Insecticidal soap is the safest of all natural based pest controls. Made from naturally occurring plant oils, the soap disrupts the waxy outer skin of soft-bodied insects, causing dehydration and death.
Beneficial insects such as ladybugs and praying mantis are hard-bodied and not affected by the soap.
Insecticidal Soap is a contact insecticide and has no residual activity. It is readily broken down by light, so there is no soap residue.
Insecticidal soap can be used up to the day of harvest on all edible plants.
Labeled for use on aphids, leafhoppers, plant bugs, whitefly, mites, squashbug, harlequin bug and grasshoppers on fruits, vegetables and ornamentals.
Ready-To-Use contains 2.00% Potassium Salts of Fatty Acids and 98.00% inert ingredients.
Kills aphids, mealy bugs, whiteflies, thrips, scale and mites and mites on foliage plants, flowers, shrubs, trees, vegetables, fruits and nuts in and around homes, and home green houses.
Primarily designed for the greenhouse and for use on house plants where a natural ecological balance is difficult to achieve, "safer soap" can also be useful in the garden to control infestations of specific pests until natural predators arrive. Seaweed extract boosts the plants natural resistance to infestation.
Mother Earth News: Feb/March 2006: Organic Pest Control By Barbara Pleasant:
''Best Organic Treatment: Insecticidal soap, such as Safer Insect Killing Soap, which breaks down the pests’ protective cuticles so they quickly become dehydrated. Repeat applications may be needed, and leaf tissues of some plants may be damaged, especially in very hot weather.'' |