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03-06-2003, 07:56 PM

in article , B. Joshua Rosen
at wrote on 6/3/03 8:43 AM:

Have you tried the Safer pesticides?, they use fatty acids (organic by both
definitions).

The active ingredient in almost all Safer products is potassium soap.
Potassium soap used to be about all you could get when wood ash was the
principle alkali available. What bugs be is the high price charged for
potassium soap even though it is not a high demand product.

Bill