You can use fresh basil to prepare a DIY insect-repellent spray. Combine four ounces of boiled
water with four to six ounces of fresh basil leaves.
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Leave the mixture to steep for several hours before you take out the leaves and squeeze all of
the moisture out of the leaves into the liquid.
Add four ounces of vodka to the basil water. Mix and close well. Keep it in the fridge and apply it as an insect repellent on your skin when you’re going outside.
Low maintenance plants
Lavender
repellent for the skin. It will nourish and calm down the skin too.
Lemon thyme
This herb is great at repelling mosquitoes when crushed. It has 62 percent repellency of DEET.
Prepare the leaves by cutting off a few stems and rubbing them between your hands.
