How to Make Organic Insect Repellant
Dealing with mosquitoes and other insects can be quite annoying when trying to enjoy outside activities. If you are concerned about using commercial insect repellants, you might like to try this organic recipe for garlic-pepper tea insect repellant.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- One gallon container with loose fitting lid
- One tbsp. seaweed
- Two to three garlic bulbs
- Blender
- Water
- One tbsp. molasses
- Two habanera or cayenne peppers
- One gallon spray bottle
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1
Combine two bulbs of garlic and two cayenne or habanera peppers with 1 cup of water in a blender. Blend into a liquid consistency.
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2
Strain the mixture to remove any solid particles.
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3
Pour the strained garlic-pepper juice into a one gallon container. A rinsed out gallon milk jug makes a good container.
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4
Fill the remaining volume of the container with water to make the concentrated solution.
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5
Put the lid on the container and shake well.
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6
Pour 1/4 cup of the garlic-pepper concentrate in a 1 gallon spray bottle.
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Fill the remaining volume of the spray bottle with water and screw on the spray nozzle. You can use this mixture as an organic insect repellant.
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8
Spray the organic insect repellant on outdoor areas and plants.
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Tips & Warnings
Save the remaining garlic-pepper concentrate to make more organic insect repellant as needed.
You can substitute an additional garlic bulb for the peppers if you want to make garlic tea.
You can add 1 tbsp. seaweed and 1 tbsp. molasses to step 1 to make a stronger organic insect repellant.
Use a plastic container with a loose fitting lid for storing the garlic-pepper concentrate.
Use a plastic container with a loose fitting lid for storing the garlic-pepper concentrate.
