Homemade Natural Bug Spray
It seems like every time we go outside in the evening, we come back in with mosquito bites. Mosquitos are nasty and dangerous, so I went to our little market to pick up some all natural bug spray.
Until I saw it was $9 for a little rinky dink bottle.
So I made note of the ingredients and went home and made my own.
You need:
16 oz bottle of witch hazel-92 cents
8 oz spray bottle-$1
Lemon oil-had it
Citronella oil-$3
Lavender oil-had it
I filed up the spray bottle with 8 ounces of witch hazel, added 10-15 drops of each oil, shook it up and let the kids go to town.
We’ve used this every night after dinner when we go for our walk and so far we have not been a target of a mosquito smorgasbord.
Spraying yourself until it drips off your arm? Totally optional.
thedoseofreality
Am totally doing that. We used to have a service that sprayed for us, but then I decided I liked having food more so the service got cut from the budget! In the words of Charlie Sheen this solution is #WINNING!
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Deb
You can’t be serious. That really works? Huh. I will be going to the drugstore forthwith, then. All these West Nile stories are freaking me the frak out.
Pinning!
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ZDub
It works, swearsies. I found the citronella at Vitamin Cottage.
koreen
Okay, I’m so doing this. I can’t stand OFF, but it’s one of those necessary evils.
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Heather
Mosquitos are really rare where I live, but I’m kind of obsessed with your homemade products. I followed your laundry soap recipe back in April and I’m still swimming in that stuff. So…yeah…keep ‘em coming! Pretty please?
xae
Mosquitoes seem to find me even when I think there aren’t any around…I gotta try this
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Sally
Have you ever tried vanilla? I use it on the golf course all the time.
also the vanilla/sugar spray at bath and body. Works for some of us, not all