Things You'll Need
- 2 cups vinegar
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup lotion
- 1/2 oz. Neem oil
- 1/2 oz. essential oil
- Spray bottle
- Funnel
Instructions
Remove the nozzle from an old fly spray bottle or a commercially bought spray bottle. Insert a funnel.
Pour 2 cups of vinegar into the bottle, using the funnel. You can use either apple-cider or distilled vinegar. Add 1 cup of water and 1 cup of lotion. Lotions with bug-repelling essential oils work better.
Add 1/2 ounce each of Neem oil and another essential oil. Insect-repelling oils include geranium, eucalyptus, lemongrass, orange, cedarwood, juniper, rosemary, lavender, thyme, garlic, tea tree, peppermint, lemon, pine, and clove.
Replace the nozzle and shake. It makes about 32 ounces of fly spray, which is the typical size of a bottle of commercial fly spray.