Vinegar
If you have not yet been “lucky enough” to meet flying bloodsuckers, it’s time to take preventive measures. This is what, for example, American army soldiers do: three days before field exercises in especially swampy areas, they begin to drink apple cider vinegar. Three tablespoons a day - and you can safely rush into the midst of mosquitoes.
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Contraindications
Despite all the naturalness of plant-based mosquito and tick repellents, they also have a number of contraindications. First of all, this is an individual intolerance and allergy to the components of the composition: lemon, cloves, eucalyptus or other oils. Do not use protective creams and sprays:
- During pregnancy.
- Hypertensive patients.
- People with increased excitability of the nervous system.
In order to achieve a quick effect, you should not increase the dose of oils. Before use, you need to conduct a standard test for an allergic reaction by dropping a couple of drops of the product on the elbow.
Garlic
If a weak stomach does not allow you to get carried away with “vinegar” infusions, you will have to sacrifice the freshness of your breath. A few days before going to the taiga (or any other “mosquito dangerous” place), eat 2 cloves of garlic a day - and you don’t have to worry about insects. Oddly enough, they dislike the smell of garlic no less than humans, and since the components of garlic will literally come out of you along with your sweat, not a single midge will dare to approach you. The same applies, by the way, to ticks.
Recipes
Creating an anti-mosquito agent is quite simple. There are several recipes for making mosquito repellent based on cloves and lemon.
For this you will need:
- 2-3 lemons.
- 1-2 bags of whole clove buds.
The lemon is cut in half, and 7 to 10 clove buds are stuck into each half. To enhance the effect, you can drop a few drops of clove and lemon essential oils onto the cut – the aroma will be even stronger.
You need to place lemon halves closer to your sleeping areas at night. However, you should first make sure that there is no allergic reaction to odors.
When going to the country or to the forest, you can dilute 5-10 drops of clove oil in 50 ml of cologne. This composition can be used to treat exposed areas of the body and clothing.
In its pure form, cloves cannot be applied to the skin, but such “perfume” is suitable as protection against mosquitoes.
If you don’t have cologne on hand, you can take alcohol and water in a ratio of 1:10, mix them and add clove ether.
There are a lot of means available to combat annoying insects. But what to do if parasites appear in the body? Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem too. One of the traditional medicines is trichatka - a composition of tansy, wormwood and cloves against parasites. You can prepare it yourself or purchase it at a pharmacy.
Reviews
Most people who have used lemon and cloves to repel ticks and mosquitoes respond positively to this remedy. Some people use the composition as a replacement for chemicals when camping, on vacation in the forest, or when working in their summer cottage. There is a lasting effect and ease of use of the formulations against ticks and mosquitoes.
Although there are people for whom cloves and lemon did not help or who developed allergies. This is especially true for children. But this once again proves that in everything you need to observe moderation and strictly follow recipes for production and rules of use.
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Properties of cloves
The spicy fruits of the tropical tree have become popular due to their unique properties. This applies not only to dried seasoning, but also to the use of the product in folk medicine. The plant has a peculiar pungent odor. Cloves are mostly composed of eugenol and methyl salicylates. They give the fruits a unique aroma that repels insects. Terpenes and aldehydes contained in the spice affect the olfactory organs of bloodsuckers, forcing them to stay away from the pungent odor.
The beneficial properties of clove buds are not limited to repelling mosquitoes. The fruits cope well with the bites of bloodsuckers due to their disinfectant effect. After treatment with clove-based products, the itching will disappear, the wound will heal quickly, because... the plant has antihistamine and anti-inflammatory properties. In folk medicine, the spice is considered one of the safest, most effective remedies against mosquitoes, midges, and ticks.
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Insect control products
People have long noticed that certain odors can repel annoying insects, not only mosquitoes and flies, but also various kinds of parasites and pests. That is why representatives of the older generations placed sprigs of lavender among the things in the closets, and placed a pot of geraniums on each window: these plants reliably protected the house from moths with their aroma. Many have also heard that if you put a clove of garlic in each bag of cereal, this will protect the food from various bugs. But if moths and other insects harm unnoticed, then annoying mosquitoes can drive a person into rage.
