Overview of folk remedies for mosquitoes and midges in nature

Leaving for a few days in nature, you need to take care of funds that repel blood-sucking insects. ABOUT mosquitoes everyone remembers, but it’s much more dangerous than mosquitoes that are small insects called “midges”. It has a very small size, is able to clog under clothes and is active during the day. A large number of midges can literally eat skin and get to live meat. Therefore, visiting beautiful untouched places in nature, you will have to take care of means that repel not only mosquitoes, but also midges.

No one has yet succeeded in making poison for mosquitoes with mosquitoes. Insects prefer fresh blood. To poison bloodsuckers, you need to poison yourself, therefore, by far the most effective method of pest control remains repellents.

On a note!

Repellents can be bought at the store, but chemicals are often contraindicated in young children. Adults with allergies sometimes also cannot use comfortable mosquito spray. But mosquitoes and midges can be scared away by folk remedies.

Folk recipes

Not quite a folk remedy for mosquitoes and midges in nature - Vietnamese balm asterisk. Not quite folk, because the ointment is made in an industrial way. It is intended for the treatment of colds, but a large number of essential oils in the composition of the ointment allows it to be used against insects.

Important!

it mosquito repellent for children up to a year contraindicated. The composition of the balm is too strong for delicate skin and the child may get burns. Adults are also better off using the product in its pure form, only if everyone around agrees.

But for children with an Asterisk, you can prepare a weakened ointment at home: the baby cream is squeezed into a clean container and a little balm warmed up in a water bath is added there, everything is thoroughly mixed. Such an ointment will scare away mosquitoes, but will not harm the skin of the child.

Essential oils very popular as folk remedies for mosquitoes and midges. Almost all aromatic oils that are on sale are used to repel insects. In nature, in a close and non-protesting company, they use strongly smelling substances: clove oilAn asterisk or mint, citronella oil. You can even surprise people and rub with garlic or vinegar and shampoo.

On the street or in a large company, it is better to use softer oils that resemble the smell of perfume:

• pink;
• tea tree oil;
• vanilla
• eucalyptus;
• aniseed;
• wormwood.

In some people, strong odors can trigger an asthma attack, so you need to use essential oils carefully.

On a note!

Vanilla oil helps to drive off only midges, mosquitoes do not respond to it.

How to cook

Folk remedies are not difficult to prepare. Sometimes you don’t even have to cook anything. Tea rose oil and tea tree oil can be applied to the skin in the same way as perfumes: the inside of the wrist, neck, behind the ears. These aromatic oils do not harm the skin and few people cause allergies.

On the basis of essential oil, it is not difficult to make a tool at home.More concentrated aromatic oils are “diluted” with cream or water. A few drops of oil are added to a neutral cream / 100 ml of water, mixed thoroughly and used to protect the exposed parts of the body. A water suspension is applied from a spray to clothing. Cats and mosquitoes do not like such smells fly around the “tasteless” smelling person until the essential substances evaporate. Usually within 2 hours.

Other folk remedies

In the absence of aromatic oils in the house, you can prepare a decoction or baby cream from the existing spices. As a home remedy for mosquitoes and midges, a decoction of vanilla pods or clove buds showed themselves well. The disadvantage of folk methods of combating mosquitoes and midges is that you can only use fresh formulations.

Clove decoction

5 buds per glass of hot water. Boil a quarter of an hour. Cool. It is advisable to dilute the infusion with water and spray clothes. A decoction of cloves drives away midges with mosquitoes for several hours. You can also make a repeller from lemon and cloves.

Vanilla

Cook vanilla insect repellent There are several ways. Depends on the form in which the spice is in the house:

• Boil the vanilla bean in a glass of water and insist. Use in the same way as clove infusion.
• Pour 2-3 bags of vanillin powder in 0.5 l of water, stir, pour into a spray bottle and spray clothes. Throw out the clogged spray gun.
• Mix the same 2-3 sachets with vegetable oil (150 ml). Apply the mixture to exposed parts of the body.

If you do not use a spray bottle, but simply wipe the skin with a solution and put a suspension on clothes, this popular homemade product will allow you to get rid of annoying insects for several hours. A slight smell of vanillin will not annoy others.

There are two unpleasant moments;

• use vanillin after sunset, as it attracts bees and wasps;
• vanilla powder does not dissolve in water, and soluble vanilla sugar is not effective, you can not confuse them.

Invented based on vanillin folk mosquito repellent for children from a year. A tube of baby cream is mixed in 20-30 g of vanillin and mixed thoroughly. You will have to store in a jar in the refrigerator and use after dark. You can take a jar of cream with you to nature. When applying this ointment to children, the cream can not be rubbed into the skin. It is carefully applied to the skin of the child.

Russian folk remedies

Vanillin is a southern spice, and mosquitoes have been living on the Eurasian continent since the time of glaciation. Our ancestors also suffered from mosquitoes and midges. To protect themselves from bloodsuckers, they used their own home remedies:

• tansy;
• sagebrush;
• Birch tar;
• wheat grass.

Wormwood is a southern grass and is not available in every region. The bitter decoction of wormwood allows you to effectively get rid of the midge, which nibbles the skin. Mosquitoes are more difficult, as they pierce the skin and only the smell can scare them away. The aroma disappears in a couple of hours.

Very interesting is a traditional folk remedy with wheatgrass. Wheat grass is a malicious weed that can grow in any climatic conditions. Gardeners really do not like this grass. The more unexpected is the fact that with its help you can protect yourself from bloodsuckers.

This folk remedy is ideal for children of any age, without causing an allergic reaction.

On a note!

When weeding it is not necessary to throw out the roots of wheatgrass, they are useful for preparing a decoction.

The recipe for a wheatgrass decoction is also simple:

• 100 g of washed wheatgrass roots (according to other sources, grass or the whole plant) are finely cut and filled with 1.5 l of water;
• the broth is boiled 3 times until the liquid acquires a light yellow color;
• cool and wipe the hands and body with a decoction.

The more saturated the wheatgrass broth will be, the better. Mosquitoes with midges avoid this folk remedy for several hours.The advantage of the wheatgrass broth is also that it has almost no smell and will not irritate others.

What is not suitable as a repellent

It may seem that any strongly smelling remedy is suitable for scaring away mosquitoes and midges. Therefore, among popular recipes, there are often recommendations to use ammonia. In fact, this substance evaporates quickly and does not protect against attacks by bloodsuckers. But it is necessary to have it in the medicine cabinet when leaving for nature. Ammonia is the main component in the composition ointments for insect bites. You can apply it in its pure form.