Fly Spray Recipes

Editor's note: Whenever a fly spray recipe calls for citronella, you should use 100 percent pure citronella oil. You should not use citronella oil that is sold for an outdoor torch. That type of oil is petroleum based with a citronella smell. You can buy pure citronella oil at Cedar Vale online. Search the net. I am sure there are other places that sell pure citronella oil.

I have used this mix for years, and it works great. Laurie LaSalle, Rockin' Tree Ranch

Fly Repellent

2 cups white vinegar
1 cup Avon Skin So Soft (Bath oil)
1 cup water
1 tablespoon eucalyptus oil

Fly Control

An easy do it yourself fly spray that is relatively inexpensive, and I'm
told it really works! This spray attracts dust. So don't use it before
a show.

500m. (2 cups) light mineral oil
125ml (1/2 cup) lemon juice
10ml (2 tsp.) citronella oil
10ml eucalyptus oil
10ml lemon dish detergent
optional 125ml glycerin
Mix in a spray bottle and spray away!

Horse Insect Repellent Mix

1 oz. Citronella Oil
2 oz. Skin-So-Soft or Coat-So-Soft
1 Cup Cider Vinegar
1 cup Water

Mix in a 20 oz. spray bottle.

Internal Fly Repellant

If your horse is allergic to fly bites, try 1/4 cup of apple cider
vinegar on their grain once a day. This raises the blood acid level
just enough to bother the flies, but it is completely healthy for the
horse. It takes about one week to start seeing the effects. Several
old timers have told me that they always put vinegar in their horse's
drinking water during the summer to repel flies and mosquitoes.

Easy Fly Spray

You can mix seven parts water with one part citronella as a fly spray. It's not oily either. Mix it four parts water to one part citronella during the worst of the fly season.

You can take a bottle and fill it with white vinegar and two tablespoons of dish soap. Add water if you wish to dilute it a little. Shake and spray it on for a nice and very cheap fly spray. Debbi Delva

A golf course near my home passes out Bounce fabric softener sheets to the golfers to repel insects. Next time you go riding tie one to your Horse's headstall and stick one in your back pocket. It works better than ANY fly spray I've ever tried. The flies won't even fly around you. Susan Cafouras

I was given this recipe and it does work!!!!

15 oz water
5 oz commercial fly spray ( any brand)
5 oz vinegar
2 oz vegetable oil
2 oz green Dawn dish soap

Mix and use. All natural and will not harm coat.
The Hise Family

Visit Stony Mountain Botanicals where you will find recipes for herbal insect repellents!

One Ingredient Fly Spray

Pour six caps full of Skin-So-Soft in a 20 ounce spray bottle, and fill the rest with water. Shake and spray. Sien Creytens

Fly relief

If anyone has problems with flies in the barn, try filling a quart jar with this mixture.

3 cups of water
¼ (one quarter) cup sugar
¼ (one quarter) cup white vinegar

Mix, punch holes in the lid, and set it where needed. It works great. Toni Auen

For cheap fly repellent, mix about 1 1/2 cups of plain white vinegar into about every 75 gallons of water in your horse's water tub. If you use this it in the water about a week before flies start biting, it will have circulated in your horse and it helps keep flies from biting. -Lindsey