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2. People are eating borax. Why? Here's what experts say ... - AOL

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   People are ingesting borax. Also known by its chemical name sodium borate decahydrate, borax is a salt typically used to kill ants and boost laundry detergent, among other household cleaning needs ...

3. Here's How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants Fast, According to ... - AOL

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   Experts share tips, including choosing baits and preventing them naturally (vinegar works). ... White vinegar can be used in a similar way as a soap solution. “It will kill ants on contact and ...

4. Here's How to Get Rid of Ants in Your Home and Yard for Good

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   Make sure you don't have any cracks or crevices in your doors or windows for ants to crawl through by caulking and sealing those exposed areas. Keep things tidy. Sometimes the simplest things can ...

5. Borax - Wikipedia

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   Borax is used in pest control solutions because it is toxic to ants and rats. Because it is slow-acting, worker ants will carry the borax to their nests and poison the rest of the colony. [ 23 ] Borax is more effective than zinc borate for termite control but a 1997 paper concluded that exposing at least 10% of the total colony population was ...

6. Insecticidal soap - Wikipedia

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   Insecticidal soap is used to control many plant insect pests. Soap has been used for more than 200 years as an insect control. [1] Because insecticidal soap works on direct contact with pests via the disruption of cell membranes when the insect is penetrated with fatty acids, the insect's cells leak their contents causing the insect to dehydrate and die. [2]

7. 20 Mule Team Borax - Wikipedia

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   Borateem, now manufactured by Dial Corporation, is a chlorine-free, color safe bleach powder but it has no borax content. Boraxo, also originally a 20 Mule Team product, was a borax-based powdered hand soap manufactured in the past by Pacific Coast Borax Company, then by US Borax via merger, and finally acquired by Dial. [2]

8. How To Get Rid of Ants From Your Home With 4 Simple Tricks - AOL

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   A four-pronged approach — clean, spray, bait, and seal — helped me get rid of an ant infestation.

9. Aspartame - Wikipedia

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   Aspartame is about 180 to 200 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar). Due to this property, even though aspartame produces roughly the same energy per gram when metabolized as sucrose does, 4 kcal (17 kJ), the quantity of aspartame needed to produce the same sweetness is so small that its caloric contribution is negligible. [10]