Gardening Essential Oils Cabbage Worm Deterrent

    By / 11th August, 2017 / Essential Oil Recipes, Recipes / No Comments

    Essential oils can not only help us heal our bodies.  They are also very handy in gardening, as a pest deterrent.  We have used this recipe to discourage cabbage worms from eating our broccoli, cabbage, kale, and other plants.

    It also works against many types of caterpillars, and does not seem to discourage Lady bugs or the Preying Mantis–both of which are beneficial pest eating bugs for your garden.

    I found this recipe through dowsing, and it seems to work very well.  I sprayed it twice in one week, after finding a large infestation of cabbage worms in several areas of our high tunnel garden.

    By the second spraying, the infestation was down to just a few worms where there had been many.

    The following week I sprayed again, even though we were not finding worms on 90% of our crops.  It seems they have relocated, although we are prepared to spray again if they reappear.  This formula does not seem to kill the caterpillars, but does make them go elsewhere quickly!

    gardening with essential oils cabbage worm deterrent

    How to Tell That You Have Cabbage Worms

    • Small to medium sized green caterpillars on the underside of leaves, especially broccoli, cabbage, eggplant, kale.  Possibly other plants too.
    • Large holes in leaves, begin to make the leaf look like lace.
    • Small black droppings on leaves.
    • Occasional cocoons on the underside of leaves.
    • May see small grayish moths.

    Recipe for Cabbage Worm Spray

    Mix together

    1 gallon of water

    2 tablespoons Dr. Bronner’s soap (or other castille soap)

    10 drops cayenne CO2 extract

    20 drops peppermint essential oil

    2 drops garlic essential oil (contact us for availability) or 1 clove of garlic mixed in blender with 1 cup water

    Shake well.  Put spray in a garden sprayer or spray bottle.  Spray tops and undersides of leaves.

    Cocoa Butter Deodorant Recipe

    By / 11th August, 2017 / Essential Oil Recipes, Healing Techniques, Oils Blends & Body Care Recipes, Regeneration / No Comments

    This cocoa butter deodorant recipe is completely free of dangerous chemicals and ingredients. It is

    • Phthalate free
    • Gluten free
    • Glycerin free
    • Aluminum free
    • Preservative free
    • Sulphate free

    Cocoa-Butter-Deodorant-Recipe

    Cocoa Butter Deodorant Recipe

    Ingredients:

    1 teaspoon beeswax

    2 to 3 tablespoons baking soda

    8 tablespoons (4 ounces) organic cocoa butter

    2 tablespoons cold-pressed unfiltered coconut oil

     

    You will also need:

    A plastic fork

    A plastic deodorant tube, or a soap mold

    Small saucepan

     

    Directions:

    Put the beeswax into the pan, along with the coconut oil and cocoa butter.  Heat the pan over the lowest heat setting.

    Once the beeswax, cocoa butter and oil are completely melted, turn off heat and allow the mixture to cool.

    Stir the melted ingredients with the plastic fork.  Add the baking soda and stir very well.

    Allow the mixture to cool, stirring frequently to keep it well mixed.  You may set it in the refrigerator to speed the cooling process.  Be sure to keep stirring frequently.

    When mixture is fully cooled and somewhat stiff, but still creamey enough to spoon up, spoon the mixture into the container, pressing it in, and set it into the refrigerator to solidify.

    If you are using a soap mold instead, spoon the mixture into the soap mold, and set it in the refrigerator.

    Note:

    You may need to store your deodorant in the refrigerator in summer months.  If you want to make your finished product firmer, try adding a little more beeswax to the mix.