A guide on natural ways to ward off unfriendlies in the home.
I put all these dried ingredients in a little bowl in the home to hopefully deter them, i’m still experimenting.
You can also use scented candles with these oils, essential oil sprays, sachets for clothes with bicarbonate of soda to absorb odors with dried herbs or placing a few drops of essential oil on a cotton ball and putting it in a ting cotton bag, stick diffusers, electric essential oil and water diffusers {Check safe use of essential oils for pets in the home}, a door wreath with dried cuttings, dried cuttings in vases which could be sprayed with essential oils, or moisturisers for the body.
- Citronella – ward off fleas and mosquitoes, moths and cockroaches
- Cedar
- Conkers – ward off moths.
- Eucalyptus
- Lavender – ward off fleas, flies, mosquitoes, and ticks
- Lemon
- Lemongrass
- Peppermint & Spearmint – ward off ticks, spiders, roaches, moths, flies, fleas, beetles, woodlice and ants
- Rosemary – ward off mosquitoes and woodlice
- Sage – repel chiggers, flies, and ticks
- Tea tree
- Bay leaves in cupboards, for weevils and moths in flour and rice
- Basil – it’s smell can put off house flies and mosquitoes
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