In the summer, mosquitoes bother people everywhere, but those who relax or work outside the city especially suffer from them. Of course, there are many drugs to combat these insects. These can be either individual products that are applied directly to the skin, or those that protect the room as a whole.
Often there is no electricity in country houses - in this case you should rely only on folk remedies
The problem is that many people are allergic to the chemical components that make up repellents and insecticides. Such mosquito repellents are especially harmful for children. And even for adults, the product can be applied to the skin only a limited number of times, and its effectiveness decreases over time. Chemicals sprayed into the air have a negative impact on health, in particular, they are contraindicated for people suffering from respiratory diseases.
It is also important that there is sometimes no electricity in a tent or country house, which automatically excludes the possibility of using fumigators and ultrasonic devices. In such cases, the best solution may be to use natural remedies, among which cloves and lemon occupy a special place due to their effective results.
Cooking methods
With clove oil
If you want to get rid of mosquitoes indoors, you will need:
- 50 ml lemon juice;
- 50 ml alcohol;
- 25 drops (or 25 ml) of clove essential oil.
- Mix the juice and oil, add alcohol and shake well.
- The resulting mixture can be sprayed on the walls of the room, curtains on the windows, or soaked in cotton wool and placed in different places in the room, for example, before going to bed.
- If you are going to spend time outside, then this mixture should be applied to your clothes.
Clove oil can also be used in the following ways:
- Drop a few drops of essential oil onto your skin or clothing and skin, which will create a lasting repellent effect for mosquitoes within a radius of about a meter.
- Mix the oil with some cream, for example, regular baby cream, and rub the resulting ointment into the skin, which will also give a noticeable result.
With citrus oil
For the most effective results, diffuse lemon essential oil indoors. However, this method is fraught with the fact that the strong aroma of citrus fruits can cause an allergic reaction, so it is advisable to prepare a special tincture:
- Take 50 ml of alcohol (can be replaced with plain vodka), add 20 drops of lemon essential oil to it.
- Dilute the resulting mixture in 1 liter of water at room temperature.
- Spray the room with the prepared infusion using a spray bottle, especially treating the walls where mosquitoes like to land and then look for prey at night, and the curtains to immediately prevent insects flying from open windows.
Using seasoning
If you don’t have essential oils on hand, you can use a simpler, but no less effective recipe. You will need ripe lemon and cloves, namely dried buds, which are used as a spice.
- You need to cut the lemon in half and then stick about 15 cloves into the pulp.
- Place lemon halves stuffed with cloves where you want to repel mosquitoes.
What else can you add?
To enhance the effect, you can drop tea tree essential oil, vanilla extract, mint extract, pine extract onto a cut half of a lemon, and you can also add a pinch of ground cinnamon.
Reviews and recommendations
If you use only lemon with dry cloves, then, according to reviews, the product saves only in a closed room in close proximity to people. In addition, the more such repellents you prepare, the more noticeable the effect will be.
The children sleep in a room with screens on the windows. Rarely, very rarely, one will break through, but I don’t want to use chemistry. I tried lemon with cloves out of interest. The product is safe. While they were doing it, the children’s joy knew no bounds. I placed it next to the cribs. There were no bites. Enough for two to three days. Natalya, 25 years old
I tried using lemon with cloves for mosquitoes. To be honest, I didn’t like it: either you have to carry it with you, or do it at night so that you don’t get bitten in your sleep. Because where this miracle remedy is, there are no mosquitoes, and beyond that is their legal territory. Tatyana, 51 years old
A large group went to the river. Stocked up on everything. They also took lemons and cloves. The gazebo was elegant, but there was no strong effect, after all, there was a river nearby. But lemon oil with cloves helps. Just be sure to dilute it with vegetable oil or baby cream to avoid burns. I usually mix 1 part essential oil to 10 parts base. Victoria, 51 years old
Whether you try it or not is up to you. It is important to remember that lemon and cloves are an absolutely natural repellent. If the product does not seem effective enough for you, you can enhance it with essential oils.
