{"id":58743,"date":"2025-03-12T14:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58743"},"modified":"2025-03-12T14:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:26:33","slug":"essential-oils-proven-to-send-mosquitoes-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58743","title":{"rendered":"Essential Oils Proven to Send Mosquitoes Packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to find safe and ecofriendly plant-based insect repellents, researchers tested 23 essential oils for their mosquito-repelling properties, specifically against Aedes Aegypti. Three essential oils outperformed the rest: litsea, geranium and rosewood oils.<\/p>\n<p>In this particular study, the top 10 mosquito-repelling essential oils were identified as the following, listed in order of highest effectiveness:<br \/>\nLitsea<br \/>\nRosewood<br \/>\nGeranium<br \/>\nLemongrass<br \/>\nLemon scented Camphor<br \/>\nCitronella<br \/>\nGalbanum<br \/>\nDill<br \/>\nCinnamon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/essential-oils-proven-send-mosquitoes-packing\">https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/essential-oils-proven-send-mosquitoes-packing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to find safe and ecofriendly plant-based insect repellents, researchers tested 23 essential oils for their mosquito-repelling properties, specifically against Aedes Aegypti. Three essential oils outperformed the rest: litsea, geranium and rosewood oils. In this particular study, the top 10 mosquito-repelling essential oils were identified as the following, listed in order of highest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Essential Oils Proven to Send Mosquitoes Packing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58744,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58743\/revisions\/58744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}