I cannot tell you how excited I am to discover this ridiculously easy, natural tick repellent that really works!
But before I spill the secret, let me give you some background information:
We just moved to a property deep in the woods of Pennsylvania.
My dog and I were diagnosed at the same time with Lymeās Disease 2 summers ago
We caught it early, got treated and now weāre all better.
I hike and/or creek swim in the woods with my dog 5 to 6 days a week, March through October.
Where I currently live has the greatest number of confirmed Lymeās Disease cases in the whole country.
I hate chemicals.
Before I discovered this natural tick repellent, weāve been pulling a minimum of 3 to 4 ticks off my dog each day and usually one to two on me.
I hate ticks.
My husband told me we had to figure something out with all these ticks or else he wanted to put Frontline on my dog.
I hate Frontline.
Itās full of dangerous chemicals and not good for dogs (or for people that love to hug and cuddle their pets).
Okay, got all that?
So then a few weeks ago, my essential oil guru, Meagan from Growing Up Herbal, wrote a guest post on Primally Inspired teaching us how to make super easy homemade bug repellent oils. I tried her easy recipe since bugs are terrible where I live this time of year. Her homemade oil recipe worked like a charm! Truth be told, it even surprised me how well it worked.
In the post, she also mentioned that Rose Geranium Essential Oil was a good tick repellent for animals. So I bought some Rose Geranium oil, hoping and praying it would work or else I would have to go the Frontline route.
I put a drop of Rose Geranium Oil in between my dogs shoulder blades and a drop at the base of his tail each day before we go outside. Thatās it.
I also put a drop on the insides of my wrist and a drop behind my ears.
We did our daily hike and creek swim in the woods. We came back. No ticks.
What, no ticks?! I thought this is too good to be true.
To this day (itās been going on 4 weeks now *update 3/22/14 ā itās been going on over 8 months now and no ticks!!!!!!!), I have not pulled one single tick off my dog or me. We went from pulling 3 to 4 ticks a day off him to NONE. Zip. Zero. Nada.
This is huge!
I have no idea why Rose Geranium oil works so well, but honestly, I donāt even care. Okay, scratch that ā Iām a nerd and I am kind of curious to learn why it works so well, so if you know, please enlighten me.
Iām just so happy that I donāt have to put Frontline on my dog and that I found something completely natural that costs way less than Frontline AND that really works for both me and my dog! (and it smells really, really good!)
But before I spill the secret, let me give you some background information:
We just moved to a property deep in the woods of Pennsylvania.
My dog and I were diagnosed at the same time with Lymeās Disease 2 summers ago
We caught it early, got treated and now weāre all better.
I hike and/or creek swim in the woods with my dog 5 to 6 days a week, March through October.
Where I currently live has the greatest number of confirmed Lymeās Disease cases in the whole country.
I hate chemicals.
Before I discovered this natural tick repellent, weāve been pulling a minimum of 3 to 4 ticks off my dog each day and usually one to two on me.
I hate ticks.
My husband told me we had to figure something out with all these ticks or else he wanted to put Frontline on my dog.
I hate Frontline.
Itās full of dangerous chemicals and not good for dogs (or for people that love to hug and cuddle their pets).
Okay, got all that?
So then a few weeks ago, my essential oil guru, Meagan from Growing Up Herbal, wrote a guest post on Primally Inspired teaching us how to make super easy homemade bug repellent oils. I tried her easy recipe since bugs are terrible where I live this time of year. Her homemade oil recipe worked like a charm! Truth be told, it even surprised me how well it worked.
In the post, she also mentioned that Rose Geranium Essential Oil was a good tick repellent for animals. So I bought some Rose Geranium oil, hoping and praying it would work or else I would have to go the Frontline route.
I put a drop of Rose Geranium Oil in between my dogs shoulder blades and a drop at the base of his tail each day before we go outside. Thatās it.
I also put a drop on the insides of my wrist and a drop behind my ears.
We did our daily hike and creek swim in the woods. We came back. No ticks.
What, no ticks?! I thought this is too good to be true.
To this day (itās been going on 4 weeks now *update 3/22/14 ā itās been going on over 8 months now and no ticks!!!!!!!), I have not pulled one single tick off my dog or me. We went from pulling 3 to 4 ticks a day off him to NONE. Zip. Zero. Nada.
This is huge!
I have no idea why Rose Geranium oil works so well, but honestly, I donāt even care. Okay, scratch that ā Iām a nerd and I am kind of curious to learn why it works so well, so if you know, please enlighten me.
Iām just so happy that I donāt have to put Frontline on my dog and that I found something completely natural that costs way less than Frontline AND that really works for both me and my dog! (and it smells really, really good!)