{"id":7314,"date":"2025-09-06T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:13:52","slug":"bug-repellent-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/bug-repellent-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug Repellent Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\"\"* 1\/4 cup pennyroyal-infused grapeseed oil
\n* 1\/4 cup mineral oil
\n* 1 tspn\u00a0coconut oil<\/a>
\n* 2 Tbsp beeswax
\n* 1\/8 tspn borax powder
\n* 1\/4 cup distilled water
\n* 5 drops lemongrass
\n* 3 drops citronella
\n* 20 drops lavender
\n* 10 drops rosemary
\n* 10 drops eucalyptus
\n* 10 drops pine needle
\n* 20 drops cedarwood<\/p>\n

Melt together pennyroyal-infused oil, beeswax and\u00a0coconut oil<\/a>. While wax is melting, put distilled water and borax in a pint jelly jar, and microwave for less than a minute, to dissolve borax.<\/p>\n

When beeswax is melted, pour oil\/wax mixture into borax\/water mixture, and stir to blend. Add all the EO\u2019s, then put the lid on the jelly jar and SHAKE vigorously. Shake, then check, until mixture starts to become a cream (it wont take long).<\/p>\n

Makes 1 pint.<\/p>\n

Get your herbs and oils at a place you can trust!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starwest Botanicals<\/a>\u00a0not only utilizes their own milling and packaging operations for all organic herbs and bulk spices, they also conduct quality control testing on each and every product in their own laboratory. With attention like that, you can be sure you will receive only the highest-quality organic herbs, dried herbs, organic spices, therapeutic essential oils and all natural products when you place an order with\u00a0Starwest Botanicals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* 1\/4 cup pennyroyal-infused grapeseed oil * 1\/4 cup mineral oil * 1 tspn\u00a0coconut oil * 2 Tbsp beeswax * 1\/8 tspn borax powder * 1\/4 cup distilled water * 5 drops lemongrass * 3 drops citronella * 20 drops lavender * 10 drops rosemary * 10 drops eucalyptus * 10 drops pine needle * […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-pests-insects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.webcoreweb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}