Essential Oil Insect Repellent Mixtures

By Karen Wood


The winter was so long and exhausting, but summer finally came, bringing millions of nasty insects. These blood sucking vampires surrounded your houses, making it impossible to enjoy spending time outside. And, it is really quite simple to repel them, using pure and simple ingredients. Making original essential oil insect repellent will be simple and funny, and the results will be just amazingly good.

There are some plants that naturally repel certain insects. For example, mosquitoes don't like peppermint, lemon, eucalyptus or Thyme. They won't be coming near cinnamon, geranium or sage either. Clove can also be effective in scaring them away, or maybe rosemary and lavender. These lovely essential oils can be used to create beautifully scented repellents.

Other nasty creatures such as flies cannot bare tea tree oil, and won't appreciate being near peppermint or eucalyptus either. They especially dislike cedar wood, and don't like Patchouli, and all these info can be cleverly used to protect you and your family members and friends this summer. Keep in mind that there are some other plants that will appeal certain insects, and one of such plants is known as lemongrass. It is well-known that bees just love it.

Ticks, on the other hand, dislike plans such as geranium, cedar wood, peppermint and popular tea tree oil. Thyme is another plant ticks will gladly avoid, and all this can be used in protecting your family efficiently. The best thing is that you can make your own, personal mixtures, and create really appealing scents you will enjoy wearing.

Home repellents are really simple to make, especially rub-on ones. Basically, there are two ways of applying repellents - you can rub them in or spray them on your skin. Of course, you cannot apply essential oils directly on your skin, because some are quite hot, or could cause allergic reactions. They should be combined with oil carriers such as coconut oil, almond oil or sweet avocado oil.

For making really simple rub on repellent you need some kind of carrier oil, such as sweet almond oil, or maybe avocado or coconut oil. Using a carrier oil is really important, because some essential oils can be quite aggressive on your skin, if you don't dilute them with carrier oil, for example beautifully scented cinnamon, or also eucalyptus essential oil.

For making a perfect rub-on insect repellent, you will have to combine maybe eight drops of selected essential oils in your favorite combination with two large spoons of desired carrier oil. There are numerous combination that will be really effective, and it is always good to combine peppermint with some other appealing scents. In any case, don't use too much essentials.

If you would rather have your insect repellent in a spray bottle, you will need something to additionally dilute the content. For this purpose you may use vodka or maybe witch hazel, and combine this with enough of distilled water. Oils could clog the spray pump without this. In any case, remember not to use lemongrass in any of your mixtures, because this smell attracts bees, and you certainly don't want to do this.




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