We try, in our posts to give you things that are useful and practical. This week we give you, DIY Bugatizer, it is useful, practical, and a must-have for many of us.
We live in the south and we have a farm, as you all know if you have read our other posts. We always have skeeters, nats, and “no-see-ums”. So we have been using a DIY bug repellant. But this bug repellant has the added bonus of being hand sanitizer and it has a great smell. It is a bug repellant and hand sanitizer combo, so it is called “Bugatizer”. We keep a pump bottle on the kitchen table, ready to go whenever we need it. It seems to work very well on the skeeters, nats, and “no-see-ums” but it also helps with fleas, ticks, and red bugs. Yes, we live in the country, on a farm, with animals and woods, we have all of these buggy things and more.
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To make your own DIY Bugatizer you will only need a few ingredients. You need hand sanitizer and essential oils. We almost always use StarWest essential oils, they are our go-to for organic, quality essential oils.
you will need:
10 to 20 drops of Lemongrass oil
10 to 20 drops of Tea Tree oil
10 or 20 drops Peppermint oil
A bottle of hand sanitizer either commercial or homemade
You may need to take a bit of sanitizer gel out of the bottle to get the oils in, depending on how full the bottle is to start with.
Then it is as simple as mixing the essential oils.
Add hand sanitizer gel and shake to mix.
The drops of essential oils will depend on the size sanitizer bottle you have. Obviously, the larger the bottle, the more essential oils you should add.
All of these essential oils are great for repelling bugs, that is why we use them for this recipe.
You may notice the essential oils change the color of the gel a slight bit, which is normal. It goes from clear gel to a cloudy look.
To use, just squirt out a small amount into your hand and rub it on the skin. As we are normally out on the farm, in the pasture on in the woods, we apply bugatizer to arms, legs, ankles, the back of the neck and anywhere else you do not want bug bites. It is safe to use around the face and ears.
Of course, bugatizer is for external use only. Do not put it in your eyes or nose, I imagine that would burn a good bit. And do not drink it, essential oils are not for drinking. We understand bugatizer may smell good enough to drink but just don’t.
There you have made your own bugatizer.
It may seem a bit of a cheat but we normally just buy the pump bottles of commercially made hand sanitizer and add the essential oils right to the bottle. You can make your own DIY hand sanitizer, we did a post a week ago on that. So you can DIY the hand sanitizer or buy it ready-made, either way, works. We usually have hand sanitizer on hand, home-made and commercial so we can make bugatizer quickly and easily when we need a refill. You can make a larger batch and split it up into carrying size bottles to take anywhere with you.
We use bugatizer a lot in the hotter months, well, spring, summer, and fall. Actually, we use it in all months but for the coldest part of the winter. We do live in the south and we do have some kind of buggy things most year-round.
This recipe is great as it covers hand sanitizer and bug repellent. It also has that nice, natural smell, not like many commercial bug repellents that smell awful. Sometimes, the smell of a commercial bug repellant is worse than the bug. But not bugatizer. You know what is in bugatizer and can pronounce all the words, not like commercial bug repellant. Bugatizer is also, kid, pet, and environmentally friendly.
That is all it takes to help protect you and your family from the buggy things that bite. Even the kids are used to hand sanitizer these days so they do not mind using bugatizer. The kids like the smell and it dries quickly so they do not feel sticky. You can use bugatizer and still go somewhere and people will think you are using natural perfume, they will not know it was bug repellant.
Bugatizer also makes for a great gift for the outdoorsy types. They will appreciate your thinking of them, giving them something practical and useful.
We hope you will try your hand at making bugatizer. It is quick, easy, affordable and you will be able to make it anytime you need it. Adding one more step to becoming more self-sufficient and keep bugs away.
Thank you for visiting and please come again for another edition of Out Standing in the Field.
Thanks for posting this useful information. Super simple. Living near the swamp the skeeters are already restless and viscous I might add. I can’t wait to give your bugatizer a try. I actually have everything needed already on hand. I’ll let you know how it works for me and my “buggy thing”(aka pests) magnets (aka grandkids.)😉