Question
I would like the info on the natural repellants that was mentioned in a previous response to someone else.
"f you would like all there natural repellants, write me, and I will be glad to share them with you."

Answer
Hi Shelly;
Okey dokey, here they are.
Inside the house, I use fresh rosemary to repel all kinds of insects.
About once a month, I put a piece of fresh rosemary about 1 to 2 inches long on each cabinet and pantry shelf,and linen closet shelf. A few that size in the corners of the closets, and a piece about 2 to 3 inches long under each appliance, under the vanities in the bathrooms, under the hot water heater, anyplace roaches can come in or hide.
I am told basil is also good. I use a lot of sweet basil in cooking, and I use lemon scented furnish polish and diswasher liquid, so that puts a lemon scent in the house that is not evident to me, but I am sure the bugs can smell it.
I use a lot of lavender, and in my herb book for aroma therapy etc, it sayd lavender also repels a lot of insects.
I use it for relaxing. Wizard has a lavender scented room sporay, and I spray a itle of that in the bedroom before I go to bed.
I also get lavender oil to put a few drops in my bath, and even use lavender body spray sometimes.
A drop of lavender on your hands, rubbed together, then rubbed over a stuffed toy to give to a too tired baby, will reax them and help them drop off to sleep.
I opened a place in the seam of my great grandbaby's favorite stuffed toy, and sewed a little pocket and velcro tape to close it with, for my grand daughter to put a cotton ball with a drop or two of lavender on it. That scents it for several days.
I buy a bottle of cedar oil at the healthfood store.
A tiny bottle is about 8 dollars, but that lasts me about a year or more.
I paint a stripe of it along the clothes rods in the closets, and along the baseboard and door frame. I do that 2 or 3 times a year, and that helps keep things that eat clothes out.
Pennyroyal oil will kill fleasand ticks,both the adults and their larvae.
It smothers them, like it would you if you tied a plastic bag over your head.
I put Epsom Salts in my food processor or blender and whirr it till it is as fine as i can get it.
I add a few drops to some of that to use as a carpet dust.
Store it in glass, because if you put it in a zip lock bag, the scent will wear away in a day or two.
DON'T use pennyroyal if you have cats.
It is EXTREMELY TOXIC to cats.
To repel fleas if you have cats, use catnip or catmint.
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Outside.
I put cedar bark mulch all over my yard to repel all kinds of insects.
I put a trail of it about an inch high and 3 or 4 inches wide around the perimeter of the house and outbuildings to rpel termites.
I do this in the spring when it is time for termites to swarm.
You don't put a lot of the bark mulch around, just enough to get a thin layer of it on the majority of the lawn to make it smell like cedar. The scent is what repels them.
I have large containers at each doorway, front and back.
It is a very attractive lant at the entrances, and it helps keep houseflies from coming in when they door is opened.
Lavender also repels mosquitoes to a good extent.
I spray with lavender body spray, and they don't bite me at all. I am usually mosquito bait.
Ceyenne pepper will keep away squirrels from your fruit trees, but you need to spray it before fruit sts, or I am thinking you would flavor the fruit with garlic, and it would be hot.
Those hot pepper seeds you buy in the spice sction to sprinkle on pizza etc, will keep squirrels out of your bird feeders if you sprinkle some in with the seeds, but it will not bother the birds.
Cayenne pepper sprinkled around the perimeter of your attic, under the eaves will keep critters from coming into your attic.
Sprinkle it down the holes to repel moles, gophers etc.
Chopped lemon peels scattered in your flower beds will keep cats from using it for a litter box, also in your cantainers.
Chopped orange peels will chase fire ants.
That is all I can think of right now.
If you have a specific critter problem, write me. If it is not one I already know, I will look it up in my herb book.
Charlotte