23 Effective, Quick, and Root-based Methods to Repel Mosquitoes in the Bedroom

The transitional weather is also the time when mosquitoes thrive the most, bringing many troublesome diseases, especially for families with young children. If you're concerned about using mosquito repellent sprays affecting your health, then let's explore effective ways to repel mosquitoes naturally with easily accessible ingredients below.

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1. Mosquito Repellent Essential Oils

Currently, there are many effective mosquito repellent essential oils available on the market. If you're too busy to make your own blend, you can buy ready-made bottles of essential oils for use. Note to carefully research the ingredients to avoid health issues from prolonged use. If you have children, opt for organic essential oils with natural ingredients for absolute safety.

Some common ways to use mosquito repellent essential oils:

• Use an essential oil diffuser: Add a few drops to the diffuser to spread the aroma throughout the room.
• Mix essential oil into floor cleaning water: Adding a few drops of essential oil to the final rinse water when mopping the floor will help keep the floor clean, fresh, and effectively repel mosquitoes.
• Spray essential oil: Mix warm water with essential oil in a 70-30 ratio, pour into a spray bottle, and spray around the room. This method can repel mosquitoes as well as other insects like flies, ants, etc.

2. Eucalyptus Oil

Apart from its use for massage, you can utilize a bottle of eucalyptus oil available in your household to effectively repel mosquitoes. The method of using eucalyptus oil to repel mosquitoes is very simple as follows:

• Direct application to the skin: This is the simplest and quickest way to utilize eucalyptus oil for mosquito repellent. The scent of eucalyptus oil will make mosquitoes and other insects tend to stay away.
• Open the bottle to let the aroma naturally diffuse: You can place the oil bottle in a corner and facing the direction of the wind, open the lid to let the oil aroma naturally disperse in the space. This solution can replace applying it to the skin if you cannot tolerate the heat of the oil.
• Apply eucalyptus oil to the fan blades: If your living space is using a fan, this solution will help the eucalyptus oil scent cling to the fan blades and spread everywhere.

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3. Plant Mosquito-Repellent Plants

Planting trees is the most environmentally friendly solution recommended. If you have a passion for gardening, you can leverage plants that not only repel mosquitoes but also provide aesthetic value.

There are plenty of plants that repel mosquitoes and insects, easy to grow and require minimal care. If planted around your garden, you can choose citrus, lemongrass, ginger, mint, peppermint, basil, etc. If grown indoors for landscaping purposes, you can plant small pots like: Lotus (fragrant leaf water lily), lavender, citronella, juniper, etc.

4. Coffee Grounds

Mosquitoes have a keen sense of smell and particularly detest strong scents like coffee. Reusing coffee grounds for mosquito repellent is a cost-effective and efficient solution. The scent of coffee is not harmful to health, ensuring safety for all family members:

The method to repel mosquitoes using coffee grounds is as follows:

• Step 1: Use empty cans or aluminum foil, pour coffee grounds in and compress tightly.
• Step 2: Place these cans in the corner of the house and under the bed.
• Step 3: Use matches to ignite the coffee grounds in the cans whenever needed for room fumigation. Note the need to open the room door for ventilation, allowing mosquitoes and insects to fly out.

5. Use Dried Orange, Lemon, and Grapefruit Peels

The essential oils released from orange, lemon, and grapefruit peels are pleasant to humans but repel insects significantly. Utilize the peels of these three fruits as simple mosquito-repelling ingredients at home. The implementation is as follows:

• Step 1: Dry the peels of oranges, lemons, and grapefruits under sunlight or put them in a dryer to dry.
• Step 2: Use strings to tie them together into bundles at one end and hang them up. Choose locations near ventilated doors, entrances, or windows to avoid stuffiness.
• Step 3: Burn the other end when needed for room fumigation to repel mosquitoes.

6. Garlic

The strong pungent smell emitted from garlic will quickly make mosquitoes and insects 'run away fast.' Using garlic as a mosquito-repelling fragrance is not only cost-effective but also very easy to implement. There are 2 common ways to repel mosquitoes with garlic as follows:

• Apply garlic on the skin: This is a method commonly used in the past to repel mosquitoes for young children. By applying garlic water on the skin, it will easily repel mosquitoes, flies, and ants. Garlic water is also very gentle and there is no need to worry about the child's skin being irritated.
• Room spray with garlic solution: Boil water and 1 – 2 cloves of peeled garlic until the garlic becomes soft and emits a strong smell. Then, pour it into a spray bottle and spray it in the room whenever needed to repel mosquitoes.

7. Lemongrass

Lemongrass is easy to grow and easy to buy. The scent of lemongrass always brings a sense of relaxation, likened to a very effective air purifier. This is also a scent that mosquitoes detest the most. Here are simple ways to repel mosquitoes with lemongrass:

• Hang a bunch of lemongrass in the corner: This is the simplest method for those who are busy and don't have time. Just take a bunch of lemongrass, wrap it neatly, and hang it in a corner of the room. The scent emanating from the lemongrass may be subtle, but it's enough to keep mosquitoes away from this area.
• Room spray with lemongrass water: Boil lemongrass in water until you can smell the fragrance, pour it into a spray bottle, and use it to spray the room when needed.
• Use lemongrass essential oil: Choose essential oils extracted from lemongrass, add a few drops to an essential oil diffuser whenever you need to diffuse the room and repel mosquitoes.

8. Vacuum Cleaner

Areas such as corners and under furniture where cleanliness is hard to maintain, and environments with high humidity, are ideal environments for mosquitoes and other insects to thrive and breed. Fine dust particles are also not easy to clean with conventional cleaning tools.

