Natural Bug Spray
DIY Natural Bug Spray
The mosquitoes and ticks are thriving this year! Be prepared with this natural bug spray to help keep them away from you and your children. You don’t want to use nasty chemicals, when essential oils can do the job and support your health at the same time.
DIY Natural Bug Spray Recipe
6 drops each Lemongrass and Geranium essential oils
4 drops each Cedarwood, Peppermint, and Thyme
Place in a 2 oz spray bottle and add water. Shake before using
Lemongrass – is often used for joint and muscle pain along with its use as an insect repellant. Cultivated in India, this pungent, lemony, and grassy scent, affects the immune system. It is antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, analgesic, ad a vasodilator. Lemongrass is good for illness, fever, improving digestion, calming the nervous system, clearing infections, stimulating the lymphatic system, and the respiratory system. Emotionally, it is the oil of positivity and purifying. Lemongrass reminds us that hosting negative thoughts and painful memories of the past does not serve us. Complaining and fearful thinking can clog up our mind and vision, distracting us from our purpose.
Geranium – is useful for emotional balance and the skin. It has been used for acne and helps to eliminate toxins and balance fatty secretions. It has been known to keep away ticks. Geranium encourages us to love and trust God, ourselves, and others. It leads us toward inspiration and intuition, releasing negative memories, tension and stress. Geranium is known as “poor man’s rose”, because of its similar qualities to rose oil. It will lift the spirit and balance the emotions.
Cedarwood – is antifungal, anti-infection, antiseptic, astringent, sedative, and insect repellent. It affects the nervous and respiratory systems of the body. Cedarwood is the oil of community and connection. It assists us in feeling safe as we form social bonds and helps us to feel that we have a place to belong. Just as it helps to repel bugs, it helps us to repel negative energy. Use with caution during pregnancy.
Peppermint – is simultaneously supports the heart and gut, since emotions of the heart also affect the small intestines. Use peppermint when you feel weighed down by heavy emotions, and remember that these emotions could be reflected by physically carrying excess weight. Focus on developing the joyful emotions of love, respect, belonging, peace, selflessness, and passion. Peppermint uplifts the heavy hearted. It affects the digestive and nervous systems, muscles and bones, and the skin. Useful for headaches, nausea, congestion, allergies, or to cool and invigorate the body. Use with caution during pregnancy or with high blood pressure.
Thyme – is antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antiseptic, and antioxidant. It is a general tonic for the nerves and stomach, helping with circulation, depression, respiratory infections, and immune function. Thyme is the oil of releasing and forgiving. It is one of the most powerful cleansing oils. It helps you to release old, dark negative feelings, toxic memories and thoughts. If we choose not to forgive and hold onto these negative energies, we will stay stuck in self-destructive patterns, poisoning our body and our health. Thyme can help us to let go of being the victim, forgive the bitterness of the past, and find trust and understanding for the things weighing us down. It can bring liberation from the past, knowing that what happened to us does not define us. Thyme allows us to let go of what has been “bugging” us. Avoid if pregnant or with high blood pressure.
Stop by the store in July 2026 to make your own bottle of Natural Bug Spray