 welcome back I have a very exciting DIY to share with you for you guys who are at home and maybe it's just overcome with all the bugs that are around the area especially if you're going into summer or if you've just come from summer and going into winter and you're just getting all the bugs coming over I know I am especially over where my compost and stuff is when I'm gardening I'm getting inundated by mosquitoes and I'm like I need something to stop this so I've come up with a little bug spray recipe that I've been looking online combining a few different recipes to make the ultimate bug spray recipe so a few recipes I borrowed them from were DIY natural and wellness mama so I will link them in the description below for you guys to check out if you like so it's a really simple and homemade recipe basically all you need to do is get grab your essential oils grab a bit of vodka and grab some water and you're good to go so what I really love about this recipe is that it's completely natural so you know how normal bug sprays, air-guard, insect repellents have a lot of chemicals in them while they may work they're not great for your body especially because your skin is an organ and it just absorbs anything that's on it so what you spray onto your skin is ultimately ending up in your body and that's just a big toxic load that you don't need it's very necessary especially when you can make your own one right at home with essential oils that are very beneficial for you have many beneficial properties and work just as well so without further ado let's get into it so what you're going to need is about a total of 100 drops of essential oils but I've combined a few different ones to make this recipe today so I think I'm going to use about 120 probably a bit more than usual but you don't have to use all the essential oils you can combine a few different ones and see what works for you so we're going to start off with so 20 drops of tea tree oil 20 drops of lavender essential oil it's gonna smell fabulous I love lavender it's probably my ultimate favorite herb I want to actually get to around to making my own essential oils in future so at the moment I'm in the beginning stages of just growing the herbs then I want to turn the herbs into essential oils which I will share in future videos once I've nailed it and that'd be so exciting so it's so much money and I have essential oil supply just right out my door it was so awesome getting back to the recipe you're also going to need 30 drops of citronella now this is a big bug killing hit this in itself I was talking to the lady at the health food store where I got from and she said it's well known for its bug repelling properties so this is a fantastic essential oil to use citronella geranium is another one we're going to need 30 drops of that as well you're going to need 20 drops of lemon essential oil and also 20 drops of eucalyptus essential oil eucalyptus essential oil is wonderful for repelling bugs I know it's very potent very strong I know eucalyptus if you keep it in your house it actually repels spiders so if you guys have spiders at home and natural way to keep them out of your house if you don't want them is to use eucalyptus oil so I've learned that as like one of the reasons why I know it's a great bug repellent because it repels spiders naturally so there you go fun fact and to finally kick off the essential oil hit we're using in this recipe just looking for it have all these essential oils you're going to need 10 drops of rosemary essential oil and then that's pretty basically it you're done with the essential oils you can also use clove essential oil lemongrass essential oil kajiput kajiput essential oil make sure to write that down because I'm sure I'm not pronouncing that right mint catnip or cedar essential oil as well so there are the ones you can use to repel bugs if you have those at home as well but moving on to the next step of the recipe you're also going to need one tablespoon of pure vodka or rubbing alcohol so it's up to you I'm using pure vodka today because there's no rubbing alcohol left to the store and I've run out of my supply I'm just waiting on my order to come through so either one will do well it's just to preserve the spray and helps keep the essential oils from distilling away it keeps them there for longer then you're also going to need half a cup of natural witch hazel it's great for people who want making like disinfecting things so witch hazel is great for that it's also wonderful for your skin so this is also great to use in many different other DIYs which I'll share in future and then finally you're going to need half a cup of water so I'm using filtered water today because it just filters out any chemicals and things that may be in our water supply that's just a little bit better and as an optional ingredient you can use one teaspoon of vegetable glycerin and that just helps keep the ingredients combined in the solution but it is optional and I don't have any with me I'm still waiting on the order to come through so I'm not going to use that today but if you guys will have that and you want to use it it's great to keep the ingredients together otherwise all you need to do every time you're going to use it it's just shake it so the ingredients combine and they're not separated so you shake it every time you're about to use it and just sprayed on it's good to go now basically to make it we're just going to pop everything into the bowl mix it through and then pop it into our little spray bottle right here so yeah let's get making that together so I'm just going to combine all my ingredients in the bowl but you can just combine them in the spray bottle if you want to I just find it's easier to mix and easier to get all the ingredients in the bowl first and then use a funnel to pour it in but it's up to you you can pour it right into the bottle or do what I'm doing and pour it into the bowl but first off we're just going to combine all the essential oils first in the bowl so first tea tree, then lemon, then eucalyptus, then geranium, next we have rosemary, then lavender, my favourite and then finally we have citronella that's nice now we're going to add in the vodka and just stir it well to combine and then we'll add the witch hazel, whoo, that will do, then now we're going to pour in the witch hazel of water you can also add in vinegar if you don't want to use water so it's up to you, you can use vinegar or water and we're going to stir this again to combine and I'm going to stir it really carefully because it won't spill I should have got a bigger bowl and now if you're using vegetable glycerin you'd add it in now and again stir it to combine but I'm not going to use that today so I'm just going to pour it straight into the bottle, shake it up and it's ready to go. I'm going to pour it into my little pourer and I think they'll wittle better rather than pouring it from the bowl so that's just going to end up everywhere so I have some left over so I'm going to pour that into another spray bottle and then once you're done, put the lid back on, smells so good, smells amazing and there you have it, your easy bug spray already to go so every time you want to use it just remember to shake it up, shake it up really well so that all the ingredients inside are combined and then all you need to do is spray it on as you would and rub that in and you're going to smell incredible as well, smells so good, rub that all on me, smells great and a great spot to put it is just outside near your back door or wherever you find that bugs are most prominent and you keep it there and all you do is as you go so I just spray it on and you're ready to go, face those bugs. Perfect DIY on natural bug spray already to go. 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