ORANGE GUARD PHILOSOPHY

We all have ant problems from time to time, I know I really did when I moved into my passive solar earth bermed home in Carmel Valley in 1983. I wouldn't use toxic insecticides because I was an organic type person. Then I read in Science News where someone had killed fire ants by pouring a citrus hand cleaner on them. Light bulbs went off. Now if I could take the orange peel oil and mix it with water maybe I could solve my ant problem. Alas, orange peel oil was insoluble in water. That is when research told me that most common emulsifiers, which are considered inert ingredients, can be really nasty.

My goal was an all natural food grade water based solution for my ant problem. Thus Orange Guard was born, out of my own necessity. Then I noticed that not only did it kill the ants but they did not come back, way cool. I had combined ingredients all found on the FDA GRAS list (generally recognized as safe) and water and this was an extremely effective insecticide without endangering kids, pets, lizards, birds or the environment. In fact you have to get to know those bugs personally and target them directly to kill them. Otherwise all it did was repel them. So no need to kill your friends (good bugs) to control an insect problem or leave a toxic bait which might be picked up and sucked on by a child (arsenic is a common ingredient in ant baits).

Toxic chemical insecticides do not repel insects either, they are just residually toxic (long term kill) which is often how they also affect you and your family. When they go into your body they lodge in the fat and don't come back out. Imagine your body as a tea cup and every chemical exposure fills it up. When the cup runneth over with toxins you become sick and most probably will not know why. Thus Orange Guard just isn't another widget, it is a tool which can allow us to solve one problem (bugs) without ruining the environment or making your home into a toxic waste dump.

If you have never tried Orange Guard then you should. If you are a believer in chemicals then your days are numbered. How full is your cup and when will it spill over? Children are far more susceptible to chemicals than adults, chronic exposure at even low levels can cause neurobehavioral problems which may be permanent. So avoiding chemical exposures is obvious and Orange Guard is the solution solution.

We are still learning all the ways that it can work effectively. What we know is Orange Guard dissolves the waxy coating on an insects exoskeleton clogging the spiracles (how they breath) and they suffocate. This is broad range both as an insecticide and a repellent. Pretty much if there is an insecticide spray Orange Guard in some dilution can solve the problem. At a 4 parts water 1 part Orange Guard dilution it is devastating to aphids, spider mites and other plant sucking and or eating bugs, nearly 100% effective. At full strength after 7 days Orange Guard is still 65% effective as a fly repellent. Orange Guard at full strength was more effective on German Cockroaches than a recently banned organo-phosphate toxic insecticide (although it is still allowed in agriculture) at all stages of a 30 day study in Texas public housing. In fact if your kids eat organic food they are 1/6 as exposed to organo-phosphate breakdown toxic chemicals in their blood and urine than if they eat conventionally grown fruits and vegetables. So my message is, wake up and smell the Orange Guard.

This philosophy was very well written by Orange Guard