You may get a laugh out of this discovery, but it's a reminder to get your recipes out before you do early prep work. I started a catnip infused oil earlier in May, thinking it was what I needed for my homemade bug spray. It was not. I then thought I used catnip oil for homemade tick repellent, and that was not it either. Having said that, I started a catnip tincture . Good grief. I started making the bug spray way back around 2015. It works to repel bug bites, but if it's very hot out, you do need to re-apply it during your time outdoors. (photos from September of 2015, when I first made the bug repellent spray) The link for the online recipe no longer works, but the original recipe was from Mountain Rose Herbs. They have changed the recipe and the title over three times since then. It was first called Bug-Away Spray, then a Skeeter spray, and again changed after that. I went searching for the link to share,...
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