Posted on 06/13/2022 11:22:09 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Boric acid is a low-toxicity mineral with insecticidal, fungicidal, and herbicidal properties. Boric Acid, which kills roaches, water bugs, ants, fleas and silverfish. With boric acid powder, insects walk through the dust, ingest it, and die within hours.
While boric acid is a pesticide, you'll find boric acid used in fertilizers, household cleaners, laundry detergents, and even personal care products. You also may be surprised to know that boric acid is a component of a baby's mattress, and even food, but it is!
Boric acid is an antiseptic. The trick is that you must use boric acid in a diluted form.
Boric acid is also used as a home treatment for chronic yeast infections.
It may surprise you to know that boric acid is an antifungal. Dr. Josh Axe calls boric acid a "cure-all" of sorts. {works on athletes foot}
Boric acid is an herbicide. Boric acid controls algae, molds, fungi, and weeds and yet it's interesting to note that richest sources of boron include fruits, leafy vegetables, legumes, and nuts. Boron is present in all plants and unprocessed foods.
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“Dispose of the bodies of those pesky FBI types when they come sniffing around your cabin...”
That would be lime.
Really good cocaine.
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I also use it for a brazing and forge welding flux.
Always keep several pounds of it around. Bugs, Brazing and Blacksmithing.
Has many medical uses as well.
https://www.medicinenet.com/what_is_boric_acid_used_for/article.htm
Thanks.
Are you talking about borax or boric acid? They are different so I want to be clear which you are drinking.
Enough of what to dissolve it?
Are you mixing it with water or something else?
And then just smearing it or spraying it on the wood?
Just mix in water, I use a 5 gal sprayer and about a # of borax, stir well and apply to exposed lumber to keep bees from munching holes into it. Not for exposed or ground contact lumber, but good for under cover/ roof structures.
Chiggers don’t bury into your skin, they suck juices out of you like all nasty insects. The chigger bite is the wound, they, like ticks, inject nasty chemicals that then irritate you.
Prevention is the only way to, well, prevent them.
I usi suppose one could apply borax before exposure, but it dissolves in water, so sweat would mitigate it.
thanks!
Chiggers are a parasite for humans. They like to burrow into hair follicles as entry point to below skin surface.
You’re thinking about hydrofluoric acid, like Walter White used in Breaking Bad.
But lye from wood ashes can dissolve bodies when using high temperatures (e.g. 300 degrees F).
Preppers would typically make lye in order to make soap by combining it with fat.
But lye might come in handy to dissolve animal carcasses, Revenuers, and pesky FIB agents, in an apocalyptic scenario.
https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/chiggers
Other than the acts of climbing and “ biting”, they, don’t hang around like a tick....
https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/chiggers
Other than the acts of climbing and “ biting”, they, don’t hang around like a tick....
It is a great flux for brazing and welding.
https://www.popsci.com/homemade-laundry-detergent/
Snip... Ingredients
½ cup borax
1 bar of soap
½ cup sodium carbonate
2 gallons of water
1 ounce of essential oils (optional)
...snip
thanks!
We could have used 2000 Mule Team Borax on the Nov 2020 election.
bkmk
Lye helps keep odors down in the outhouse.
Boric acid and de work well together on bare floors, but not as good on carpet.
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