilation. Remember the FDA only says that the average consumer will be in contact with such small quantities that they don't consider it a problem but that changes if it's all over the place and you are around and it's not ventilated well etc I recommend a two or three part system for getting rid of bb's as far as chemicals used. 1. Diatamaceous Earth around floorboards/edges of room, behind/below furniture. Kills mechanically so they can't "adjust" to it ever. Mix with Borax, baking soda or salt. Don't overdo this as this is silica and is not good to breath in, wear a mask while applying and let it settle. 2. Spot spray around your bed/desk or where you are when you get bite a mixture of 1/3 alcohol, 1/3 Pine Sol, 1/3 water. They HATE pine sol and alcohol, kills on contact. this is a very potent smell so don't overdo it. 3. Cedarcide/cedar chips 4. if you can use vasoline/petroleum jelly on your feet/legs or where they usually bite, it will trap them. Also put this on your bedposts or anything you sleep/sit on that touchs the floor. The rest is just vacuum, minimize clutter, wash etc. Places they usually are(besides beds lol): around electrical outlets/power strips floorboards/moldings SHOES luggage by a desk you sit at a lot headboards upholstery dirty clothes hamper/dirty clothes sitting

Just returned from a 5 week long, multi-state camping trip with the husband and our pooch. I don't like to use Deet, as I have a sensitivity to chemicals, and I don't put those chemicals on the dog either. We used this product several times during the trip with pretty good results. I had no bites to speak of. The only thing to keep in mind is that it's quite strong smelling - you have to like the smell of cedar. It's also pretty darn greasy, which is not shocking since oil is the main ingredient. It does soak into the skin eventually though, so it's all good.