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• KILLS FLEAS
• Odorless, Patented, Non-Staining
• Extremely fine powder
• Kills Roaches
• Kills Ants
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 4.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 87 reviews |
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117 of 119 found the following review helpful:
 Potential side effects for cats:Dec 14, 2009
By Rainy Days & Mondays
"California Dreamin"
I currently have 5 healthy indoor cats. They range from 6-years old to seven months. The two younger cats I had up for adoption for a few weeks along with their littermates at a local cat rescue shelter. During their stay at shelter they must have picked up some fleas. I used a flea comb on a kitten last week and noticed a bit of flea dirt. I treated all the cats with Advantage (Flea control) and washed and sterilized all their bedding along with practically everything else in the house that was washable. As a last step to preventing any major flea outbreak I ordered a 3-lb container of Fleabusters RX from Amazon.com. I followed the manufacturer's directions while applying it to my carpets. I thoroughly raked it deep into the carpet. Because of cold winter weather and dry inside air, my home is currently charged with static electricity. So much so that when I pet my cats their fur snaps and pops with static. Apparently because of the static, the Fleabusters powder was sticking to my cats after they crossed the freshly treated carpet. My shinny black cat was covered with a fine talcum coating of flea power especially near his legs and paws. While I was out for the evening, my statically charged cats must have continued to play with their toys and roll on the carpet picking up additional flea power in their fur. When I got home late that evening the first cat started throwing up. Then, all through the night I was constantly awakened by all five cats retching and vomiting. The frequent vomiting continued throughout the next day and was joined by extreme water like diarrhea. I contacted the Emergency Poison Control Center, paid their $30.00 fee and I was told my cats were experiencing all the symptoms of Orthoboric poisoning (Active ingredient in Fleabusters RX.) I contacted Fleabusters and explained to them how my cats were poisoned by their flea power. Fleabusters assured me that mine was a unique experience and promised they would research this incident. Because cats are fastidious cleaners and lick themselves constantly there is always a chance under the right conditions that Fleabusters RX, or any other flea power or even talcum powder, could harm your cat if it ingests enough of it. My cats are all young and healthy so they should fully recover with no long term side effects. Old, sick and very young cats might be more at risk. If you are concerned about your cat ingesting this power you may want to keep your cat confined to one room while you treat the rest of your carpet. Then, after a few days you can start vacuuming again and most of the loose power will be gone. Once the loose power has been vacuumed you could then allow your cat access to the treated carpet.
67 of 68 found the following review helpful:
Gentle and effectiveMay 21, 2007
By Kelsey Holmes
I had a serious flea problem. My 10 month old daughter had bites all over her body, I had bites all over my ankles, and my cat's fur was littered with flea eggs. Because my daughter is very sensitive, this was the only product which her specialist approved for treatment of the home.
Application was a lot of work; it wasn't difficult, just time consuming and involved a lot of furniture moving. I can see why fleabusters charges $200 to treat a home. However, as soon as you're done treating an area, it's safe for animals and kids to enter the room, much unlike bug bombs or a call to the exterminator.
As the label indicates, it did take a few weeks to see full results. The appearance of flea bites significantly decreased after application and slowly declined from there. It's been a month since I applied the powder and I haven't seen any bites on my daughter in over a week.
A week after application my daughter and I weren't getting bit very much, but my cat still had a lot of fleas on her so I gave her Advantage flea drops. The drops instantly killed the fleas on her and within a week our flea problem was a distant memory. So my suggestion is to use both products to help speed up the process. (I tried Frontline flea drops before Advantage and they didn't work at all)
Effectiveness: 5 stars
Speed of effectiveness: 3 stars
Gentleness: 5 stars
Overall: 4 stars
41 of 41 found the following review helpful:
 Product definitely worksDec 07, 2007
By J. Ferrall
This fall, our dog brought a good number of fleas into the house, and because we didn't catch it right away, they ended up spreading through the entire house. We were getting bites on our ankles and legs and were literally miserable.
