Homemade Tick Repellent?????What about other bugs! not just ticks

[Chickchic]

50/50 mixture of Vanilla Extract (real or imitation) and water. Completely safe and you can spray it on your face even. Might not want to wear white clothes and guys may not like to smell like vanilla, but my husband thinks I smell great!

 

[ticks]

50/50 mixture of Vanilla Extract (real or imitation) and water. Completely safe and you can spray it on your face even. Might not want to wear white clothes and guys may not like to smell like vanilla, but my husband thinks I smell great!

That is very easy.

 

[Ozark Hen]

I believe I can do this one I love vanilla.

 

[ticks]

I believe I can do this one I love vanilla.

ummmm. Who doesn't?

 

[ticks]

Ok, I am making some of that vanilla water stuff.

 

[dacjohns]

I don't know if this helps but when we send care packages overseas for the soldiers some of the things they request are flea and tick collars. The kind you buy for your dogs.
They wear them around their wrists and ankles. I have never heard of that before until I got the wish list.
If you think they are getting in through your shirt collar, you could wear one around your neck if you could find one large enough. I know that sounds like I am joking, but who will see it anyway, your collar should cover it.
Since you get them so bad, I would be wearing 5 of them at a time. The wrists, ankles and neck.

Bad idea. If I would have ever caught or heard of any of my soldiers wearing these there would have been heck to pay. There was always the urban legend of wearing flea and tick collars but I never saw it done. It is a poison that is absorbed into the body and is not approved for human use.

Sometimes those wish lists are made by well meaning but not knowing people, not by the service members themselves.

Please do not use them on humans.

 

[dacjohns]

This stuff. I've used it. Don't use too much though, the scent is strong.

http://www.repel.com/ProductCategories/Insectrepellents/LemonEucalyptus/

It also performed well in tests, much better than citronella which was almost ineffective.




The is a difference between insecticide and insect repellents. One is a poison the kills the insect and the other messes up its sensory systems.
Raid is an insecticide. You wouldn't spray Raid on yourself would you.

 

[ticks]

Thanks dacjohns. I will try that if I can't find a recipe to make it homemade. THat looks pretty natural.

 

[dacjohns]

No problem ticks.


Some more on the flea and tick collar thing.

http://www.afpmb.org/coweb/guidance_targets/ppms/flea and tick collar fact sheet.pdf

http://www.dix.army.mil/PAO/post03/post041803/Fleacollars.htm



Sorry for going off topic a bit but I felt this was very important.

 

[Joebwe25]

Great dacjohns! Thanks! Also Chickens work pretty good for mosquitoes and ticks!