Posted by admin | Posted in mosquito control | Posted on 06-08-2009
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2 ounces vegetable oil
1 / 4 teaspoon of citronella and eucalyptus essential oils
1 / 8 teaspoon of pennyroyal, cedar and rose geranium essential oils
Combine ingredients and apply mixture directly to all exposed skin. Keep the oil away from eyes and mouth must be careful not to rub the right eye after applying repellent with your fingers. This repellent will keep at least one year.
The plant-based repellents are more pleasant fragrance than their counterparts in pharmacy, and their use is clearly preferable to rubbing toxic chemical repellents on your skin.
Because insects have an incredible sense of smell, the smell is used as a basic element in most repellents. Mosquitoes, ticks and many other crawling and flying pests hate the smell of the herbs like eucalyptus, pennyroyal and citronella, unfortunately, also very few people do. Combine these herbs and you end up with a good insect repellent is also sidesteps away from their friends. I found that the strong smell of eucalyptus and citronella becomes more enjoyable with the addition of rose geranium, but only for humans, not insects. Despite its sweet smell, rose geranium is great for keeping insects away.
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