After doing a good deal of research on various treatment options, we decided to try the Fleabusters Rx For Fleas due to the fact that we have young children and liked the idea of not using chemicals that could harm those in the house. We ordered two containers as we have a large house, 3000+ sq. ft. We only used about 1/2 to 2/3 of the first container to treat the house, so a container does go a long way.
We followed the directions on the container as far as moving furniture and using a push broom to work it into the carpet. After the first week, with normal vacuuming, the number of fleas had reduced some. By the end of the second week, we found the occasional flea, but nowhere near the number we were seeing. Now it's been a month, and we have not seen any fleas at all over the past week.
I would highly recommend this product to anyone who has a flea problem, or even if you don't have a problem, as a preventative measure to ensure a problem never starts. While it does take a while to start working, I am truly impressed with the end results. We will definitely continue to use this product in the future to prevent a recurrence of the flea problem we encountered.
32 of 36 found the following review helpful:
 As a mother and Pediatrician ... PLEASE BEWARE of this company,Oct 05, 2011
By PediMom
My husband (a Paramedic) and I (a Pediatrician) have been battling fleas in our new home for a while and with our baby getting bites we decided we needed to try something different then the usual sprays, but at the same time something "safe" since we had a baby. We did a lot of research and found great reviews of the Fleabuster Rx for Fleas powder.
We went to the "Fleabusterca.com" site since we live in California, as well as the main "Fleabuster.com" website.
Spoke to a "Rhonda" at the California branch at length, including their guarantee of, to quote exactly from their own website:
"If you wish to purchase the powder it can be purchased from many local veterinary practices or by contacting our office directly. If you purchase the powder directly from Fleabusters of California and for any reason you choose not to do it yourself or were not satisfied with the results obtained by doing it yourself, Fleabusters of California will deduct the cost of the powder from the cost of your service. If you purchase the powder from an alternate source we will offer you a credit towards your service, but amount of the credit will vary depending on many factors. "
We also checked the guarantee from the main Fleabuster.com site which states (copied and pasted directly from their website):
"The Fleabusters Guarantee is Unequaled in the Industry
* The Fleabusters 'One Year' satisfaction guarantee is truly unconditional. Any customer, for any reason, can request one of the guarantee options.
* The guarantee provides for a full refund if not satisfied -- or product replacement if it should not last for a full year (usually lasts longer) and, the most important option -- credit toward in home services should the customer determine the installation procedure was not for them! (available only in areas with a local Fleabusters service center)"
Given these written guarantees from both the main company (Fleabusters.com) as well as the California center (Fleabustersca.com) and reassurance from Rhonda we purchased 3 containers directly from the main branch on 9/13/2011.
We received the product promptly, but after applying the 1st tub (exactly as instructed) we realized that (1) there was much less than the 3 pounds advertised in each container and (2) There was dusty residue everywhere that would not vacuum up. As a results everyone in the house, including the baby was coughing and covered in dust. Mind you that when I discussed Fleabusters with Rhonda that she stated that this would not happen and in fact according to her the powder was so safe that no one would have to leave the house even during the application.
We were very unsatisfied with this product so we called Rhonda (1-800-765-3532) on 9/30/2011 & 10/3/2011 and requested that we would like a credit towards a professional application, to which she spoke to her supervisor "Pam" and they said no. I quoted their website and they kept telling me that they could not credit me for buying a product from their main provider because the main provider was in Florida and they were located in California, even though on their own website there is no mention of this. In other words they refused to honor their own written guarantee. They told me to call the main branch in Florida which I did.
I spoke to Cathy in Florida (1-800-666-3532) who spoke to her supervisor "Bob" who told me to call Pam back and said Bob said it was ok. I called Pam and she said Bob had no say on what they did in California. I left several messages and was promised by both Rhonda and Cathy that Bob and Pam would discuss this and come up with a fair solution. I also emailed the email address on the websites, but I never heard back from either of them.
