Sunday, December 19, 2010

Choosing Ingredients For Natural Pest Control

Your better alternative, is to create a DEET-free mixture by combining oils like eucalyptus, rosemary and citronella in an olive oil base. This mixture will smell great, and is soft, so you can use it on your children, and add it your skin after a bath or shower.

This way you can prevent insect bites, even if you go outside in the night hours, when mosquitoes are most common.

Other ingredients you can use when making your natural pest control are cayenne pepper, as it has antibacterial properties and can ward off mosquitoes and certain types of flies and caterpillars.

You can place this mixture on some of your garden plants, to keep your flower petals intact, and you can also use the ingredient in the insect repellent you place on your skin, because the smell is not overwhelming, especially when mixed with other ingredients.

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