With the advent of summer, mosquitoes began to wreak havoc, how healthy mosquito repellent has become a matter of public concern, in addition to the use of mosquito coils, eau de toilette, electric mosquito beat and other traditional mosquito repellent tools, recently, mint mosquito repellent began to be sought after by everyone. So, mint can really repel mosquitoes? In fact, the mint really can repel mosquitoes.

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Once someone did such an experiment, in a dark outdoor corner of the wall were placed in two mosquito lamps, one next to a large number of mint, one nothing, after two hours, no mint placed next to the lamps have a large number of mosquito corpses, and put the mint lamps next to the mosquito corpse is relatively small. This shows that mint does have a certain mosquito repellent effect. That's because, mint contains a kind of 8-acetyl dill aikenone substance, has the effect of mosquito repellent. In daily life, you can wash the mint leaves into the pot with a small amount of water and then cooled in a bottle, or rub the mint leaves, squeeze out the juice applied to the body, can play a mosquito repellent effect.

But it should be noted that 8-acetyl dill aikenone this substance by the space limitations of the larger, if only one or two pots indoors, the effect of mosquito repellent will not be too obvious.