Naturally Bug-Free: 75 Nontoxic Recipes for Repelling Mosquitoes, Ticks, Fleas, Ants, Moths & Other Pesky Insects

Lots of recipes/formulas to use easily obtained products to keep the bugs away. The recipes cover you, your pets and even around your dwelling. This is a great book to have.

What an incredible book to continue to make my home nontoxic ... used ground Sage to keep fleas off my Cat Woman, and we both are relieved with simple, old fashioned herbal wisdom! Keep finding new ways to use herbs and am so grateful to Stephanie for the easy and straight forward recipes.

This book was very clear and concise, and the recipes I have used, have worked very well. I am an avid essential oil user, so I already had most of the oils I needed for these recipes at home (there were a few odd ones that I bought just for this {like catnip} but it still ends up cheaper than buying a finished product retail). There are a few additional items required that the average person may or may not have laying around ( ie castle soap, I use Dr Bronners so I already had some. Amazon has lots of Dr Bronners soaps, this is the kind I used :https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bronners-Organic-Castile-Liquid/dp/B00014G4H8/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1466622042&sr=8-3&keywords=dr+bronners+eucalyptusNon scented high proof alcohol like vodka, I ended up using everclear. And vegetable glycerin.This one I did not have,since there is nothing else I would use it for, but picked up a bottle at Wal-Mart pretty cheap).Since I am already very familiar with a vast quantity of essential oils, when it came to the specific oil amounts and type, I just used her recipes as a guideline (there are some of the oils she uses that I HATE the scent of {geranium} ) and I would add or omit the oils till I achieved a scent I found pleasant. One oil that I don't think the author addressed enough was Lemon Eucalyptus. And I don't mean lemon oil mixed with eucalyptus oil. I mean oil from a type of eucalyptus plant that is called a Lemon Eucalyptus. This is one of only a few essential oils that has been recognized and proven by the C.D.C. to be effective as an insect repellent. Thus I think it should be used in ALL homemade bug repellents; spray, lotion, salve or otherwise (the only exceptions of when this oil should not be used is in the case of an allergy to the lemon eucalyptus, or on children under the age of three). You can buy the lemon eucalyptus here on Amazon, I did. I personally tried these brands and found them a good quality and reasonably priced:https://www.amazon.com/Lemon-Eucalyptus-Therapeutic-Grade-Essential/dp/B00PHQB8EE/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1466621477&sr=8-3&keywords=Lemon+eucalyptus+oilAndhttps://www.amazon.com/Eucalyptus-Therapeutic-Essential-Edens-Garden-/dp/B002RTVKOC/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1466621838&sr=8-1&keywords=Lemon+eucalyptus+edens+gardenBut for the rest of the recipe, I followed the books recommendation to a T, and the end result was amazing! I ended up with a light weight spray that smelled pleasant, had a nice staying power (I'd recommend reapplying the spray every couple of hours for maxium coverage. Although I could still smell hints of the spray even the next day, so covearge might last as long as 24 hours) and was very effective at keeping all the little annoying cridders at bay. I even spray down myself with this stuff before taking the dogs out and even at dusk, not a single bite!I really loved the fact that the author would take the same recipe (as in oils and intended purpose) and show you several different ways to make the repellent. An example would be formula #1 is oil based, formula #2 is alcohol and water based. This gives great flexibility to the reader in the type of end product they would want, and also to help accommodate what they already have at home, which again, can help save some money.The only thing I didn't really like about this book was the recipes seemed very redundant when it came to the oils recommend in the recipes. But this wasn't much of an issue for me, since I was already tweaking the oils to my liking anyways.I would recommend this book to anyone that is looking for a "how to" in homemade insect repellent, be it for themselves, children, or pets

Normally I avoid the outdoors because I’ve always been a mosquito magnet, and I was tired of poisoning myself and the environment with stinky toxic harsh chemicals just to avoid itchy aggravating bites.But Bug Free - What a game changer! The mosquito recipe worked like a charm! It smells so good, and helps me feel good because I’m using something that’s harmless to me, the planet (and even those pesky biters). I had no idea essential oils I enjoy & love already would empower me to feel at ease being outside again!If you’ve been struggling with bug bites and unable to enjoy nature, This is THE book you’ve been waiting for! 11/10

There is a lot of information here. If one of the recipes gives you an allergic reaction, there will be others with different ingredients. I think this is a very valuable resource with many ideas that should work, though some may be considerably more effective than others. Always be careful about using these around pets, especially around cats. Cats can be especially sensitive to things, even to natural plants.

Excellent, book for anyone that wants to be bug free. Without all those chemicals, that's bad for anything that breaths. Simple ingredients and easy recipes to follow & do.

Love this book and it's author. Got more of her books after reading this one. My sister was having problems with finding ticks on her, so I got her some geranium oil as the book recommended and she no longer found any ticks on her. I have started making herbal recipes for cleaning and bugs from this book and am quite happy with the results. I am making tinctures as described from her other books and find them to work great. There are no bad side effects with herbs. Oils are a healthy alternative to toxic chemicals.

This book is nice and has lots of recipes. Unfortunately, the very first bug spray I made did not kill bugs. I had better results using my organic cinnamon essential oil cleaning spray. 😔

Gives you all kinds of options to get bug free.

This little book is an absolute gem. Great recipes to keep the pesky bugs away. I can't wait to try them out. Recommended.

The book is small but jam-packed with recipes and ideas for using essential oils!

J'adore cette façon de banir les produits chimiques

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