Bye bye mosquito
20,00 €
Mosquito repellent.
Summer is here, and with it plenty of “vampires”. Here in my village mosquitoes do not attack us the way they did when we lived in Formentera, but ticks do: right now they are lodged in the male ferns growing along the paths. The Esencias de Liébana apothecary is never without a 100% natural, effective repellent. This formula has improved over the years and I am now completely happy with it.
A huge WORMWOOD plant (Artemisia absinthium) grows in my vegetable garden, and I extract its bitter principles with sulphite-free apple vinegar made by the Liébana cider house PAGO DE TOLINA. It gives our skin a taste that insects and parasites (mites included) find far from pleasant.
The hydrosol I use is obtained by steam distillation of the bay laurels growing around me, and its components (eugenol, limonene, alpha-terpineol, sabinene, cineole, linalool and alpha-pinene) are more than well documented as insect repellents. I also add garlic tincture, whose sulphur compounds have always frightened the “bloodsuckers”.
The calendula oil in this formula soothes the skin and leaves it soft, while carrying the essential oils of citronella, lemongrass (from the citronella family), geranium, lemon eucalyptus and basil, which work naturally and effectively to perfume the skin and keep away all those creatures that would like to feed on us. A formula that politely, and “without violence”, says BYE BYE.
125 mL bottle
*Ingredients: Bay laurel hydrolat (sp. Laurus nobilis). Wormwood vinegar. Oil macerate of calendula flower (sp. Calendula officinalis). Spagyric tincture of garlic. Essential oils of citronella, lemongrass, geranium, lemon eucalyptus and basil.
How to use:
- Children from 30 months to 6 years: apply only to the arms and legs, 1 to 2 times a day.
- Adults and children from 7 years: apply to exposed areas of the body and spread the product until it is fully absorbed. Use every 7 hours. It can be applied to the forehead and neck, and on the face, taking care that the product does not get into the eyes.
- Pregnant women from the fourth month of pregnancy and breastfeeding women: apply at most once in the morning and once at night.
- Reapply after bathing.
