**Please note that the below recommendations are ONLY for Food-Grade Diatomaceous Earth. DO NOT consume Diatomaceous Earth or use Diatomaceous Earth inside the home unless it is clearly marked as “Food-Grade”
Here at Canada Bedbugs, we only sell pure food-grade diatomaceous earth that is safe for use both inside and outside your home.
Diatomaceous earth has a wide variety of uses beyond bedbug pest control.
Our diatomaceous earth is organic, edible, and great alternative to harsh chemical pesticides because it leaves no poisonous residue, is completely safe to animals and people, and is effective as long as it is dry and not vacuumed up.
How many uses can you think of for food-grade diatomaceous earth?
-Did you know that Food Grade Diatomaceous earth is a 100% natural and organic source of silica? Try sprinkling a bit on your pet’s food or even your own. DE contains 15 naturally occurring minerals that are excellent for the body. Arguably, the most important of these is silica. There are very few foods that contain an adequate amount to supply the quantity your body needs. Silica is crucial to bones, tendons, skin, cartilage and blood vessels. Silica is even located in the blood itself and important organs such as the liver, heart, and lungs. The average human body holds approximately 7 grams of silica, a quantity far exceeding the figures for other important minerals such as iron.
Silica also promotes healthier, shinier hair, skin and nails.
-Interested in organic gardening? Try mixing diatomaceous earth in a bowl with some water and using it to water your garden. Once it dries, the residue left by the diatomaceous earth in the water will act as an all natural insect repellant. Diatomaceous is a great method for preventing insect damage to your garden without using insecticides.
-Renovating? Sprinkle diatomaceous earth between the walls and under cupboards before putting up drywall and nailing everything into place.
-Do you get ants in the springtime? Sprinkle a fine layer of diatomaceous earth around your picnic table and near your doorway.
-Do you worry about fleas on your pets? Sprinkle a fine layer of diatomaceous earth on the favorite sleeping spots of your furry friend. Treat surrounding cracks and crevices, baseboards, carpeting, and anywhere fleas are suspected.
-Do you have issues with other creepy crawlies? Diatomaceous earth can be used to prevent and treat pests such as Earwigs, Millipedes, Centipedes, Silverfish and Cockroaches. Lightly coat a thin layer of Diatomaceous earth in the area where these pests are found or may hide such as cracks and crevices, behind and beneath refrigerators, cabinets, stoves, garbage cans, and in and around sewer pipes and drains, window frames and in attics and basements. Dust insects directly if possible. Repeat treatment regularly.-
More uses of Diatomaceous Earth:
Explosives: Diatomaceous Earth has its practical application on commercially manufactured explosive device. It was invented back in 1866 by Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who described the process as the packaging of nitroglycerine, a highly explosive liquid. Mixing nitroglycerin with diatomaceous earth stabilizes the explosive nature of the chemical. Diatomaceous earth behaves like a sponge which “soaks up” the nitroglycerin. Alfred named the explosive “dynamite”—derived from the Greek “dynamis” meaning “power” and patented it in 1867. Dynamites can be stuffed in calculated charges, carried easily, and, with the correct detonator, blasted safely. Dynamite explosions produce a “cool flame,” which is dull to ignite methane and coal dust mixtures abundant in mines, this makes it ideal for use in demolition and coal mining operations.
Animal Feed: Animal and livestock feeds may be combined with food grade DE to purge parasitic worms. It sustains better feed conversion; improves lactation while lessening breast inflammation. With 15-mineral components, hairs and furs obtain a healthier growth after consuming DE regularly.
Detoxification: Diatomaceous Earth is famous for detoxification. It sucks up methyl mercury, e.coli, viruses, chemical pesticide residues, drug residues and more. DE particles have negative charge, while bacteria have positive charge; many scientists believed that this facilitates the effective trapping of bacteria inside the DE structure and eventually excreted from the body. It is practically safe and cost effective in controlling parasites in humans and animals. Thus, developed countries like the US make use of DE as a dietary supplement. Dosage is 1 tbsp. each day for adults taken by mixing with milk or juice
Industrial Grain Storage: Food grade Diatomaceous Earth is carefully combined with stored grain to deflect insect swarm. It can be sieved out before using the grain, but sieving is optional. The applicable ratio is 1 cup of Diatomaceous Earth to 50 pounds of grain. Acres USA Inc. held a study on the effectiveness of DE against insects on stored grains, and established that after 12 months, the food grade DE treated grain had 15 insects. Identical grain keeping with malathion treatment resulted in 4,884 insects, and an untreated grain storage had 16,994 insects
We can count the wide array of discovered practical applications for this fossil-made dust from the past and who’s to say the findings stops there. Certainly there will be more of it in the future.
What other uses can you think of for food-grade diatomaceous earth?