No need to chase around bugs trying to smash them with a shoe or paper towel. Just a quick spray of this and they are dead and an easy cleanup. Plus it has a great scent.

Can use it safely on myself and dogs. Use it to kill household bugs. I even spray it in my garbage cans to keep flits away.

It takes months if not at least a year to know if you have gotten rid of bed bugs, they can go without "food" for that long, during winter months they mostly lie dormant and seem to be heat activated as far as feeding/hatching. Their eggs can sit hidden dormant for at least that long. Be careful of where you buy your furniture, as many of the delivery trucks and the furniture places themselves have bedbugs that's how I got them.

You are not going to get rid of bb's by yourself in one treatment or even over a month. It will take at a minimum MONTHS or even a year or more to do this yourself. If you want to spend thousands for an exterminator make sure they have a guarantee to get rid of them or they'll just keep charging you over and over. You'll need to use a few types of treatment and alter your lifestyle. BB's mostly do psychological damage. If you don't scratch and treat the bites with itching cream/ice/analgesic they will heal up with no scars etc You have to learn not to mind it too much and not get paranoid. Once you notice bites just go through a cleaning/spraying process and that will cut them down a bit and then the next time do it again, you can wear them down and win. You may need to get rid of furniture, luggage, shoes etc

I do know that bb's don't like cedarcide or cedar smell(you can buy cedar chips too) as this seemed to have stopped them dead in their tracks during "high" season for me. The smell is weird at first but I've always liked cedar wood smell so I actually like it once the cedar smell comes out. One thing I will say is if you are sensitive don't spray this too much in an enclosed space. I've noticed that it gives me rapid hearbeat and dry eyes/mild sore throat after spraying probably too much in my small space, so I'm not sure if it's too healthy to be in smaller rooms with this stuff after spraying, especially if you go to sleep. Make sure you air it out for an hour or two first before and have proper ventilation. Remember the FDA only says that the average consumer will be in contact with such small quantities that they don't consider it a problem but that changes if it's all over the place and you are around and it's not ventilated well etc

I recommend a two or three part system for getting rid of bb's as far as chemicals used.
1. Diatamaceous Earth around floorboards/edges of room, behind/below furniture. Kills mechanically so they can't "adjust" to it ever. Mix with Borax, baking soda or salt. Don't overdo this as this is silica and is not good to breath in, wear a mask while applying and let it settle.
2. Spot spray around your bed/desk or where you are when you get bite a mixture of 1/3 alcohol, 1/3 Pine Sol, 1/3 water. They HATE pine sol and alcohol, kills on contact. this is a very potent smell so don't overdo it.
3. Cedarcide/cedar chips
4. if you can use vasoline/petroleum jelly on your feet/legs or where they usually bite, it will trap them. Also put this on your bedposts or anything you sleep/sit on that touchs the floor.

The rest is just vacuum, minimize clutter, wash etc.
Places they usually are(besides beds lol):
around electrical outlets/power strips
floorboards/moldings
SHOES
luggage
by a desk you sit at a lot
headboards
upholstery
dirty clothes hamper/dirty clothes sitting

I like that it's natural, without chemicals. It does have a strong cedar smell, however. I recommend using it sparingly, at first. I spray it on the floors, carpets, and occasionally on the bed. I do notice that the flea problem is greatly reduced after using it. Sometimes I have to spray again the next day. It does need to be used often. The bottle says that it can be used on skin and hair. A couple of times, I did put it on my skin because the fleas were biting so much. It stopped them from biting. There was no bad reaction, even with my sensitive skin.

There are some problems, however. First of all, there weren't any exact instructions. The back of the bottle describes the background of the product, what kinds of insects it kills, surfaces that it can be used on, and other miscellaneous info. The original ad on KFI am radio says that it can be used directly on your pet. Some reviewers said that they did this with mixed results. For some, it was great. For others, disasterous. I decided to spray it a couple of times on my hand and put it on the back of my cat's neck--like a spot treatment. It did help him, but the fleas went to his head to escape from the cedar. So, I rubbed the residue from my hand onto the top of his head (between his ears). We noticed that sometimes he would throw up a few hours afterwards. He does clean himself a lot, so maybe he ingested some of it. While we were sleeping last night, he threw up about 7 times. We don't know for sure that it was this product that caused it, but we believe that it was because it happened more than once. Also, another reviewer said that their cat got very sick after it was applied.

So, I do recommend it for floors, carpets, bedding and other surfaces, but not directly on cats. It might be o.k. on dogs because they don't lick themselves as much as cats do.

Update on 12/31/12:

I highly recommend the Chicken-flavored flea killer capsules for cats. If you click on "see all my reviews" you can see it there or just search for the product. It's by Little City Dogs.

Best Yet is truly a fantastic product. As a breast feeding mother to a 9 month old, I must be very cautious about products and/or chemicals with which I am consuming or to which the baby is subjected. Shortly after my son was born, we experienced a very severe flea infestation. Although the yard was treated with pesticides before I discovered Best Yet, there were still lingering issues. I was completely alarmed about pesticide use around a new born and the fleas were trying to travel inside and take over. This occured while residing in a family member's in-law suite, and I not only inherited the flea infested yard, but a cock roach problem from the other area of the house (and the yard was rich with pine trees and oaks which pests love). When I received my first bottle of Best Yet (I think I've purchased 3 so far), the first thing that happen while unpacking it was a yellow jacket came into my living area close to the baby's nursery. I frantically sprayed it in the air towards the yellow jacket. The yellow jacket fell to the floor dead, almost immediately. Likewise, I sprayed it around the baseboards and the next day, several dead cock roaches. Every night I would spray and everyday, at least one dead cock roach. I sprayed my dog and no more fleas traveled in on her--and, her coat was really shiny from the oil. It also "oils" your furniture when overspray gets on it or if you spray the furniture directly. I've used it on everything, including my own skin. I can have total peace of mind about what type of product I am using around my baby. If he crawls on the floor and licks the floor, it does not matter. This is a "food grade" safe product. It is not some "Uncle Sam" scam where the FDA is approving a product they should not, as is the case with many harmful pesticides. This product is effective and my experience is that a little can go a long way. Not to mention, it works--and works well! Well worth the money. I'd say buy it in bulk, load your own quart size spray bottles to store about the house, garage, etc, and take a small personal size bottle with you if you travel to hotels and such to avoid bed bugs. It will make your place smell a little like a CLEAN hamster cage, because it is, afterall, CEDAR OIL and therefore smells like cedar chips, but once it airs for a day or two, the smell settles and it is actually a nice aspect to the product as well.