How to fight mosquitoes with cloves
The market, shops, and the Internet are filled with products of technical and chemical progress. All kinds of repellents and fumigators are designed to save people from mosquitoes and other blood-sucking parasites. And everything would be fine, but again, there is a group of people for whom even an ordinary mosquito repellent cream or spray is more dangerous than the insects themselves. A remedy that is familiar and harmless to us can cause skin reactions or other allergy symptoms in young children and allergy sufferers themselves. In this case, look for a recipe for a folk remedy for mosquitoes and prepare it yourself.
Over hundreds of years, people have learned to identify herbs and oils that flying and jumping blood-sucking insects do not like. Among them are wormwood, juniper twigs, catnip, elderberry, and tomato leaves. Used:
- camphor;
- tobacco smoke;
- blooming bird cherry;
- basil;
- clove essential oil;
- anise;
- eucalyptus;
- tea tree and many others.
Now we will talk specifically about clove oil and dry cloves. This spice is famous for its rich set of vitamins, minerals and beneficial essential oils in its composition. It is used not only in cooking, but also to treat headaches and toothaches, problems with the digestive system, regulates acidity, and affects mental clarity. Clove oil has antiseptic and bactericidal, wound healing and tonic properties. It can be used for adults and children, and the spice itself should be regularly added to dishes.
Anise essential oil can also be used against mosquitoes
Clove oil as a mosquito repellent
To drive mosquitoes away from your body, it is not necessary to buy a ready-made chemical product. It is easy to prepare it yourself, with your own hands. There is more than one recipe and they are all banal simple.
Ten drops of oil are evenly applied to clothing. The fleur around you will not allow mosquitoes to fly close to your body.
Essential clove oil (20 drops) is added to 50 ml of ethyl or camphor alcohol. The finished repellent can be applied to open areas of the body, or a napkin can be soaked in it and left by the bedside table, on the windowsill, or near the workplace.
For children, expectant mothers and people with sensitive skin, a milder product is prepared. The recipe is simple: 30 drops of tea tree essential oil, 7 clove oil and 50 ml of regular olive or sunflower oil are mixed. Apply to the places where the vein beats.
You can also treat clothes or smear the skin with another oil product: two tablespoons of oil from the kitchen, 10 drops of clove, one spoon of aloe gel or pure juice of this plant. Citronella oil is often added to the recipe.
Clove essential oil against mosquitoes can be used to protect the entire room. To do this, it is added to the aroma lamp. If you drop oil into a fire, your outdoor recreation will take place without slapping your body or annoying squeaking in your ear.
Another remedy to protect your children's sleep is spice and lemon. Cut the citrus in half and stick two dozen cloves into the pulp. The recipe is effective and safe. If you don't have fresh lemon, you can use essential oils.
Rarely, clove oil can cause allergies, redness of the skin, dizziness, and nausea. To find out if this product is right for you, apply 2 drops to the inside of your wrist and wait 20 minutes. If there is no negative reaction, feel free to use the mosquito repellent recipe.
For long-lasting protection, carry ready-made repellent with you and lubricate your skin/clothing with oil every 5 hours.
If you know another effective recipe, please share with us.
Why does this combination work?
The best remedy for fighting mosquitoes is a mixture of lemon and cloves, because these components have highly active volatile substances.
Effect of lemon
The juice of the fruit and its zest contain a high concentration of citrine. The aromatic oils of the peel are easy to diffuse around the room or apply to the skin. The smell is persistent and will last for several hours.
Aromatic molecules are lighter than air and therefore do not sink down, but float in its currents. Mosquitoes perceive this aroma as a signal that the area is unsafe and do not fly close. Therefore, you can spread fruit peels around the room to saturate the air with fresh citrus smells. It is unlikely that even a single mosquito will fly into such a room.
Action of cloves
The aroma of this plant is very strong. Bloodsuckers categorically do not like him and scares them. A few drops of essential oil will protect a large house from mosquitoes.
For insects, this smell is very strong, concentrated and serves as a danger signal.
Combining cloves with lemon makes a good protective agent.
Get rid of mosquitoes without using chemicals
cloves to the rescue
Why expose the body to various chemicals, which often cause irritation of the epithelium and an allergic reaction of the respiratory tract, if folk methods of fighting bloodsuckers have long been known.
