Colin Purrington on Nostr: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added CATNIP OIL and OIL OF CITRONELLA ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added CATNIP OIL and OIL OF CITRONELLA to its list of *registered*, skin-applied chemicals that repel mosquitoes, joining DEET, IR 3535, PMD (oil of lemon eucalyptus), picaridin, and 2-undecanone. Officially, I don't think catnip is registered for use against ticks but there's plenty of web chatter that it works. #mosquitoes #repellent #ticks #epa #nature https://www.epa.gov/insect-repellents/skin-applied-repellent-ingredients