So I called back on 10/4 and got hold of Bob who I discovered is really "Robert Yardev" - the president of Fleabusters.com (aka Rx for Fleas). He said he was surprised that the California branch wouldn't take a credit but he couldn't do anything. I then requested a refund to which he said since we used some of it we could not get a refund. When I asked if we didn't use some how would we ever know if it was effective or if their were problems with it to which he said that wasn't his problem and once we used the product they would not refund the money, even thought their own written website explicitly states they would. Per Bob " I would have to do what I had to do."
I was floored by his response and realized I had little recourse given I had just spoken to the president of this company himself and this was the response I had just gotten. So I contacted both the BBB and Consumer Affairs Office in Florida and I found out I could not file a complaint without a physical address. So I went to their website and there is NO address to be found! Only an email, which is to "Bob" directly and a 1-800 number, again to Bob. There was no other way to contact this company. With no address I was told by the BBB and Consumer Affairs Office I could not file a complaint.
At this time I attempted to contact Cathy, Bob, Pam and Rhonda for an address and they refused to give it to me. I then contacted the other California branches but soon realized they were all manned by the same set of people! In other words, I called 3 different service centers in California numbers (San Francisco, Los Angeles and Contra Costa) and Rhonda picked up the phone each time. I realized we were likely scammed by a this company pretending to be something they are not.
I then called the credit card company I paid Fleabusters with and put a stop payment for fraud and was able to obtain an address.
6555 NW 9th Ave # 412
Ft Lauderdale
Florida, 33309
At this time I recontacted the Consumer Affairs Office in Florida and spoke with Craig Brant and discussed this case and gave him their address to file a complaint.
The money is the least of my concerns.
The major concern I have as both a mother and a Pediatrician is: If this company is so misleading and dishonest in terms of their own written guarantee, how sure can I be about the true safety of their product and can I truly trust them regarding what is in it or not in it?!"
Given the numerous positive reviews on how effective it is, I won't doubt it's effectiveness. But at what cost? Did they put something in it more than just boric acid? At this time I recontacted them and asked for either a patent # or manufacturing ID # to confirm their formulation as what they advertise is in it. I was met with resistance and denied that request.
Now I have a house covered with this mysterious white powder coming from a dishonest company causing members of my family to have symptoms with little recourse.
It is NOT worth putting this product in your home, or near your family, when there are doubts about the veracity and authenticity of the company much less the product itself and no recourse for independent authentication of what exactly is in this product.
Work with Fleabusters and Fleabusters California at your own risk, both financially as well as medically.
151 of 193 found the following review helpful:
Be carefulDec 10, 2007
By Jaw
I had a bad flea problem last year after getting a puppy. this year, i managed it by getting a new dyson vacuum cleaner, vacuuming very frequently (vacuum cleaner very easy to use) and giving my dog Revolution and Capstar. But after the bad experience last year, i wanted to be protected so i decided to have Fleabusters come out to put their boric acid dust in my carpet, hoping i wouldn't have to give any more revolution and Capstar. But by the time they came out, i didnt' have any fleas. I do believe it works, buti can't base this on my experience because they were already gone.
Fleabusters sent a man to apply the dust. Before he started, he held a canister in his hands, not the can with the dust in it but a long narrow one that got smaller at each end, and seeing me staring at it, he said "This is a liquid i'm going to spray under your beds, in your bathrooms and on your furniture." I asked what it was and he said pyrethrins. I wasn't sure what that was but i assumed it was part of their process.
It took about an hour for him to spray the liquid and spread the dust. I waited outside, watching him through the sliding glass door. When i came back in, he gave me a copy of the invoice, $225, which had a guarantee on it that was different from the guaranty on their website, although i didn't notice it at the time. On the website it says if you're not satisfied for any reason, you can have a refund, unconditional. On the paper they gave me, it said if you're not satisfied, they reserve the right to retreat your place before considering a refund.
That afternoon, i developed a burning sensation in my upper respiratory tract. There was fine white dust all over everything. I was told i could vacuum the next day. I figured this would clear up. I vacuumed the next day. The irritation continued. It was a mild irritation. I didn't like it but i figured with all that dust in the air, it was just something that would happen and it would go away.
