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Safe Mosquito Repellant

  • Yarrow tincture -  when outdoors spray skin every hour. You can also make a healing ointment with yarrow flower tops and your oil or fat. Yarrow oil is antibacterial, relieves pain, and helpful in healing all types of wounds.  A United States Army study showed yarrow tincture to be more effective than DEET at repelling ticks, mosquitoes, and sand flies. 

  • Peppermint is known to repel ants, mosquitoes, ticks, spiders, mice, et al.

  • Planting mint near your doorway acts as a repellant.  Placing clay pot planted with mint  close to your door works too.

  • Eating bananas  will draw mosquitoes as it increases the amount of carbon dioxide given off when you breathe.  Mosquitoes are attracted by this gas.

Warning: DEET is a neurotoxin and is un safe for children. It may not be safe for adults and the environment.  Avoid  using repellants containing DEET.

To make safe repellant you will need:

  • Pure Peppermint Essential Oil

  • Distilled Water or carrier oil of your choice

  • Glass or PET plastic spritzer bottle

To make a 2+% solution place 2 ounces of distilled water in the spritzer bottle.  Add 25 drops of pure peppermint essential oil to the bottle.  

To make a 5% solution add 50 drops of pure peppermint essential oil to 2 ounces of water.

Shake well and spray into the air, near doors, along the baseboards, or on your skin.

The 2+% solution may be used for pets.  Spray it on your hand and rub it gently on your pet, or take a piece of cotton fabric and tie it on your pet's collar, then apply the repellant to the cotton.  

We also suggest Green Ban herbal powder for people and pets.

Order your pure therapeutic essential oils from the Leaflady.

Viral remedy

Reported by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, and the same Iowa State University research group that discovered that catnip also repels cockroaches.

Catnip is a member of the mint family (ge)

Entomologist Chris Peterson, Ph.D., with Joel Coats, Ph.D., chair of the university's entomology department, led the effort to test catnip's ability to repel mosquitoes. Peterson, a former post-doctoral research associate at the school, is now with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Wood Products Insects Research Unit, in Starkville, Miss.  
Peterson says nepetalactone is about 10 times more effective than DEET because it takes about one-tenth as much nepetalactone as DEET to have the same effect. Most commercial insect repellents contain about 5 percent to 25 percent DEET. Presumably, much less catnip oil would be needed in a formulation to have the same level of repellency as a DEET-based repellent.