Homemade All Natural Bug Spray

I love me a good home design magazine… and I wish this post were an announcement that I am being featured in one (like my friend Roeshel just announced!  Way to go Roeshel!).  Alas, it is just me talking about reading magazines, but still, I can retain the being featured dream.

Anyway, I was reading my May edition of Country Living magazine and they had the greatest all natural bug spray recipe.  I HAD to try my hand at making.

So I went to the store and bought my essential oils, lemongrass, eucalyptus and citronella oil.  I purchased the witch hazel at Walmart, cuz the specialty store’s version was $12 dollars ($1.44 at Wally world by the way! Score!)

The article also had a great link to some beautiful glass bottles… but lets get real here – this is a kid friendly house and metal or plastic is better.  What I ended up finding were some tine 2 oz spray bottles in the travel bins at Walmart too.  They were about a buck.  (and technically they hold about 4 ounces)

Homemade Natural Bug Spray Recipe

Ingredients

3 1 ⁄2 ounces (which is basically 13 cup) of Witch Hazel

1 ⁄2 teaspoon Lemongrass Oil

1 ⁄ 2 teaspoon Eucalyptus Oil

1 ⁄ 2 teaspoon Citronella Oil

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a small four-once spray bottle.  Country LIving had a great source for cheap an amber glass mister for $1.07 at Specialtybottle.com.

When you use it, be sure to shake the bottle contents before spraying (You can see in the picture below how the oils separates from the witch hazel)  p.s. It smells divine!

Since the weather has been nice enough to enjoy, we’ve spent a lot of time outside.  I had to show these funny pictures.  We got the girls new bathing suits.  The tops are fine but the bottoms don’t fit at all..  Oh well, they were wearing diapers anyway.  But I had to get some low rider pictures before I helped Lydia cuz it was so funny!

Let me know what you think it you make it!

What have you all been up to lately?

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