In these areas, you can utilize a vacuum cleaner to clean up thoroughly and suck mosquitoes into the machine's filter bag. Note that a high-power vacuum cleaner is needed to effectively suck up winged insects like mosquitoes, flies, and gnats.

9. Urgo Band combined with essential oils, eucalyptus oil

In addition to their role in sticking to wound surfaces to stop bleeding and prevent inflammation, individual Urgo adhesive bands can also be used effectively to repel mosquitoes when combined with essential oils or eucalyptus oil. The method is simple:

• Step 1: Prepare 2-4 individual Urgo adhesive bands, essential oils, or eucalyptus oil.
• Step 2: Remove the Urgo adhesive band pieces and place a few drops of essential oil or eucalyptus oil in the middle of the adhesive part.
• Step 3: Stick them onto the front frame of the electric fan.
• Step 4: Turn on the fan to utilize the airflow from the fan blades to diffuse the scent of the essential oil or eucalyptus oil into the surrounding space.

10. Lemon and lavender flowers

Combining lemon with lavender flowers is also a highly effective mosquito repellent solution that not many people know about. Lavender flowers are readily available in traditional medicine or herbal stores, and they are relatively inexpensive. To implement this, follow these steps:

• Step 1: Prepare a few lemons and some dried lavender flowers.
• Step 2: Cut the lemons in half and insert thickly the dried lavender flowers onto the flesh of each lemon half.
• Step 3: Place the lemon halves with inserted lavender in the corners of the house where mosquitoes are frequent. You can also place them in pots or empty cans for cleanliness purposes.

11. Mosquito-proof mesh doors, solid doors

Nowadays, modern housing designs often install mosquito-proof mesh doors to create a living space completely isolated from mosquitoes and other insects. If repeated room fumigation solutions become cumbersome, installing mosquito-proof mesh doors will save a lot of time for this task.

In high-rise apartment buildings, mosquito-proof mesh doors also serve to block dust and large air currents from entering the house. These types of mosquito-proof mesh doors are designed to be suitable for most installation locations. Additionally, the prices of various types of mesh doors are diverse, compatible with different materials, meeting the needs and financial capabilities of each family.

12. Electric Mosquito Racket

An electric handheld device, resembling a tennis racket, encased in an electrified mesh to swiftly kill mosquitoes. Electric mosquito rackets are no longer unfamiliar to households today, especially those with young children.

Electric rackets come at an affordable price point and can be recharged for multiple uses. They are an incredibly fast and convenient mosquito-killing device.

13. Mosquito Traps

Mosquitoes locate their targets by the amount of CO2 emitted by humans or animals. Based on this principle, various traps emitting CO2 can be homemade to attract and trap mosquitoes. Here's how to make one:

• Step 1: Prepare the following ingredients: Plastic bottle, sugar, baking soda or yeast, warm water, newspaper.
• Step 2: Cut off 1/3 of the water bottle, pour in 200ml of warm water and 50g of sugar, stir until dissolved. Wait for the water to cool, then add 5g of baking soda.
• Step 3: Seal the bottle with tape and flip it upside down.
• Step 4: Wrap newspaper around the bottle to seal it, place it in a dark corner to attract mosquitoes and insects.

14. Dishwashing liquid, fabric softener, floor cleaner

Dishwashing liquid and fabric softener are both alkaline and have the ability to quickly break down mosquito eggs. Moreover, the scents of dishwashing liquid and fabric softener will naturally attract mosquitoes. To take advantage of this property, use about 2 tablespoons of dishwashing liquid, mix it in a bowl of clean water, and place it in areas with many mosquitoes to attract and lure them.

Using floor cleaner containing natural ingredients like lemon and lemongrass also effectively repels mosquitoes. You can utilize them to clean and dry the floor while keeping insects away.

15. Basil

Basil is also a natural herb that is easy to buy, easy to grow, and has a great effect in repelling mosquitoes. There are many ways to use basil to repel mosquitoes as follows:

• Apply basil essential oil on the skin: Crush basil leaves with your hands or a mortar to extract the oil, then apply it directly to the skin.
• Use basil water spray: Boil about 300 grams of basil leaves with distilled water. Then, transfer it to a spray bottle and use it to spray the room when needed.
• Plant basil: Planting basil around the house is an effective solution to repel mosquitoes in the garden.

16. Camphor

Camphor is commonly used to eliminate odors and mildew in rooms. It is also an effective mosquito repellent. The strong scent of camphor makes mosquitoes suffocate, causing them to stay away.

17. Candle

Using scented candles is highly favored by young people nowadays. The aroma emitted from scented candles will relax the mind. Burning scented candles with extracts from lemon, lemongrass, peppermint, etc., is a convenient way to repel mosquitoes. Along with the heat of the candle, the aroma will be maximally diffused, making insects unwilling to approach such unpleasant areas.

Important Notes When Applying Natural Mosquito Repellents at Home

When using natural mosquito repellent methods, you should also consider combining the following to eradicate mosquitoes at the root, creating a barrier separating living spaces from harmful insects:

• Regularly tidy up the house to keep the living space clean and dry.
• Completely eliminate hiding places for flies and mosquitoes such as: buckets, pots, old gutters, pet water bowls, etc.
• Use mosquito nets when sleeping: Low-lying areas are difficult to completely eliminate mosquitoes. Therefore, when sleeping, it's necessary to use mosquito nets to ensure no mosquito bites, preventing unwanted diseases.

The article above shares all the common and easy-to-make mosquito repellent methods. Using the ways to repel mosquitoes mentioned not only brings quick and cost-effective results but also ensures the safety of all family members' health. Don't forget to visit Mytour Blog to explore essential tips for your daily life.