WEN Tea Tree Oil/natural mosquito repellant

x Hedge · ‎08-18-2016

In about 2015 I read a WEN product review in which the writer claimed WEN Tea Tree oil worked well as a personal bug repellant. Have you ever heard that or used it for that?

I always kept it in the back of my mind, and when Chaz offered oil in the Sept 2016 TSV I ordered Tea Tree intending to test it out in summer.

Well, it's summer. We've had a good deal of rain and there are mosquitoes, flies, gnats, no-seeums galore!

Tonight I was slapping at them nonstop for over an hour.

I went in, applied TT oil to exposed skin and surface of hair, the difference is incredible!

I can sit outside comfortably now.

2 bottles in the cupboard and a 3rd on the way. Gotta love TSVs on auto-delivery! Id sure rather have tea tree & eucalyptus on my skin than something lab created.

SurferWife · ‎12-12-2010

Yes, indeed @x Hedge, it does work to repel skeeters! I spray the TT RTM on my puppy if we are going to the beach at sundown and he doesn't have to fight off anything. Oh, & I use it too!

Time is just a drop in the bucket compared to eternity. It isn’t how long you live that matters; it is how well you are prepared to die. ~~Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr.

butterfly123 · ‎06-27-2013

Tea tree oil pads work wonders for mosquitoes and other bug bites.

x Hedge · ‎08-18-2016

Excellent @SurferWife!

That settles it!

Now I must have Tea Tree RTM.

Oh, woe!

Will there never be an end to my WEN-ish needyness?

AmericanBulldogMom · ‎09-25-2016

I too use TT (both the oil and RTM) on myself and Rip (my dog) to keep the flying pests away. Love it!!

CamilleP · ‎03-09-2010

Hedge, what I do is spray all over with RTM, then while the mist is still wet on my skin, run a fine line of the oil down my arms. Then I spread the oil out with the moisture of the RTM. It makes the oil go further, since it's not a cheap product. I mist my hair and face, as well as my clothes, but I don't apply oil there, just my arms where the skin is bare. I find the mosquitoes don't try to bite through my denim jeans, but they will go through a t-shirt, so I mist my shirt to keep them off me as much as possible. Only my bare skin is attractive enough to the little winged vampires enough to need the oil, thankfully.

x Hedge · ‎08-18-2016

Thanks@CamilleP This gets better and better!

Use TT RTM as a spreader for the oil. Fantastic!

Wonder if TT mousse would do instead of RTM in a pinch?

CamilleP · ‎03-09-2010

I'm sure that the mousse would work just as well, Hedge. It might work better, since it's thicker than the mist. Give it a shot and tell us how it does, please.