Make your own insect spray at home with natural ingredients.
Instead of purchasing commercial insect sprays that contain poisons and chemicals, you can make your own at home with all natural ingredients. Many commercial insect sprays can potentially irritate your skin and cause harm to the environment. Insect sprays help to repel insects from our skin and plants to protect them. Once you make your own natural insect spray, you will help the environment and protect your skin and plants from insects. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
Plant Insect Spray
1. Place cheesecloth over a bowl.
2. Mince eight garlic cloves and one yellow onion. Place the garlic and onion in the food processor and puree them to make a paste.
3. Place the pureed onion and garlic over the cheesecloth. Keep the juice that remains in the bowl and discard the pulp.
4. Pour in 1 qt. of water. Stir to mix the water and pureed onion and garlic juices.
5. Add 2 tbsp. of cayenne pepper to the mixture. Allow it to stand for four hours.
6. Add 2 tbsp. of dish soap and pour into a spray bottle. Shake the bottle to mix the ingredients.
7. Spray your plants in the morning. Spray at the base of the plants, and saturate the undersides of the leaves.
Skin Insect Spray
8. Place a funnel on top of a spray bottle.
9. Pour in 1 cup of 190 proof grain alcohol.
10. Add the essential oils. Add 1 tsp. of lemon essential oil, ½ tsp. of lemon balm citronella essential oil and 1 tsp. of rosemary essential oil.
11. Place the nozzle on the spray bottle.
12. Shake the bottle to mix the ingredients. Spray them directly onto the skin.
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