Maria Lukyanenko/ article author
Identification of pests, work with insect cultures, micrograph of insects, bibliographic studies.

DIY mosquito repellent shampoo + vinegar

With the advent of warm days, many people tend to go to the forest for a picnic, fishing, hunting or just go for a walk to the pond. Lovers of summer cottages enjoy working on a suburban area. However, very often such an idyll is violated mosquitoes. The bloodsuckers at this time of the year are a real disaster not only for vacationers, tourists or gardeners, but also for residents of high-rise buildings. Especially from mosquito bites people with sensitive skin suffer. Most often, these are women and children. Created a lot of chemical mosquito repellent. However, many people increasingly prefer safer folk recipes. This is a folk remedy for mosquitoes with vinegar and shampoo.

Cooking rules

One of the simple and effective methods of protection against annoying insects is presented to your attention below. The uniqueness of this recipe lies in the use of improvised ingredients that are usually available in the house of every hostess. That makes it possible to prepare effective protection against mosquitoes at home with your own hands. To prepare a miracle cure, you will need the following components: shampoo, vegetable oil and vinegar.

On a note!

Instead of shampoo for washing your hair, you can use shower gel or liquid soap. Of vegetable oils, it is better to give preference to olive. You can also use sunflower or corn oil. And vinegar is easy to replace with vinegar essence, which must first be diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 7.

Mosquito repellent at home with vinegar and shampoo
Mosquito repellent at home with vinegar and shampoo

All of the above ingredients (vinegar, shampoo and oil) are taken in equal quantities and placed in a glass or plastic container. Then they are thoroughly mixed until a mass having a uniform consistency is formed. The finished emulsion has the form of a viscous white liquid. Such a mosquito repellent mixture is used to apply to exposed parts of the body when going outside: vinegar aroma repels bloodsuckers, shampoo clogs the smell of human sweat, and vegetable oil acts as a base.

The vinegar mash in vegetable oil is stored for a long time, so it can be done for the future. The main thing is to put this homemade product in a hermetically sealed container and store in a cool place.

How to get rid of itching after mosquito bites

There are many folk remedies, thanks to which you can easily and quickly. relieve itching.

Soda

Reduce Painful Itching blisters those who did not apply the recipe with vinegar and shampoo on time and still were attacked by bloodsuckers will help soda solution. It is prepared based on 200 g of warm water 1 tbsp. l soda. A thoroughly mixed mixture is used for lotions, leaving a moistened cloth on the body for 10-15 minutes.

Vinegar and other ingredients

Itching from mosquito bites will help remove vinegar salt and soda
Itching from mosquito bites will help remove vinegar salt and soda

Such a remedy as vinegar is used not only against mosquitoes, it is also effective after mosquito bites, causing an intolerable itch. So that the affected area does not itch, you need to wipe it with vinegar, and then sprinkle with soda.This procedure will help to quickly get rid of discomfort.

For these purposes, you can also take corvalol or valocordin. Soak a cotton pad on any of these medications and wipe the itchy area. No less effective in this situation ammonia or freshly squeezed lemon juice.

Garlic also has similar healing properties. It is rubbed on a fine grater and used in a similar way.

Salt

It relieves itching that appears on the site of a bloodsucker bite, a very affordable remedy for everyone called table salt. It must be mixed with a small amount of water until a porridge mass forms. Such a kind mosquito bites used for application to the skin. The result of processing can be a slight tingling, which quickly passes, contributing to the removal of the inflammatory process.

On a note!

The use of all of the above means requires compliance with a single condition - to prevent combing of damaged areas. After all scratched bite place requires longer healing, moreover, it will be an extra opportunity to introduce an infection.

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