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Natural insect repellent

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Any recommendations on safe, natural insect and bug repellents?
 
Vitamin B1 daily 100mgs.
 
if you are talking about repelling insects from your yard, try killing them off with chemicals then use sulphur around the perimeter. The crawly ones won't come around.
 
what are you trying to repel from where?

Depending on what you mean by 'safe', you can use a perimeter of borax around your home, but not so good for pets and kids.
 
Brewers Yeast- 2 tabs a day. Contains lots of B vitamins & some say makes you the insect repellant (skin smells bad?- I don't really know).
 
Some natives cover themselves with a thin layer of mud ~ Ron :D :eek:
 
Specifically, when we go to Massanutten in the Virginia Mountains in the summer, I believe it is the gnats that are most bothersome. They fly in your face, mouth, etc.
 
Also not knowing of your incests, mint and its family are suppose to keep I think ants I bay

Hope someone will chime in to give experience.
 
I haven't a clue about gnats and I wish I could find something for those itty-bitty biting noseums, but my mom swears by Avon's SSS (Skin So Soft)bath oil in the green bottle for mosquitoes.

I asked a representative for Avon who said so many people swear by it that they now sell a product that has that nasty bug repellent in it. And they can't market the bath oil as a bug repellent without going through FDA or something.

Maybe gnats won't like it either, at least you will smell good and your skin will be soft.
 
i recall from boyscouts that we used to put sulfur powder in a rolled up pantyhose end and use it to "powder" around your ankles to keep bugs from crawling up past your shoes.

that and skinsosoft...although im not sure thats natural..but it sure smelled better than not showering for 3 days in the woods!
 
Consumer Reports tested Skin So Soft and found it has no effect what so ever on repelling bugs...

Snopes.com refutes most of the other odd-ball remedies as well...
 
while im not disputing the snopes claims...

if I can stick my arm in a closed box full of mosquitoes for 9.6 minutes and not get bit....id consider that a pretty good repellent!

not that its even close to the 300minutes for deep woods off..but still.

id think sticking my arm in there with nothing on would result in a bite within seconds.
 
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