Natural Bug Repellant

Boric Acid is the best roach killer I've ever come across. It's old school.

 

All my life I have been on camping holidays etc and in all that time I can think of only two times when there was a spider in the tent. The best Idea is to get a bug net that completely surrounds the sleeping area and zips up

 

i've once read something about throwing ash around the place your sleeping, the bugs are supposed to dislike the ash and won't cross the line of ash. it won't prevent you from anything that is able to fly or comes from above. mabey you can rub yourself with ash

 

| don't think this helps with spiders, but it works with mesquitoes. Take some wet gooey mud, and paste a layer of mud on the exposed body part/s that you wish to conceal from the pests. This works- definately natural, but it messy.

Have an enjoyable camping trip!

 

campfire smoke always seems to repel mosquitoes, and gnats (or sand-fleas, no-see-ums, or whatever else they call them in the south) ... at least it worked in my backyard all the time

 

just reading my june copy of alive mag the other day and it says that essential oil of catnip is 10 times more effective than DEET.

pass it on,

DEET's a known carcinogen, dont want to be putting that stuff anywhere near your body.

cheers!
nimh

 

Technically DEET is considered to be [size=-1]"group D - [/size][size=-1]not classifiable as to human carcinogenicity[/size][size=-1]" by the EPA which means that there's no evidence that it can cause cancer in humans.
I'd honestly like to read a study that says otherwise.
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riiiiiight

you missed one key word there, bud. your quote shoud read "group D CARCINOGEN."

the tobacco industry claimed for years and years that tobacco wasnt carcinogenic either.

i'm not putting deet on myself, i'm not putting on my kid. there's something natural that works better, why not use that instead of argueing about what kind of carcinogen deet is?

the mind boggles

 

lol... thats sort of like saying that the meat the USDA labels as Grade A is good, even though its likely obtained from the same cows that have had pus infected body parts cut off first..

some things we just have to use our own common sense for..

 

The mind boggles indeed - I'm all for "natural" and "organic" solutions but there's plenty of things out there in nature that will kill you deader than dead - or are seriously carcinogenic/mutagenic. But you said that it's a "known carcinogen" when in fact it's no such thing. Sure it's possible that it contributes to cancer. But the same could be said about any number of things, essential oils, plants, whathaveyou. As for DEET - current research says that its probably pretty safe. Feel free to prove me wrong as I said.

I'm as hippie as they come but I understand the scientific method. Science doesn't lie - corporations sure do - but science doesn't.

Plus I never said anything about what you or anybody should put on your bodys just that DEET is by no means a "Known carcinogen" - claiming otherwise is just spreading falsehood.

Namaste

 

gah, i hope you're right, when i was a kid, i used to slather the stuff on.

yuckh.

ps, for the record, i consider deet to be dangerous.
cheers!

 

i thought it was rubbing garlic on you?
because i was with some guy on a camping trip and we got eatin up by mosquitos but he rubbed garlic on himself and had none

 

To keep away spiders? the answer is chestnuts. you poke a hole, a small hole, in the chestnut and the odour keeps away the spiders. if you are camping in a tent or something just put a few where you're sleeping or around where you are sleeping. I see spiders all the time in my house, but none in my room cuz i use chestnuts