Lastly, as a bonus, you can put a few drops of essential oils into the room every few days to proactively keep fleas away.

Home Flea Powder 300 g from Zero In is a puffer pack treatment for living areas, carpets, rugs, pet bedding and soft furnishings in the home. Contains Chrysanthemum Cineraraefolium extract, which is not only highly effective but most importantly, 100% natural and safe to use around pets – even on pet bedding!Take the bag out of the vacuum cleaner, put it in a plastic bag, and throw it away outside your house. PRO TIPS: If you have a flea infested pet, they should be a priority before you even thinking about your carpets.

Depending on the methods they use, you and anyone else in your house, including pets, may have to vacate the premises for a bit. If you want to avoid chemicals, sprinkle some salt or borax over the carpet, let it sit for a day away, and then vacuum.

Dry treatment helps to avoid stains to delicate textiles and leave treatment areas with a pleasant fresh scented fragrance. Containing Permethrin as the active ingredient, the powder treats up to 10 square metres, and by killing both adult fleas and larvae it stops the lifecycle and therefore the infestation.

Then, go ahead and spray your carpet, paying extra attention to places your pet likes to be if you have one. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Sprinkling diatomaceous earth on your carpet is a highly effective way of killing fleas, and it's safe to use around humans and pets. So if fleas are bouncing around the carpet, they are most likely coming from one of these hot spots.You may have noticed that I left out borax from the ingredients, and this is due to the slight chance of a young child eating it. It works by cutting into the exoskeleton of the flea, and the resulting damage and loss in moisture spell their swift demise. If you are not using the room, or if you put a very light coat on the carpet, you can leave it down for as long as you like (provided it doesn’t get wet). Suffice to say that they are very effective at flea removal, and they work when these pests come into contact with them.