Great Green Giveaway With EcoSMART

!!GIVEAWAY ALERT!!

Yep, you read that right, I’m having my first ever giveaway, but more about that later. ;)

I received an email from EcoSMART asking me if I had heard of their organic insecticides & pesticides, I had not but was intrigued by the idea. So I popped on over to their site to check them out.

What I found was all kinds of pest control products that are made from natural ingredients including essential oils. Sweet!

Now here’s the cool part, along with wanting to know if I had heard of them they also wanted to know if I would be interested in doing a giveaway for their Safe Home Value Bundle!



And my answer, of course, was “Heck yeah!” I mean, it’s about time some of you got some great free stuff too, right!

But I certainly couldn’t do a giveaway or write about products that I hadn’t tried yet so they sent over a bottle of Home Pest Control (which is included in the Safe Home Value Bundle) for me to try out.

According to EcoSMART Home Pest Control “Kills and repels over 100 home invading pests: Ants (including Carpenter, Red Harvester, Pavement and Argentine), Beetles, Centipedes, Cockroaches, Crickets, Earwigs, Fleas, Millipedes, Pantry Pests, Pillbugs, Silverfish, Spiders, Sowbugs, Ticks and other crawling insect pests.”



As you may remember we recently moved and now live up in the mountains. Well we have bugs here that I have never even seen before. Thing like, stink bugs, beetles, millipedes and oh yeah, scorpions. Yes you read that right, it turns out there are scorpions in the mountains, go figure! They’re not the big deadly kind you find in the dessert. Instead they’re fairly small and apparently it just feels like a bee sting if you get stung by one. Lovely, I feel much better now.

Plus there are still all the regular pains like ants, fleas, ticks, earwigs and spiders. Good times.

So needless to say I was pretty excited to be trying out this spray.

Well, I was excited to try it out until I actually started spraying and was then promptly told by Todd I was doing it wrong. So after only spraying around the back door Todd took over and did the rest. Apparently my master plan worked. ;)

You can use Home Pest Control inside as well as outside. We (as in Todd) just sprayed it outside this time. He told me that while he was spraying, all manner of bugs started to flee from the cracks. He also said it was especially freaky spraying under the house (read: master planned worked).

I would definitely be willing to spray it inside because of the ingredients listed:

• 2-Phenethyl Propionate .... 2.0%
• Clove Oil .... 1.0%
• Rosemary Oil ... 1.0%
• Peppermint Oil ...1.0%
• Thyme Oil ... 0.5%
• Other Ingredients* ... 94.5%
*Water, Octadecenoic Acid Potassium Salt, Lecithin

Now when I first read this I was a little worried about what 2-Phenethyl Propionate or Octadecenoic Acid Potassium Salt were so I immediately looked them up. I found that 2-Phenethyl Propionate is a natural botanical extract commonly found in food and that the chemical class of Octadecenoic Acid Potassium Salt is soap.

So what I found is a green product that, I believe, really is green. So I am very happy!

Ok, now onto to the part that you’ve all been waiting for; the giveaway!

One lucky reader will win EcoSMART’s Safe Home Value Bundle. The contest will run from Monday November 9, 2009 thru Wednesday November 18, 2009 at midnight PST. The winner will be chosen at random by Tyler and Dylan, my little green helpers, and notified on Thursday the 19th. Sorry, but the contest is only open to US residents.

For the main entry go to EcoSMART and then leave a comment here on the blog post saying which product you’d most like to try. This one must be done before any additional entries will count.

For additional entries:

• Follow @easyecotogo on Twitter and then leave a comment here with your @name = 1 entry
• Write a blog about the contest. Don't have a blog, email 3 friends & cc me easyecotogo(at)gmail(dot)com = 3 entries (leave 3 comments)
• Tweet about the contest (include @easyecotogo & #giveaway) = 1 entry
• Follow my blog = 1 entry
• Subscribe to emails = 1 entry
• Add my button to your blog (leave your site with your comment so I can stop by) = 1 entry

Be sure to leave separate comments on the blog for each additional entry!!

Also, please include your email with comments or if you’d rather, after you leave your main entry comment, email me at easyecotogo(at)gmail(dot)com so I will have a way of contacting you if you win.

Good Luck!

*Update: Facebook no longer allows bloggers to use Facebook for entries into contest/giveaways. Any comments that referred to Facebook for the entry will be deleted and not counted. I think this is totally lame and is something they will hopefully change.