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summertime means more time spent
outdoors but unfortunately that means
dealing with pesky mosquitoes yeah and
joining us now is Jennifer Prince from
the hill city bride wedding blog with a
homemade bug spray yes I love that I do
too I really AM into using natural
products and like we were kind of
discussing a little bit I mean just like
other brands like the chemicals and all
of that kind of stuff just really like
smell and you spray them and you just
feel like you're I don't know yes I'm
really oh yeah exactly
yeah do not like that so what goes in
this one okay this is super simple it's
almost unbelievably simple with the
ingredients that you need so you need
water everybody has that witch hazel
this I have to admit is the very first
time in my entire life I've ever bought
witch hazel so really yeah
congratulations to me you also need some
just some rubbing alcohol and then what
it comes down to with oils it's personal
preference so I have three different
oils here that will work for mosquitoes
one is tea tree oil also known as
Melaleuca oil lavender oil works really
well although it may put you to sleep
it's very relaxing and then also
lemongrass is a great one and you can
just pick these up at the health food
store I know that there's like some
direct sales companies that will sell
them too so just however you would get
an oil but they are really readily
available I got this one at the health
food store and then they actually sell
citronella oil so that's like what we is
you know we know as like in a candle
like that will actually get bugs away so
there is a variety of different things
that you can utilize so um and it's kind
of a ratio more so than an exact recipe
so it depends on the size a bottle that
you have and I think this is great if
your this one yes we're gonna use that
one just so that people can see see what
what I'm doing in there so the first
thing you're going to going to want to
do is if you have four ounces I'm gonna
give you a recipe kind of for a four
ounce bottle so this is actually just a
one ounce bottle so I'm gonna be using a
little bit smaller but you just kind of
want to put about a teaspoon maybe just
a little splash for this one right here
of the rubbing alcohol in there okay so
you just want to put like a teeny little
bit in there
oh I having fun I did bring a puddle
okay then you're going to want to add in
this again is also personal preference I
mean I read some recipes that say you
need 40 drops of oil and some say you
need 5 drops of oil so okay I would just
say again depending on the size of your
bottle I probably would use about 5 for
this size bottle and I'm actually gonna
pick the tea tree oil just because
actually because this is mine and the
other two belonged to my daughter no oil
that I actually own and then what you're
going to want to do is kind of judge and
look at the side of the bottle and see
how much room you have left and then the
rest you're going to kind of eyeball it
half is going to be your witch hazel and
half is going to be your your water so
and again if you're doing a four ounce
bottle you'll basically want almost two
ounces of each 2 ounces of witch hazel
and 2 ounces of the water ok really
simple you just pour everything in there
and then you're going to want to put
your lid on and because it does oh
goodness
because it does have oil and I'm not
going to remove that because it does
have oil in it you're going to want to
shake it up when you use it because it's
going to distribute it but it's really
nice I know we sprayed it beforehand but
it's a light little a little bit of a
grain and then you can just use it
freely I would be careful if you use
lavender that's not good for pets so I'd
be careful around your pets and then you
may also want to be careful about the
concentration with children like if you
used 40 drops you probably wouldn't want
to use that on your child you know it'd
be safe for an adult and then you could
actually make an oil mixture and just
kind of like put it behind your pulse
points if you only have the oil and you
didn't have time to make it
you actually your pulse points will kind
of send that vibration out there all
right the scent to keep those mosquitoes
away and mosquitoes I don't know they're
they're like the pesky Asst they're not
any fun
all right Hill City bride combination
Thank You Jennifer