A few years ago Peta used a combination of pure essential oils on our dog for her fleas. It included Lavender oil, Tea tree oil, Eucalyptus oil and Cedar wood oil in a carrier. I recall being amazed at how effective it was. The fleas couldn’t jump off her quick enough.
The cat had fleas so I thought I would try just the Tea Tree oil with her, we didn’t have any other oil and I thought it might work. Well, it helped but didn’t work as quickly as the combination of oils. The oil on the cats fur made her look like she had the mange. She wasn’t too happy for a couple of days, but I figure it’s still better than putting a collar around her neck with extremely toxic chemicals. She looked quite miserable, poor little cat.
She might have forgiven me if the oil worked quickly, but given that it didn’t she was looking at me with that ‘I used to like you but now I hate you look’ that cats are good at for a while. I might have to go outside and pull up weeds to get back in her good books. That’s one of her favourite things. She feels safe from the neighbourhood bully cat while I’m out there and can relax in the sunshine. By the time of publishing this blog the fleas seemed to have cleared up but the combination of oils worked better (you can try orange oil too apparently).