Homemade Fly Spray Recipe
A natural homemade fly spray recipe that will prevent flies around your homestead. Made with safe, non-toxic ingredients!
Ingredients
- 4 cups raw apple cider vinegar (where to buy raw apple cider vinegar) OR make your own vinegar
- 20 drops rosemary essential oil (where to buy my favorite essential oils)
- 20 drops basil essential oil
- 20 drops peppermint essential oil
- 2 tablespoons liquid oil (olive oil, canola oil, or mineral oil will work)
- 1 tablespoon dish soap (Like this one)
Instructions
Mix together in a spray bottle. (This really cool mason jar lid sprayer cap would do the job!)
Apply to the animals frequently (give it a good shake before applying). And be careful, it smells strong.
Notes
- If you don’t have access to raw apple cider vinegar, you can still use pasteurized apple cider vinegar or white vinegar. I just think the raw goodness packs an extra punch.
- Speaking of vinegar, if you have any glass quart-sized vinegar jars hanging around, often you can screw on a spray top for a cool glass spray bottle.
- If you don’t have these exact essential oils, no worries. There are TONS of oils that repel insects including lavender, tea tree, pine, citronella, arborvitae, thyme, etc. Feel free to play around and mix and match.
- In the market for a spray bottle? This lid allows you to mix up this spray in a regular old mason jar, plop the lid on… and you’re good to go!
