Activities and long festive evenings, in summer, we like to take advantage of the sun and the warm and warm temperatures to live outside. And it is common that mosquitoes are part of the game!
Fortunately, there are natural solutions solutions based onessential oils to avoid being attacked by insects insects as well as to soothe the itching caused by their bites.
What are the anti-mosquito essential oils?
For not to be bitten by mosquitoes, the best solution is to scare them away to scare them away by using essential oils which have a repulsive effect. These insects that love to bite us to get a little bit of our blood, they especially hate blood have a particular aversion to lemony odors.
These are indeed suspected of disturbing their nervous system. The most effective essential oils against effective against mosquitoes have in common to have a delicate lemon smell. lemony smell.
Essential oils have the added advantage of being natural products that, when natural products that, when used properly, have no negative impact on health and the health and the environment, unlike chemical insecticides.
You can choose the choice between 3 strategies based on of essential oils to scare away the mosquitoes. You can indeed diffuse them in the atmosphere, impregnate your clothes with a few clothes with a few drops or spread a lotion based on oils on your skin. oils on your skin.
Lemongrass oil
The essential oil essential oil of Citronella of Java is a particularly effective repellent mosquitoes thanks to its high concentration of citronellol (approximately 15%), geraniol (about 20%) and citronellal (45%).
A few drops of
java lemongrass in your diffuser of essential oils allow
to keep mosquitoes away for a long time. However, be careful not to prolong the vaporization
vaporization beyond 30 minutes.
Also avoid the presence of pregnant women or children under 7 years of age near the device during the diffusion. It is also possible to make a repellent oil for skin application, still forbidden to pregnant women and young children, with essential oil of Citronella of Java. It is then very important to respect the dosage.
This oil can indeed be irritating for the mucous membranes and contains many allergenic compounds in high doses. It is therefore imperative to dilute it in a vegetable oil before use.
The maximum concentration is thus 3% for children and 6% for an adult. A few drops of repellent oil containing Java Lemongrass on the skin are enough to keep mosquitoes away for 3 to 4 hours.
Fight against mosquitoes with Rose Geranium
If you don't like lemon scents, you can also use essential oil of Rose Geranium to fight against mosquitoes.
Well Although it has a more flowery smell, it is also very rich in citronellol and geraniol and therefore scares away many insects.
You can spray it in the
spray it in the atmosphere or in the frame of doors and windows.
windows. Putting a few drops on your clothes is also a good solution to
solution to scare away intruders.
It is finally possible to prepare a repellent oil for a cutaneous application respecting the proportions of 10% essential oil for 90% ofoil vegetable oil. This oil will be particularly effective if you put a few drops in the areas where bare skin where bare skin attracts mosquitoes, such as the ankles or wrists. ankles or wrists.
The oil of Rose Geranium is not to be used in pregnant women and children under 6 years of age. under 6 years old. For the youngest, better to use floral water of Geranium. A to two drops of floral water behind each ear will make an effective rampart against insects.
What are the essential oils against itching?
It sometimes, despite all the precautions taken, mosquitoes are not intimidated by your natural intimidated by your natural repellent cocktail and go on the attack. attack. Don't panic!
The essential oils still answer present to relieve itching and reduce pimples. There are first of all essential oils that combine the repellent effect with the action anti-inflammatory action.
With their richness in geraniol, the essential oils of Java Lemongrass and Rose Geranium calms inflammations and oedemas. The essential oil of Lemongrass of Java thus acts very quickly to calm the pain and the itching itching (1 drop pure + 1 drop ofvegetable oil on the bite). And if you have not resisted the temptation to scratch your mosquito bites, you should know that the Rose Geranium has healing virtues (1 drop pure on the bite).
How to relieve bites with lavender essential oil?
Finally, if you are particularly sensitive to mosquito bites that cause you to experience severe swelling and swelling and intense itching, call on the services of a professional essential oil of Lavender Aspic. Thanks to its richness in linalool, cineole and camphor, this essential oil is both analgesic and anti-inflammatory.
Simply apply a pure drop ofessential oil of Lavender Aspic to immediately relieve pain and itching. In on the other hand, this essential oil should absolutely not be used in the pregnant woman, the child of less than 7 years and the asthmatic or epileptic persons. epileptics.