When making lemon water flea repellent do seeds have to be removed?
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Sherry
I under stand lemon seeds are poisoness in large doses, but when boiling them to make a flea repellent do the seeds have to removed first? I want to lightly spray my pets as well.
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I use a natural flea, tick and mosquito spray called Natural Care. It is a spray that I get at Walmart. Interesting part is that it contains lemon, clove, cinnamon and has a wonderful smell. I used a squeeze on repellent oil that had the same mix of oils too. So you might want to mix in some essential oil of clove and cinnamon in there too. The dogs would smell wonderful.
Oils are a little expensive but concentrated. I have been using the natural products for years and they work just fine.
I don't think that the seeds will hurt anything.
Always found that if a tick should get on the dog, a drop of tea tree oil on the tick and it drops right off. I did not even have time to put the cap back on the bottle and the tick detached and dropped off. Tea tree oil is healing for the bite of the tick too. It healed nicely.
We use lemongrass essential oil in a little coconut oil as a carrier for the dogs ears and tail area - no fleas.
Spray the perimeter of your property and base of your home with vinegar, really helps keep fleas away.
Make sure your homemade remedy has some sort of oil in it and test on pets first, sometimes can cause skin irritation and start a round of expensive vet visits.