Following Up

[badstar]

Some of you may remember this from last year...it's a recipe for some superawesome bug repellent. When I've used it in the past, it's been good for keeping everything - and I mean everything- off for about 5-6 hours before reapplying. Da bugz adore me, and it was highly amusing to watch them get a few inches away from me before flying away. Mosquitos, black flies,you name it.


As a base/carrier oil, you can use grapeseed, almond, jojoba, apricot kernel, or even olive oil.

5 oz carrier oil

Essential oils:

1/2 oz citronella oil
1/2 oz texas cedarwood oil
1/2 oz eucalyptus oil
1/2 oz lemongrass oil
1/2 oz peppermint oil
1/2 oz neem oil

mix 'em all together, shake before using. it can be put into a spray mister bottle. safe to use on pets, but try to keep them from licking their coat.

the stuff I used had grapeseed oil as the carrier oil. it's nice and light, doesn't leave your skin feeling all icky in the heat.

Note, these are essential oils, not scented or fragrance oils.

Comments

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Another note on this.

When the recipe was posted by a friend of yours on naturalliving, the people there balked at the high quantities of essential oils. Do you think that much of essential oils could be dangerous?

[fuego.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I've used it without issue, no one that used it that weekend seemed to have any problems that I ever heard of.

If one is concerned about the quantities, one could reduce the amount of essential oil. I'm not sure at what point it would become detrimental to the overal effectiveness of it.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

iyt also looks like the post was removed....