How to Make a Homemade Bug Spray

Bugs, insects and mosquitoes that are present in the garden can make your life pretty miserable, especially in the rainy days. They can also cause a lot nuisance when you go hiking, trekking or mountain camping. The readymade bug sprays are very harmful for human health as well as the environment as it contains many harmful chemicals including the N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET). There are many herbal remedies that can protect us from the nuisance of bugs. Combining those herbs with a little bit of technology is a good way to make the spray.

Homemade Bug Sprays and Repellants

Mint Soap Spray
Take two tablespoons full of any strong mint soap that is available to you and mix it up with a gallon of clean water. It is a very effective bug spray when sprayed directly on the carpenter ants. You can also spray a little bit of this mint spray on the foliage of your plantation, it can be pretty useful to evade several other insects too. Do not spray too much of bug spray on the foliage as the soapy water may burn several plantations. This is an excellent bug spray for plants.

Pepper Spray
Add 2/3 cup of hot pepper (chopped) into 3 cups of boiling water and boil the mixture for some time. Strain the mixture to remove the pepper particles. This is a really effective homemade pepper spray useful to evade ants and some small insects. But do not spray it directly on the foliage as well as avoid its contact with the eyes.

Mosquito Miracle
This is not actually a spray but these are the lavenders, the flowers. Rub the flower of lavender onto the body, especially behind the ears, neck and the wrists. Lavenders smell great and they also keep away mosquitoes that must be bugging you! Make sure you live in the lavender producing regions to apply this repellent, otherwise it will be a costly affair than the mosquito bite itself.

Spritzer Spray
Make strong tea and add lemon or orange peels to it along with a few mint leaves. Soak all the things together for 24 hours and then strain. Add some rubbing alcohol to this mixture and put it into a squirt bottle. Spray this solution over your body when you go to work in the garden, especially during evening.

Herbal Spray
Mix essential oils like eucalyptus oil (20 drops), cedar wood oil (20 drops), geranium oil (20 drops) and some drops of tea tree oil (20 drops) together. Add all these oils to a base oil like jojoba oil and use it as a bug repellent oil.

Vodka Mist
Mix jojoba oil (50 drops), lavender oil (50 drops), eucalyptus lemon (25 drops), lemongrass (25 drops), Cajeput (25 drops) and Patchouli (25 drops). Add this mixture into the vodka and mix it well. Before applying this mixture on your skin, make sure you have covered the skin with a layer of jojoba oil.

Insect Lotion
Take some clean water (2 oz) in a mixing bowl. Slowly add olive oil (2 oz) into the water, constantly beating it with the metal whisk. After mixing the water and olive oil well, add citronella essential oil (120 drops) to it.

Try making these bug sprays at home, they are really easy to make. Moreover, they are effective insect repellents. Learning how to make a homemade bug spray is the easiest way to get rid of all the bugging insects that cause trouble in your daily life.