Folk remedies for mosquitoes

A decades-long struggle against mosquitoes still in a positional war. Ecologists are against the complete destruction of mosquitoes, since these insects - base of the food pyramid. For total extermination vote those whom mosquitoes bit to a state of severe allergic reaction. Industrial insecticides quickly lose their effectiveness, as they are aimed at killing insects. Surviving individuals have increased resistance to poison and transmit this resistance to offspring. Folk remedies help get rid of mosquitoes according to another principle: scaring away. Mosquitoes flying away from any smell remain alive, and the offspring does not form resistance to unpleasant odors.

The difference between folk remedies for indoor and outdoor

Among the folk remedies used, the substances themselves are "universal." The difference between open air and the room is the method of application of a substance. To drive away mosquitoes use:

• herbs;
• aromatic oils;
• decoctions;
• fish fat;
• fumigation.

On a note!

In fairness, fumigation in the apartment can not be used. Using fish oil in the house is also a dubious method. get rid of mosquitoes indoors. Both of these methods will effectively drive away not only mosquitoes, midges, flies and other flying insects, but also people.

Aromatic oils and their use

A very popular folk home remedy for mosquitoes. The popularity is due to the fact that essential oils are also used to adjust the state of the body. Some soothe and help to sleep, others invigorate, while others relieve headaches. Another plus of essential oils is that it is easy to make a mosquito repellent from them at home.

In the apartment

To protect yourself from annoying insects in the room, just drip essential oil on a cotton swab. Several of these tampons, spread out indoors, will drive bloodsuckers away.

The second way is the aroma lamp. A few drops of oil added to warm water will evaporate all night.

Important!

Aromatic means must be selected so that it does not interfere with sleep. For a better sleep, they take lavender, eucalyptus, rosemary, pink and other similar substances. If you need to sit all night, it is better to apply an invigorating composition containing peppermint oil, citronella, lemon or orange.

If the room has low humidity and an electronic humidifier works, this device can replace the aroma lamp. Efficiency will be similar.

When using a home-made product from essential oils, a mixture of several types is often made. A complex composition of several volatile substances is much more effective than mono-oil. Preparing the product in the presence of several bubbles is no more difficult than using one type of oil: mix a few drops of eucalyptus, camphor and lavender.Views can be changed, choosing the most suitable composition.

In the presence of fumigator and an empty insecticide bottle is easy to repel yourself: fill the bottle with eucalyptus extract.

Another option: do mosquito spray. It is allowed to use it in nature, but it is better only at home, since when spraying you will have to use a spray bottle for watering the flowers. The composition of the solution from mosquitoes:

• 0.5 tsp soda or salt;
• 10 tbsp. l water;
• 1 tbsp. l alcohol;
• a few drops of aromatic oil.

Mix everything and pour into a spray bottle. Spray the surface of curtains, furniture, clothes.

Important!

The essential oil must be original. A vegetable based fake will leave marks on clothing.

Outside

For protect mosquitoes outdoors a creamy substance with the addition of any of the essential oils is well suited. You can make a cream with a few drops of aromatic oil. The neutral cream is squeezed into a clean jar, a few drops of oil are dripped and mixed thoroughly. It helps to save from mosquitoes in the forest. clove oil.

You can also make mosquito ointment from petroleum jelly. But this is too heavy a fraction that does not mix with light essential oil. The main disadvantage of Vaseline is that it is very oily and does not absorb into the skin. This means stains on clothing.

On a note!

As a natural remedy, a mixture of refined olive oil with aromatic is used. One of the least allergenic folk ways to scare away mosquitoes. The oil is well absorbed into the skin, but may leave marks on clothing.

Aromatherapy oils work against mosquitoes:

• eucalyptus;
• camphor;
• wormwood;
• cedar;
• pink;
• clove;
• lemon;
• orange
• citronella;
• tea tree;
• lavender;
• mint.

Important!

Clove oil is used very carefully. High concentration burns the skin.

Other aromatic products

In the absence of aromatic oils, you can do with improvised means from the kitchen cabinet:

• cloves;
• vanillin;
• vinegar;
• fresh lemon;
• soy sauce.

Sauce as a folk remedy for mosquitoes is a very original solution and is suitable only for home. But they say that it is enough to put a bowl with sauce near the bed to protect yourself from mosquito bites.

The remaining products must be prepared in advance. There are several folk recipes for mosquitoes based on vanillin and cloves.

Clove

Clove buds are used to prepare a decoction and homemade fumigator:

• The folk method of preparing the decoction is simple and allows you to use the product when you go out into the countryside and go outside: for one and a half glasses of hot water, take 5-6 buds of cloves and boil for 15 minutes. After cooling, the broth is used as a spray by spraying clothing with it, or as a liquid that can be applied to exposed areas of the body.
• How to make a homemade fumigator with cloves and lemon: Citrus is cut in half and inserted into one of the halves of 10-12 buds of cloves. The fumigator is ready. Evaporating substances can drive bloodsuckers out of the room. But change this homemade repeller will have daily.

Vanillin

Vanilla pods are able to drive away mosquitoes. If there are whole pods, prepare a decoction: 1 pod per 0.5 liter of water, boil and leave for a couple of hours. The resulting infusion can be sprayed on clothes or anointed exposed skin. Keep in mind that vanillin will last no more than 2 hours. After which the procedure must be repeated.

