Cockroaches are one of the most annoying insects and one of the most likely to find ourselves in our homes today. It is so easy to find them given their high capacity to adapt to various types of environments since they feed on any organic remains such as food scraps, cotton, woolen fabrics, paper, grease, garbage, or cardboard. They are more active at night than during the day and usually live on porous surfaces where they leave traces of their scent. This scent is responsible for attracting other cockroaches to the same area. Although it is very complex to eliminate cockroaches when they have settled in a specific location, we can use a series of home remedies to control these pests as much as possible.

Eliminate cockroaches through the use of home remedies

• A fairly simple home remedy to use as well as access is to place chopped bay leaves in all those places where cockroaches can enter. The key to this trick lies in the fact that they are unable to resist the smell of the plant and therefore tend to move away immediately. In a very similar sense, we can use lavender branches. This popular plant with a pleasant aroma is, however, quite harmful to the senses of these insects.
• Other solutions that we can find to keep cockroaches away from our house consist of making traps. To do this we can take a glass jar, grease its edges with Vaseline and throw pieces of potato, banana, or apple inside the jar. In this way, the insects are introduced inside the jar, but later they are unable to escape.
• Some heat treatments can also be useful as as home remedies to get rid of cockroaches. The ideal results in the use of extreme temperatures, so that we can eliminate the insects instantly. We can also place a mixture of sugar with sodium bicarbonate in the cockroaches’ favorite locations, a preparation that is deadly for them given the acid nature of their stomachs.