Best NATURAL MOSQUITO REPELLANT I've Ever Used!

[valentinebaby]

I had hear the Skin So Soft by Avon worked - guess mosquitoes are different down here in Texas, because S-S-S didn't stop them one bit for me! I like the Thermacell idea, but it's more expensive and you have to move it with you and that just doesn't work for me when I'm moving around outside (such as mowing, etc.). Still swear by the vanilla lotion - even the old stuff still works!

 

[LA~Poulet]

Skin so soft didn't even slow them down for us.

 

[barnwife]

My family eats only my cooking, cuz we're cheap hillbillies who live too far from civilization to hit a mickye'd's more than once a month...

and I use about 8 lbs of onions and at least two bulbs (not cloves, bulbs) of garlic while cooking...the results...near to zero mosquito bites!!

When I get the grill going to cook evening dinner (no sense heating up the house) I throw the bits n pieces of garlic that COULD be composted (the ends and papery stuff) onto the fire or directly onto the grill surface...and no mosquitoes.

Fewer flies. Doesn't do a thing for no-see-ums, though.

Beats the pants off of skintastic, shin-so-soft, vanilla, and citronella (in any of its sundry forms)

I hope this country bumpkin secret helps ya'll!

 

[valentinebaby]

barnwife - do you eat that many onions and garlic EVERY day? That would be pretty hard for me to consume! Love them both, but 8 onions and 2 bulbs every day seems hard to do!

 

[barnwife]

lol..not every DAY

Every week ...@ 8 lbs of onions and two bulbs of garlic. Everything is cooked.. family of one kid, hubby and I.

When you break it down, its actually 2-3 cloves of garlic per day, and one or two onions each day, for an entire family, three meals and a couple snacks daily.

When you think about it...a pot of chili uses three or four onions and five-6 cloves of garlic...for four people-sized batch.

I am addicted to anyuthing that can be cooked outdoors, so the crockpot (placed on an outdoor table), toaster oven, and grill are my best friends for 8 months out of the year. LOADS of onions and garlic in those recipes!!

For mosquitoes, replace any onion powder from your recipes with the minced wet jar garlic or fresh, teaspoon for teaspoon. A teaspoon is about equal to 1 medim/large clove.

Or just throw a couple cloves on your citronella oil burner or candles or grill/hot coals.

For the superstitious, hang a ring of braided garlic above your doorway and string it around your neck.


Either way, it keeps bloodsuckers away!

 

[nhnanna]

Quote:
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[LA~Poulet]

I just wanted to come back to this and say that I'm still looking for Watkins, but in its absence, I tried Bath & Body Works Vanilla lotion that I had on hand. We slathered it on to go blueberry picking on a muggy, hot, mosquito filled Louisiana afternoon. Everyone around us was slapping bugs off like crazy, while we got maybe 1 or 2 bites over the course of a couple hours. Vanilla must really be a repellent!

I mentioned it to the people we were picking with, who were miserably covering themselves in some DEET filled spray, and they said-'wow! I noticed they weren't biting you, and that you smelled like something baking in the oven' LOL!