Important!

You can use only natural vanilla. Vanilla sugar has a very low vanillin content.

Since there are usually no pods on sale, and only seeds are used in cooking, folk recipes provide use of vanilla powder instead of pods: 20-30 g of powder per 0.5 l of hot water or 100 ml of vegetable oil. Mix everything thoroughly.The aqueous composition is used to spray clothes, oil smear exposed areas of the skin.

On a note!

Based on vanilla powder, you can make a cream for children from one year old.

Vinegar

Using mosquito vinegar would be effective since bloodsuckers don't like sour aromas and vinegar odor repels these insects. But any folk remedy with vinegar acts for a very short time, since the substance disappears very quickly.

On a note!

Trying to make an ointment with vinegar is doomed to failure.

All creams and ointments are made on the basis of fatty fractions of oil, which cannot be mixed with an aqueous solution of vinegar essence. The vinegar added to the ointment during rubbing will be squeezed up and evaporate.

The only option for continued use of this table condiment is to pour vinegar into the fumigator bottle or use a combination of vinegar and shampoo.

Very exotic folk remedies

These include Vietnamese balm asterisk, ammonia, fish fat. The former is due to the high concentration and amount of essential oils, the latter due to the smell.

Zvezdochka has a pleasant and strong smell, so it is better to smear it before going to nature. For children, balm is not recommended. Ointment strongly burns thin skin.

Fish oil is one of those folk remedies that scares away all flying insects. And with them the people nearby. But if you need to protect the child, and there is nothing else at hand, then fish oil is also suitable.

Plants

All of the above folk remedies are relatively new and in use recently. 40 years ago, only lavender and pink were on sale from essential oils. Yes, and those are rare. Exotic were completely absent. And there were mosquitoes. And they fought with them. To bring mosquitoes, used plants Central Russia:

• tansy;
• elderberry;
• bird cherry;
• medium sprocket;
• wheat grass;
• dalmatian daisy;
• juniper.

In the southern regions, wormwood is added to the list. Indoor use fresh and dry plants, laying them out in different places. When traveling to nature, it is better to use decoctions and infusions. Traditional natural remedies are less allergic than exotic aromatic oils.

Juniper is usually used in the form of fresh branches. Wheat grass - in the form of a decoction. The remaining herbs can be applied in fresh and dry forms, as well as decoctions.

Asterisk

This grass needs special mention, since few people know about it. Other names for this malicious weed are: wood lice, canary grass, heart grass, wood lice. Very heavily clogs the gardens. But get mad at this plant is not worth it. It can be used not only from mosquitoes, but also in salads, in livestock feed, in the first and second courses.

The use of this herb is very simple: a fresh plant is ground in the hands and the gruel is spread over open areas of the body. Gardeners argue that after this mosquitoes will not bite for a long time.

What is suitable for children

For babies under one year old better to use folk remedies "at a distance." You can put a cotton swab dipped in some type of repellent into the stroller.

After a year, children begin to walk and they need drugs that protect them while they walk. From the folk mosquito repellent for children over one year old A cream with vanilla is especially popular, due to the ease of preparation and the availability of ingredients: per 100 g of baby cream 10 g of vanilla powder. When applied to a child, the cream is not rubbed into the skin, but gently smeared over the body.

A decoction of the wheatgrass roots brings rid of insects for several hours. This natural repellent grows in almost every country house and causes tears in gardeners. Unlike starfish, wheat grass cannot even be put in a salad. Therefore, 100 g of wheatgrass roots is poured into one and a half liters of water and boiled until a broth of yellowish color is obtained. After cooling, wipe the body.

Dalmatian chamomile, which bears the second name “feverfew”, is very effective against mosquitoes. The broth is harmless to children, but it repels insects well due to the pyrethrins contained in the plant.

Folk remedies for adults

These folk methods are not suitable for indoor use and are used only in nature. When choosing what to spread in places with a very large amount of vile, you will have to stop at a spray of birch tar. Tar necessarily "complemented" with dense cotton clothing with Velcro on cuffs and trousers.

You can drive mosquitoes out of the tent if you set fire to pine needles in a tin can. There is no draft in the bank, and the needles will go out quickly. Smoke from smoldering needles will drive bloodsuckers out of the camping tent.

Pine or spruce cones can be thrown into the bonfire, the smoke from which also repels the vile well.

On a note!

In the room it is allowed to set fire only incense sticks. Since they aromatize the air all at the expense of the same essential oils, they will help get rid of mosquitoes. But finding children in a smoldering stick room is undesirable.

Folk remedies for animals

Shorthair animals also suffer from mosquitoes. The best folk remedy for animals is ASD of the third fraction. Plus ASD: guaranteed mosquito recovery and long life. Minus: next to the animal will be impossible.

Softer remedies: tar, creolin and the same compounds that are used for people. But these drugs do not last long.

If bitten

There's a lot after mosquito bites. The asterisk balm not only repels bloodsuckers, but also helps fight mosquito bites. This is one of its official uses.

The second drug that helps with bites is ammonia. Like vinegar, it quickly evaporates in the air and it makes no sense to use it to repel insects. But the effects of the attack ammonia eliminates well.

It is believed that the child can be anointed with bites potassium permanganate solution. But this is a disinfectant that does not affect the itching and irritation of the skin.