Two weeks later, i still had the mild burning sensation. It wasn't bad but it worried me. I called the company that had come out to my house. i left a message. My call was not returned. I called again the second day and spoke to the owner on the phone. He said that it would go way soon, "we see this some times," he said some people are allergic, but i don't think it was an allergy. I don't have any allergies and i dont' have any chemical sensitivities, i'm healthy, i haven't missed a day of work in at least 10 years, i don't get colds or i get over them really fast, no coughs, etc. but this burning sensation just didn't get any better.
I asked him why pyrethrins had been used when it didn't say anything about that on their website or when you call on the phone. He said there was no possible way the man used pyrethrins, he said the man must've must mispoke when he told me that, must've been distracted and had a lot on his mind. this wasn't very reassuring to me, since the man looked right at me and said pyrethrins.
But i wasn't really worried about pyrethrins because i had looked them up on the web and it said they break down rapidly in heat and light and air so i figured they weren't there anymore, and i figured it was just the boric acid dust, which kept coming up into my vacuum cleaner canister in great amounts. i was surprised it didn't decrease.
I asked if cleaning my carpet would help and he emphatically said yes, and he said that although on my guarantee it says that washing the carpet would void my warranty, this was incorrect, washing the carpete would not make the product ineffective and would not void the warranty. He then put it in writing and faxed it to me. I had the carpet washed that day, but unfortunately, the burning sensation continued.
After a couple of weeks i called him again to ask for help in finding out information about what i should do and how to remove this product. My call was not returned. I called each day. Nice pleasant people took my messages and said they were sorry my call hadn't been returned. I left voice mails. Then, i called the company that makes this product, not the guy who applied it but the main company, and left a voice mail asking someone to call me and give me more information about the product and how to get it so it was no longer getting stirred up into my air. My call was not returned, so i emailed them. I got an email reply saying they had forwarded my email to the guy who was not returning my calls, as i had already told them. I emailed them again and asked for the guy's email which they gave me and i emailed him, asking for more information about removing the product or somehow getting it out of the air. He didn't reply. His wife did reply to one of my voice mails and left me a message saying that he recommended that i get a respirator mask and use it while vacuuming and that that would help. it didn't help.
I now know the respirator mask didn't help because you can't take it off. After you vacuum you should keep it on, i didnt' know this but i know now more than i ever wanted to about boric acid, fine dust, pyrethrins, permethrin, and their hazards. Fleabusters boasts on their website that this is an extremely finely milled dust, they refer to it as microscopic. dust that fine does not quickly settle down after it's been stirred up, it stays in the air for hours or more. if those dust particles are impregnated with offgassing pyrethrins, then that is what is being breathed deeply into the lungs. The body can't get this out. it's so fine, it penetrates deeply and may not cause symptoms immediately but can impair respiration later in life.
I saw my doctor and she said i had chemical irritant pneumonitis from boric acid. She said it's not an allergy, it's caused by a chemical in the atmosphere like happened in New York after 911. She said the only thing i could do for this was to not go into the place where i was being exposed. But it was my home. i have a job, etc. a life. she said the only other way of not being exposed would be to wear a respirator 24/7. You can't really do that though, those respirators are not made to be worn all the time, you'd be changing the filters frequently. you couldn't eat. those things are not comfortable.
The Fleabusters company was not helpful, they were quite uncaring. I reported this to the county agency that handles things like this. They interviewed the man who came out to my house and he told them he did not spray any liquid in my house. That was that, there was nothing more the county could do.
I learned that to have my home air or dust tested for pyrethrins, boric acid, and permethrins (which the owner said the man might've used) would cost me at least over $1000. I was also told i need to get rid of my beds and my upholstered furniture because pyrethhrins won't come out of that. I learned that while pyrethrins break down rapidly in light and heat, they wil not break down if they're under my bed where it's dark and cool, but they will offgass (a word i learned while trying to solve the problem that since Fleabusters came, my home isn't safe to breathe in anymore) and the offgassing will impregnate dust particles and be breathed into the air.
