Medications "All Natural" Flea Control - Opinions?

What makes some flea control bad for exotics isn't always the active ingredients but instead the inactive ones. I personally wouldn't use it.

Buyer beware, not only are there potentially dangerous ingredients in the "all natural" flea control products, but they are completely ineffective. Remember, also, that you have to deflea the environment (ie: the house), as 90% of fleas live in the environment, not on the pets. Good luck, and keep checking the piggies frequently for fleas. Even if they have no direct contact with the dogs, fleas can move under doors or hitch a ride on your clothing into the pig's space.

Inert ingredients are those that are not considered "effective" and can include just about anything. I don't see anything in that list of active ingredients that would kill fleas honestly, I could be wrong though. Without knowing what else is in it, I wouldn't trust it. Flea control can be expensive, but if you treat your house to prevent infestations it helps a lot. I used Raid Bug Barrier while in Alabama (fleas are HORRIBLE down there) around my house, door frames, window frames and it kept out fleas and bugs. I also treated my dogs with Comfortis, which lasted up to a month and a half per dose.

Garlic is poisonous to guinea pigs. I think spending a little extra money for something safe and effective is better than saving a few bucks.

100% natural ingredients does NOT mean 100% safe ingredients. There are plenty of natural things out there that will kill you. The active and inert ingredients in any compound, whether natural or unnatural, are just chemicals. With a reputable compound that you buy, you're getting something that's been tested, and whose dosage is pretty close to what they advertise it to be. With natural compounds, there's no testing, no quality control, and absolutely no guarantee that the active ingredient is even present.

Several years ago, there was a big push on using tryptophan to treat depression. It's a naturally occurring amino acid in a lot of foods. But when someone finanally analyzed the pills that were sold, some of them had just traces of tryptophan, while others had many hundreds of times more trytophan than the stated dosage.

My thinking is that it's fine to use a natural compound for a lot of things -- aloe for burns, for just one example. There are many others. But if you're depending on a measured amount of something to treat an illness or a problem, you're better off with buying from a reputable, dependable company.

I do buy medications myself for my Guinea Pigs. I wasn't the one that bought the "All Natural" flea control. I'll tell her to return it, it was the inert ingredients I was worried about. The dogs are not my responsibility but I don't want them harmed. Thanks.

For the dogs you could use essential oils, lemon eucalyptus oil and peppermint mix 30 drops each to1 cup of water(shake really well) or alcohol as a carrier(shake really well). You can use it on yourself too. Apply daily.

I use (broken link removed) for my dogs in the summer months and a garlic/brewer's yeast tab in addition to an apple cider vinegar tab and food grade diatomaceous earth given orally year round. I've never had a problem with fleas and it's all totally natural. The diatomaceous earth is safe for guinea pigs.