You don’t have to resort to expensive artificial flea treatments, there are alternatives that are 100% natural.

Quick note: When it comes to treating your pet for fleas, be sure to set them outside for an hour if you can.

Fleas will jump ship if they have to and latch on to the next available thing, even if it’s you.

Leaving your pet outside, if possible for an hour, only prevents the scenario of a mass exodus towards you and your family.

Whatever you do, resist the urge to use human shampoo on your pets, their skin is different from ours and believe it or not, it can cause more irritation than dealing with fleas.

Even using what appears to be organic, harmless human shampoo can leave your pet with a yeast skin infection simply because it wasn’t designed for their skin.

So please do not use your Pantene or Tresemme on your pets.

These are the most common problems for pet owners: getting rid of fleas on your pet.

A great way to suffocate fleas is to coat your dog with baby oil or natural soap.

Let your dog act for 15 minutes, this will make the fleas rise to the surface in desperate search of oxygen.

In this state, they are dying and will be discarded when you rinse them.

vegetable oil

This is great for suffocating fleas and depriving them of oxygen. You can use a cup of olive oil, canola oil, sesame oil, or peanut oil. Any vegetable oil will do.

Make sure your pet is outside on the lawn. Take a cup of your oil, dip your hand in a tablespoon and rub it into your pet’s fur.

Get good coverage, all over the back, stomach, shoulders, tailbone, tail, legs, paying particular attention to the neck and back of the head, under the chin and chest.

Fleas will migrate to higher ground if they feel their life is threatened and that is where you will corner them by applying to the neck and back of your pets head, the fleas escape route will be cut off and they will be trapped, desperate. to escape

Just be sure to wash your clothes in hot water in case you bring the little runaways into the house with you while they’re trying to jump ship.

After you coat your pet with the oil, let it sit for 15 minutes, take a fine-tooth comb and comb through its fur, one row at a time to remove any fleas. There should be a lot caught on the teeth of the comb, then rinse.

Use a good degreaser or vegetable-based soap, lather your coat to remove excess oil and prevent pore clogging.

Bathe them beforehand to relieve your pet’s itchiness and reduce some of the flea population currently residing on your pet’s fur.