[dangus]

>>>> low-toxicity ... with insecticidal, fungicidal, and herbicidal properties

>> IOW, not low-toxicity. But since that’s a relative term and I’m already checked out, OK, whatever...

OK, I’ll pull back a little here. Turns out that its insecticidal properties are, believe it or not, mechanical, not chiefly pharmacological. At the microscopic level, boric acid condensate has extremely jagged edges which get inside the exoskeleton and tear insects apart when they walk through it. Better yet, because it doesn’t kill roaches FAST, they travel to where their corpses are cannibalized... and the boric acid rips the cannibals apart from the inside out. Mwahaha.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

dangus :" At the microscopic level, boric acid condensate has extremely jagged edges which get inside the exoskeleton and tear insects apart when they walk through it."

Sort of like Diatomaceous earth, as an insecticide for crawly insects with an exoskeleton, as well as the slimy slugs in the garden.