First, you have to wash it off of everything you sprayed it on. This is what I did. I got a bucket with hot water, dish soap and baking soda. Since I sprayed all my windows with this crap, I put baking soda in all my window seals. Also use Borax if you have it. Every strong cleaner you can think of that eliminates odors and breaks down oils will be useful. Oh and hope you did not spray it on wood because if you left it over night it will be REALLY had to get the smell out of since the wood sucks it up.

Anyways, seriously scrub everywhere you sprayed it and light every candle in your house. Put fans on and open windows.

Overall, don’t buy this product or at least don’t use it inside.

I’ve been messing around with this stuff for the past half hour and I have come to a few *final* conclusions:

1) The smell really doesn’t linger for too long. Just spray before you go to work

2) This stuff *really really* has a hard time killing bugs. They clearly don’t enjoy it and I’ve killed many an ant, but anything bigger (except houseflies) just seems to be rather irritated. I managed to kill a rather tenacious pill bug I saw on the window in our kitchen, but only after //literally creating a pool around him after two failed direct sprays//.

Oh well. I know I’m eating most of my words from my previous comment with regards to it working etc etc but it is what it is.

I sprayed around my inner door frame though, at least that’s one thing I can see it being useful for (bugs clearly don’t enjoy it so hopefully it acts as some kind of repellent).

Not sure what I’m going to use the rest of the bottle for. Maybe I’ll go outside and have some fun spraying ants. Not sure what my roommates will think when they wake up; I got up before any of them, got bored and decided to test it out ¯\(°_0)/¯

tl;dr I thought everyone was wrong but turns out everyone was right: waste of six bucks. Still don’t really mind the smell though >_>

Secondly, there was a report of spraying a fly and having little effect. That’s strange, when I tested the product I sprayed a common house fly (don’t forget to shake shake shake it up first) and it definitely died within 10-15 seconds. Which brings me to my next point:

This stuff obviously isn’t RAID. That said, it’s clearly better than things that are just deterrents, like cinnamon. It definitely will kill any bugs you blast (assuming you got a functional batch – perhaps it’s manufacturing issues causing these conflicting reports).

Getting about halfway through these comments I am really confused at how sensitive people are to the odor. All I can speak is from the one bottle I have but I’ve sprayed it several times and while I agree it does have a strong odor that benefits from air circulation (and open windows) it is nowhere near as bad as using RAID or other *actual* insecticides.

I’m beginning to think that me and my chinchilla have some weird immunity to the scent (and chinchillas are notorious for having sensitive respiratory systems). Add in the fact that I suffer from seasonal allergies that seemed to actually *benefit* from the scent (cleared my sinuses right up) and I have no idea.

I guess what it boils down to is that this product is not as sensitive as a lot of the consumers who purchased it expected it to be (people with horrible asthma etc etc). While this stuff could clearly benefit from a good dose of Cyfluthrin it kind of goes against the whole “organic” vibe they have going on.

By the next morning, the chemicals in the air had given my wife a bad asthma attack. Yesterday she was on a trip out of town and I opened our windows and switched off the air conditioning all day in 100+ degree heat, in an effort to vent the house and have clean air upon her return. Still the asthma is back with a vengeance this morning. I just spent part of my morning attempting to sponge up the EcoSMART chemicals, but I can’t easily get to all the places I sprayed, so we’re stuck.

I found this site in the course of a search to see if anyone has advice for further steps to get rid of the EcoSMART chemicals from my kitchen, or advice on which of the following chemicals from the ingredients list is likely the culprit: 2-Phenethyl Propionate (2%); Clove oil (1%); Rosemary oil (1%); Peppermint oil (1%); Thyme oil (0.5%); or perhaps even one of the “Other ingredients” (94.5%, consisting of water [ok, that one's safe], potassium oleate, and lecithins).

Anyone out there have any experience to share on how long it takes for the air to clear? You other asthma sufferers, how long was it before you could breathe well in your houses after spraying this stuff?

Any advice that helps deal with this problem will be most appreciated.

Incidentally the company has a blog at http://blog.ecosmart.com/index.php/2009/01/14/pesticides-asthma/ ; most of what I posted here, I posted there; but that site is moderated (by the company I believe) and I don’t expect to see my comments appear in public there. Still, if you’re posting here, you might think of giving them some feedback there!