Mosquito repellents are on the market since 1956, but if you don’t like them and you are afraid of negative effects in sprays, then there is a solution to help you. Start taking vitamin B1.
Vitamin B1 which also is known as thiamine is an essential vitamin that the human body needs. This vitamin is contained in foods such as yeast, oatmeal, brown rice, asparagus, kale, liver and eggs and is important in the fight against stress and boosting immunity.
This vitamin belongs to the group of water-soluble vitamins, so if you take a greater amount, the excess that your body doesn’t need will be flushed out when you urinate. Therefore, you don’t have to worry about taking too much.
The thing that helps you with mosquitoes is that this vitamin changes the way you smell to them. Having enough Vitamin B1 in the system makes you smell “yeasty” to mosquitoes, which makes them uninterested to bite.
Most importantly, it does not change the way you smell to other people. This has not been proved yet, but taking it every day has no negative effects, so feel free to give it a try. Certain conditions can lower thiamine in the body such as chronic alcoholism, Crohn’s disease, anorexia, and gastric bypass, so individuals with these conditions may benefit health-wise from taking an extra supplement.
Ingredients:
– Lavender oil
– Tea tree oil
– Cooled boiled water
– Witch hazel
How to prepare it:
fill a spray bottle of 8oz. halfway with the boiled water, then add ½ tsp of witch hazel. Then add 15 drops of tea tree oil after which you should add 15 drops of lavender oil.