A new homeopathic insect repellent

[Shannon Nelson]

And on a less aesthetically pleasing but practical note, when I am vacuuming for bugs (fleas every now and then, thank you kitties), I vacuum up a bit of diatomaceous earth, so they don't hop back out and re-infest. (I did make that mistake once -- I forgot, and they hopped…) I used to use a bit of flea collar, but the diatomaceous earth is MUCH better!

[Tanya Marquette]

I gave my daughter lavender oil for bed bug bites. It gave momentary relief but that was all.
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From: Maria Bohle
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 4:52 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] A new homeopathic insect repellent

If you are looking for a decent bug repellant
, and I do not know about bed bugs, try coconut oil and lavender oil. Rub on skin let it be absorbed, takes about 20 minutes and you are good to go. Works amazingly well. The critters do not like it.
Maria

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[Maria Bohle]

I have been using coconut oil as a face cream, skin cream and even for hair cream. Just for my own enjoyment I added some Lavender essential oils to the coconut oil I was using, it is wonderful and I found out purely by accident that the bugs did't bite when I was wearing it. I love gardening and I was out there in the brush trimming roses and pulling weeds, picked up quite a few ticks and not one tried to make a meal out of me. My grounds foreman was complaining of gnats when I was talking with him and as he swatted at the critters I had no problem at all. Same thing for the 'flying vampires', I gave him a bottle of lavender coconut oil and he swears by it, uses it daily - no more bug bites.

Put it on at least 20 minutes before going out, it takes awhile to soak in but once absorbed it doesn't collect dust or dirt.

The other evening i was so tired I just went to bed after my bath and forgot the skin cream - got 4 tick bites and mosquitoes found me quite agreeable. The stuff works!!!
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[Maria Bohle]

I think I put a half an eyedropper in 4 ounces of coconut oil.

Let me know how it works if you try it.

Maria
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[Lu Ann Weis]

I use coconut oil as my body and face cream too. Now I will add lavender oil! Thanks Maria. LuAnn

[Tanya Marquette]

good to know.
coconut oil is a terrifically healthful substance for so many things.
I always wipe the spoon that was used to scoop the oil in the cooking pot
on my skin—don’t like to waste a drop of it.
for mosquitoes and gnats, cidar vinegar has been my goto product for years.
just splash it on me before going into the garden and it keeps the buggers away.
it, too, is good for the skin.
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From: Maria Bohle
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 11:48 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] A new homeopathic insect repellent

I have been using coconut oil as a face cream, skin cream and even for hair cream. Just for my own enjoyment I added some Lavender essential oils to the coconut oil I was using, it is wonderful and I found out purely by accident that the bugs did't bite when I was wearing it. I love gardening and I was out there in the brush trimming roses and pulling weeds, picked up quite a few ticks and not one tried to make a meal out of me. My grounds foreman was complaining of gnats when I was talking with him and as he swatted at the critters I had no problem at all. Same thing for the 'flying vampires', I gave him a bottle of lavender coconut oil and he swears by it, uses it daily - no more bug bites.
Put it on at least 20 minutes before going out, it takes awhile to soak in but once absorbed it doesn't collect dust or dirt.
The other evening i was so tired I just went to bed after my bath and forgot the skin cream - got 4 tick bites and mosquitoes found me quite agreeable. The stuff works!!!
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[Sheri Nakken]

just because something is diluted and succussed does not make it homeopathic.

What makes it homeopathic is if it fits the laws and principles of homeopathy
1. Similia Similbus Curentur, "Let likes cure likes"
2. The Single Remedy
3. The Minimum Dose
4. The Potentized Remedy

Unless it does this, it is not homeopathic. It may be a diluted and succussed product, but is not individualized to each person or insect, sorry to say
Sheri

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[Sheri Nakken]

certainly Soroush, I agree
Always teaching on this - I didn't included proving in my list, and should have, somehow - you can't have #1 - Similia Similbus Curentur, "Let likes cure likes" - unless the substance has gone through a proving or a rich full documentation of its symptom picture from poisonings, sometimes.

And certainly agree about mixtures - how do we know what they would do in a combination in a proving.
Sheri

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[Maria Bohle]

Great, this answers the question then if it was the coconut oil or the lavender oil that was repelling critters.
Hahnemann was so smart, we really do not know what is working unless we take them one at a time. And yes, I did try lavender alone, too intense and evaporated too fast to use it alone. Perhaps the coconut oil works as a good carrier.
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[Sheri Nakken]

Just remember, those of you that use homeopathy, that lavender can antidote a remedy. Less like if you use 5th and 6th edition dosing in water, more likely if using dry potenices, I have found. I was antidoted long ago by lavender (or any other strong essential oil or other strong pungent substance)
Sheri

'At 09:17 AM 6/21/2013, you wrote:
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