The Fleabusters owner did talk to me one more time on the phone and said it was impossible that his product could still be causing symptoms over a month later. He said he wanted to help me find out what the problem was and that he could easily come out and test my air. By that time, after him not returning my calls for 2 weeks before this phone call, i had called them and asked for a refund. Their website does say after all, if you are not satisfied for any reason, you may have a refund. By this time, i had spent about $500 trying to stop the exposure of whatever they put in there, carpet cleaning, respirator masks, 6 window fans, had missed work, used up vacation time, had suffered burning my lungs, and was definitely not satisfied. but when i got him on the phone, he said he didn't think a refund was appropriate because 'we haven't done anything wrong.'
He said he just cared about finding out what was causing my problem and could easily come out and test my air, in order to find out. I said i would really appreciate that. I already knew at that point that it would cost me a thousand dollars to have it done. He said he would get back to me in two days. He never got back to me so i disputed the charge on my visa card. That dispute is still pending.
This is a terrible company. I do think the product probably works, but i didn't have fleas before they came so i can't say. There is no technical expertise to help a consumer if there is a problem with the product. There is no communication. it's very hard to reach them, impossible to reach the main company in Florida, they would not talk to me at all, period, after i had asked them to provide me with the best information about what might be happening in my home, since they have the scientists that have developed the stuff.
Before i had them come out, i looked on the web for user reviews, to make sure it was safe. I found positive reviews about it working well. Only one person said it made her sneeze so much that she had to have her son apply it, she couldn't do it. So, i thought it sounded pretty safe.
I recently found a website called Only Natural Pet Store that has about 20 user reviews on Fleabusters. Most are positive like these here. But quite a few mention that the product causes irritation. I wish i'd read that before i had them come out.
I finally had to move out of my place, i haven't been staying there for a month and a half. I'm still paying the rent there. Whenever i go over there to get stuff, i get the irritation. Something is wrong with the air there, something Fleabusters put into my home. Before i moved out in mid october, back in late September, i went out of town for three days, and had no symptoms the whole time, but it started again within an hour after i got back. When i moved out, the symtpoms stopped, unless i go over there. i dont' know what they put in, and they won't help me to find out. maybe it's the boric acid dust, maybe it's the pyrethrins the guy claimed he was spraying and later denied, maybe it's Precor with permethrin which the owner told the air testing guy i was consulting with might have been used. i don't know. i dont' know if i really have to throw away my much loved beds and sofa and love seat and other furniture, the curtains, get rid of the carpets, i dont know. i hate to do that without first finding out what's in there. to have my life torn apart to this extent and not know what's causing it, i can't make peace with that, yet it costs so much to have it tested, i have to think about it some more.
i've learned that the Borax company who makes boric acid powder does not list the broadcast method as one of the recommended applications of boric acid. They only recommend putting it in areas like cracks and crevices, not where there is traffic by people and animals that might stir it up. It's not meant to be breathed and they don't list spreading it all over the environment as one of the recommended applications.
I would say if you have a family member, a child or a pet, anyone who is sensitive to dust or has any respiratory issues, think carefully before using this product. As the company says on its website, the dust is milled extremely fine. That is the most dangerous kind of dust exposure there is, and long term problems can be caused by it even if there is no problem in the short run. Again, i have no allergies, no chemical sensitivities, no illnesses, and all i have is a mild burning sensation in my upper respiratory tract if i'm around my home, beginning the day that fleabusters came. It may be that they sent an unqualified unprofessional unethical guy to my home to apply the dust and he sprayed something in there that he wasn't supposed to. But when i told the company about what the man said he was spraying, they just dismissed it rather than taking it seriously, it's not that the guy questioned that this man would have really sprayed something--he said "He must've sprayed liquid sodium polyborate, the same as the dust. there's no way he sprayed pyrethrins" why would i make that up? he didn't question that i was making it up. He just didn't care. or didn't want to deal with it, didn't want to be responsible for the man he sent into my home.
i wish i never had Fleabusters come to my house. it was a terrible mistake.
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