What are the benefits of putting a drop of essential oil on onions?

Essential oils are quite familiar to us. They have many health benefits such as treating headaches, dizziness, or helping to increase resistance to colds. However, with homemade essential oils made from available ingredients, we can easily repel mosquitoes and insects from the house.

Essential oils include many natural essential oils such as eucalyptus, eucalyptus, mint... According to experts, eucalyptus leaves contain citriodiol - a substance commonly used to produce mosquito repellent products. Peppermint essential oil contains a lot of menthol, which not only has anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and skin-soothing effects, but also keeps mosquitoes away.

Meanwhile, onions are the nemesis of cockroaches. If you put an onion in your kitchen, cockroaches will not dare to come near.

Therefore, this combination is a very safe way to repel insects. Put a drop of essential oil on onions, mosquitoes and insects will stay away from your house.

How to do it:

How to make an insect repellent bag with essential oil and onions is very simple. You take an onion, peel it, cut it into thin slices, then take a paper mask, cut one side to form a bag and then stuff the onion into the middle layer of the mask.

Next, you drop a few drops of essential oil on the paper mask and the onion slices, then tie a knot, so you have a very compact homemade mosquito and insect repellent bag.

You hang it at the head of the bed, window, the spicy and pungent smell of onions combined with the essential oil in the essential oil will spread throughout the room, making mosquitoes and insects not dare to come to your bedroom.

In addition to repelling mosquitoes and insects, onions also help kill bacteria, clean the air, and help you sleep well, so hanging this homemade bag at the head of the bed is also good for sleep.

You can also hang this bag in the kitchen to repel cockroaches very effectively.

After about 4-5 days of use, the onion will gradually wither. At this time, you can replace it with a new bag of onion and essential oil to continue repelling cockroaches and mosquitoes in the house.