Homemade Flyspray Recipe's?

a one litre spray bottle, half fill with apple cider vinegar, a small squirt of washing up liquid, a small glug of methelated spirits of vodka, enough citronella oil for you to be able to smell it, top up to the top with water- shake! Make sure you don't spray directly onto their face or in such a way that it can get into their eyes as it stings.
 
iv always don:

250ml cider vinegar
125ml cold tea
citronella oil, a few drops
lavendar oil

and thats it, i reckon it works!!!!
 
I have brewed one I got off here from Rema - thanks Rema.

I reckon it works well, Phaser is good but rather expensive
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1.5 litres of cold stewed tea
0.5 litres of malt vinegar
10 ml citronella

Put into a washed out coke bottle and shake, transfer into a spray bottle.

I mixed my oils and used 5 ml of citronella and 5 ml lemon grass and a couple of drops of tea tree oil.

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Mine are similar, I use chamomile tea as its lighter in colour and soothing. I use 10 ml of sensitive shampoo or washing up liquid to disperese the oils, 5ml citronella, 10 drops Tea tree, 10 drops lavender and two table spoons white wine vingear. I then top up to 1 litre with the tea. I was also advised to try an infusion of elder leaves. I am going to try it next time I brew.

I heard eucalyptus and cedar and marigold oil oil are also reputed to be good at repelling flies. My farrier told me a horror story about his wife buying a reputable brand of fly spray. She put it on with a sponge and put the sponge on her car. It took the paint clean off!!!!!

Its stictly homemade for me.
 
This is Theresa_F recipe that i tried....

5 caps of dettol - from a 500ml size bottle

250 ml of Avon Skin so Soft and fresh - this can be halved to 125 ml if midges not too bad.

1 teaspoon of citronella oil
1 teaspoon of eucalyptus oil
1 teaspoon of lavender oil
1 teaspoon of tea tree oil
1 teaspoon cedarwood oil

Put into a 1 litre spray bottle. Top up to make 1 litre with either water or cold tea. Shake well before spraying and give a quick shake after every few squirts to make sure the oil is mixed with the water.
 
Have since heard that you can replace some or all the avon with liquid paraffin - I am going to stick with the avon as I find it excellent for the midges and always get in plenty when it is on offer to keep the cost down.

Worked well on me too yesterday when I rode out
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We have just made some out off Citronella and Tea tree oils mixed with water, not sure how much of each though.

We have also made a concoction of:
Cold tea
Garlic powder
Citronella
Vinegar

But I have to say that none of it really really works, those damn flies are very persistent!!
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I'm really interested in all these recipes as the stuff I am using has just run out and it didn't really work anyway! But does anyone have the science behind the citronella, the tea, the Avon 'O Im Such a Softy' and all that mularky?! Is cider vinegar better than organic white or chip shop? Is the tea better to be caff or decaff, bags or loose leaf and why??? I'm not being fasetious (see, can't even spell it!!) but I'd love to know why and how some of these things work against those dratted flies. Then I will buy 10 years supply of the stuff that does work and stop my poor neddy being bugged - literally! (Just notice a hooj mozzie on my delete button of the keyboard. I did. And he was!
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I use Theresa_F's recipe - have done since last summer and works well - OH's mare does still get bitten but has that plus a Mark Todd combi fly sheet which does the trick.

Theresa_F - what was the link for the online oils shop - I've run out!
 
The link is http://www.essentialoilsdirect.co.uk/

I order in bulk to get the wholesale prices and free postage. The oils will keep if you put them in a cool dark place, they also do lots of other lovely stuff, or you can order with a friend to get the discounts.

Glad you find the spray working - certainly did on me at the weekend when I hacked out - both Chancer and I were well sprayed before venturing out and came back without a bite or being pestered.
 
I use Theresas too. Brill. She kindly sent it to me. I haven't had a fly bite on her since I have been using it and she has no fly rug on as she trashed it in a million pieces!!! I even sprayed it on me tonight as the midges were so bad. Takes about 2 mins to make and cheap too. Go through a bottle a week with 2 horses being done
 
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