From last year's post:
"You can make your own with essential oils added to either oil, vinegar, witch hazel or vodka. To name a few, these essentials oil are known for their natural bug repelling properties: lavender, eucalyptus, citronella, lemon grass, lemon eucalyptus, peppermint, clove oil, rose geranium, cedar, neem oil, and tea tree oil." Read more here.
Update: I just harvested a huge bush of catnip, and I noticed here, it mentions that catnip is an effective mosquito repellent. I'll be trying this as well.
4 comments:
I missed this last year, but I'm going to try it this year. Do you know if it works for ticks too? What about sunscreen, do you use the commercial formulations or do you have one you make?
I wonder which of these works the best..?
Elizabeth
Trial and error...maybe everyone is different - skin chemistry, type and quantity of mosquito? We have mostly Asian tiger mosquitoes in our area.
Lily...I made my own sunscreen last year. I got some homemade safer sunscreen from Etsy, and then tried to copy the ingredients. It worked just fine, so we are using it again. I'll repost for you.
Not sure about ticks and homemade inspect repellent. Now you've got me curious... ;)My first thought would be that ticks are so tenacious that even DEET doesn't keep them away from a nice fleshy meal walking by, but I really don't know.
We have to spray our yard every month with organic pyrethrin(Ace Hardware). That stuff works very well - kills fleas too.
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