Can anyone tell me a good home remedy for mosquito repellent? My back yard is full of mosquitoes.?

Answer 1

Any volatile plant oils, which can be found in a natural foods store or aromatherapy shop will repel mosquitos without the use of DEET. This include:

Citronella Oil
Castor Oil
Rosemary Oil
Lemongrass Oil
Cedar Oil
Peppermint Oil
Clove Oil
Geranium Oil

Answer 2

OK, mosquitos..

prepare to be repelled!!!!!

Use Bounce Fabric Softener Sheets...Best thing ever used in
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Bob, a fisherman, takes one vitamin B-1 tablet a day
April through October . He said it works. He was right.
Hasn't had a mosquito bite in 33 years. Try it.
Every one he has talked into trying it works on them.
Vitimin B-1( Thiamine Hydrochloride 100 mg.)


If you eat bananas,
the mosquitos like you, - something about the banana oil
as your body processes it.
Stop eating bananas for the summer and the mosquitos
will be much less interested.


This is going to floor you, but one of the best
insect repellents someone found (who is in the woods
every day), is Vick's Vaporub.


Plant marigolds around the yard, the flowers give off
a smell that bugs do not like,
so plant some in that garden also to help ward
off bugs without using insecticides.


"Tough guy" Marines who spend a great deal of time
"camping out" say that the very best mosquito
repellant you can use is
Avon Skin-So-Soft bath oil mixed about
half and half with alcohol.


One of the best natural insect repellants that I've discovered
is made from the clear real vanilla. This is the pure Vanilla that is sold in Mexico . It works great for mosquitoes and ticks,
don't know about other insects.

When all else fails--get a frog

Answer 3

The best mosquito repellent I ever found was Avon's Skin so Soft and that's not a home remedy, really. I hope with that many mosquitoes, you have your dog on Heartguard.

Answer 4

Most insects do not like tobacco juice. I think you could make a tea out of chewing tobacco, get the twists and not the bags which have too much sugar in them. Grind them up and put them in several layers of cheese cloth and place then into a bucket or tub filled with warm water. Strain it in other cheese cloth until there are no solid particles. Add a teaspoon of liquid detergent to it and then spray it on the grass, any plants, etc. That will stop aphids from your rose bush, any type of bug that eats leaves on plants like Rhododendren or Azeala or anything basically. To spray it, put it into a pump up sprayer. I know some people that will put urine intot he mix, it does not hurt anything.

redo after a rain.

Answer 5

You can buy some bags of what is called cedarside(I think that is how it's spelled) at a nursery or garden center. It is very fine cedar shavings, almost flakes, that come in about a 10 gallon bag. Spread it all over your yard and lightly sprinkle with water.

Answer 6

Pour bleach in everything that holds water, buy "citronella plants" and plant them in the back yard. If you have a pond there are these floaty things that kill them. Yard guard spray will kill them.

Answer 7

Remove any buckets, pails or anything else that might hold standing water, the suckers like to reproduce near standing water.

Answer 8

one cup lemon joy dish soap
one cup lemon ammonia
put in garden sprayer that hooks up to hose fill up to top with water then hook up hose and spray the yard

Answer 9

We always used Avons Skin-so-Soft--it reallt works!