Just as lavender inflorescence helps to get rid of moths in cabinets and on shelves, and chopped garlic cloves help to exterminate bugs that eat cereals, ground cloves and basil leaves are used against mosquitoes.
It doesn’t matter if you are at home or outside the city, if you have a spice or essential oil from cloves near you, then you can safely unbutton a thick jacket, put on shorts and listen instead of the annoying squeak to the sound of leaves, the crackling of a fire and other pleasant sounds of nature
Useful properties of cloves
A spice like cloves is known for its pain-relieving properties. It has long been used in medicine as a disinfectant for wounds. Ground spice added to food improves digestion, treats respiratory diseases, helps with intestinal colic, hypotension, and lotions with added spice will relieve a person from otitis media.
A person is repelled by the smell of rot and rotten food, and the smell emanating from dried, ground cloves has a similar effect on blood-sucking insects.
How can ground cloves keep mosquitoes away?
Sprinkle cloves on the windowsill
A bag of ground cloves is useful for more than just cooking. What methods of protection against mosquitoes can be implemented with only spicy powder on hand?
- The mosquito's receptors are configured in such a way that it senses lactic acid coming from the human body several kilometers away. Of course, spices do not spread the aroma over such distances, but when approaching a warm-blooded creature a few meters, a flying bloodsucker will smell the smell and will not dare to fly closer.
- To protect the room, sprinkle a few pinches of spice powder evenly on the windowsill.
- From cloves you can make a mosquito-repellent decoction to apply to the skin, resulting in a liquid like eau de toilette or cologne.
If a mosquito has already bitten, and the area begins to swell and itch, then a lotion containing a diluted teaspoon of ground cloves in a glass of water will help relieve the discomfort.
Other spices and citrus fruits will help enhance the effect of a powdered mound of clove sprigs. Lemon and cloves for mosquitoes are perhaps the most famous recipe.
A fragrant combination of lemon and cloves
Lemon with cloves will perfectly protect against mosquitoes. You can find the necessary ingredients in any market. Lemon slices with dried or ground cloves at the head will ensure a restful sleep in the palette or a fun time by the fire.
Take care of your health in advance when going fishing, hunting or just going out for mushrooms; take a whole lemon along with a bag of cloves. In addition to the harmlessness of this method of protection, the natural ingredients exude an oriental aroma that is pleasant to the human nose.
Lemon and cloves against mosquitoes
Ease of manufacture
To create a pleasant-smelling “amulet” you will need a minimum of finances and effort. Detailed instructions will tell you how to ensure a relaxing rest and sound sleep.
- Visit your nearest store, buy a juicy lemon and a package of ground cloves.
- Cut the lemon into two equal halves, then sprinkle the core generously with spice. If you purchased twigs, it doesn’t matter. Some people prefer to poke holes in the peel with dried cloves. This way, the trap will emit less odor, but its operating time will be longer.
- Place a visually pleasing composition near you, at the head of the bed if you are relaxing, or carry it with you while moving around your home.
By adding all kinds of additional ingredients, such as: basil, mint, tea tree oil, pine extracts, the effect will be significantly enhanced.
Possible effects of natural repellent on humans
Natural products will only become hazardous to health if there is an individual intolerance to a particular odor.
If you are allergic to dried or ground cloves, using concentrated essential oils will only worsen your health and cause headaches.
An allergic reaction to ground dried spice is quite rare. If after several minutes of aromatic baths from ground cloves shortness of breath and headache do not appear, then you can safely use traditional methods.
How does the method work?
Due to their strong aroma and high content of active volatile substances, lemon and cloves are considered one of the most effective ways to combat mosquitoes.
It's worth looking at them in a little more detail:
- Lemon. Not only lemon, but also citrus fruits in general have shown high effectiveness in fighting mosquitoes. There are many options for using the beneficial properties of lemon, for example, diffusing the juice, using lemon-scented essential oils, etc. A good option would be to use skins, which also contain a large amount of essential oils and have a lasting aroma.
- Carnation and other strong-smelling flowers. The pungent odor of flowers such as carnation, geranium, lavender, and chrysanthemum is destructive to insects. It is noteworthy that flower scents can be used in any form, regardless of whether they are picked or not. In any case, the effect will be quite noticeable.
