This is the oil that helps repel mosquitoes most of all! When mosquitoes encounter lemongrass and its oils ... citronella oil to a spray bottle or lotion, you can easily make your own topical ...

Some people in the past have not been comfortable spraying on the kinds of insect repellents that contain chemicals such as DEET. So lemongrass, the essential oil, is a natural product.

Before 1957, when DEET (aka, the active ingredient in many repellent ... parts of unscented lotion with one part of the essential oil mixture. Since the cedarwood and lemongrass balance out ...