How to make your own cat repellent

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Content

Ingredients
Essential Oil Blend Repellent
Vinegar based repellent
Citrus Repellent
Citronella essential oil repellent
Garlic Pepper & Lemon Repellent
Steps
Method 1 of 5: Essential Oil Blend Repellent
Method 2 of 5: Vinegar Repellent
Method 3 of 5: Citrus Repellent
Method 4 of 5: Citronella Essential Oil Repellent
Method 5 of 5: Garlic, Pepper, and Lemon Repellent
Tips
Warnings
Additional articles

Whether you love cats or not, it's always frustrating when they stick their nose where they shouldn't. This can be garden beds, your favorite houseplants, or just a sofa in the hall. When an annoying cat sharpens its claws and defecates where it shouldn't, it can ruin important items very quickly. Fortunately, natural home repellents can be made easily to keep cats at bay. Strongly flavored ingredients such as essential oils and citrus peel, vinegar, citronella, pepper and garlic can scare cats away from those odors. Most repellents can be used both indoors and outdoors, but it is always wise to pre-test the resistance of textiles and other delicate items to the ingredients of the product so as not to accidentally stain.

Ingredients

Essential Oil Blend Repellent

2 drops of lemon essential oil
2 drops of wild orange essential oil
2 drops of lavender essential oil
Water

Vinegar based repellent

1 part vinegar
1 part liquid hand soap
1 part water

Citrus Repellent

475 ml of water
100 g zest of orange, lemon, lime and / or tangerine
2 teaspoons (10 ml) lemon juice
Lemon-scented dishwashing liquid

Citronella essential oil repellent

20 drops of citronella essential oil
180 ml water

Garlic Pepper & Lemon Repellent

1 teaspoon (2 g) black pepper
1 teaspoon (2 g) dry mustard
1 teaspoon (3 g) cinnamon
1 garlic clove, minced
3-4 drops of lemon essential oil
Water

Steps

Method 1 of 5: Essential Oil Blend Repellent

1 Add essential oils to a spray bottle. To make a repellent, you will need a 60 ml glass spray bottle. Put 2 drops of lemon essential oil, 2 drops of wild orange essential oil and 2 drops of lavender essential oil inside.
- Cats are more sensitive to odors than humans, so essential oils with strong aromas such as citrus and lavender can scare them away. Optionally, you can substitute lime, peppermint and / or eucalyptus for lemon, wild orange, and lavender.
- It is very important to use a glass repellent spray bottle, as essential oils disintegrate faster in plastic containers.
2 Fill a spray bottle with water and shake the mixture well. After adding essential oils to the spray bottle, fill it with water. Close the container tightly and shake vigorously to mix the water with the essential oils.
- Filtered or purified water is not required to prepare the solution. Plain tap water is fine.
3 Spray the compound in the required places. After mixing water with essential oils, spray the repellent in areas where the cat should not appear. In particular, the insect repellent will work well for your houseplants that you don't want your cat to approach.
- Be careful when applying repellent to carpets, curtains, and other textiles, as essential oils can stain them. Perform a preliminary test on an inconspicuous area of the fabric to make sure that the spray will not do any harm.

Method 2 of 5: Vinegar Repellent

1 Pour vinegar and water into a spray bottle. To prepare a repellent, you will need to take a spray bottle. Pour 1 part water and 1 part vinegar into it, then shake quickly to mix the liquids.
- Use white wine vinegar to make the remedy.
- You can take any water - tap, filtered, purified or bottled.
- The repellent spray can be glass or plastic.
2 Add liquid soap to the solution and shake well. When the vinegar and water are mixed, add another portion of liquid hand soap to the spray bottle. Shake the container vigorously to mix the soap and vinegar solution completely.
- Any liquid hand soap will work for the repellent, but a colorless soap is best.
3 Treat the necessary areas with repellent. Once the vinegar, water, and soap are completely mixed, spray the area where the cat should not walk with the repellent. The composition can be sprayed directly from the spray bottle or pre-moisten a napkin with it and wipe the desired areas.
- This repellent can be used to repel cats both indoors and outdoors.

Method 3 of 5: Citrus Repellent

1 Boil water. Pour 475 ml of water into a medium saucepan. Heat water to a boil over medium to high heat (this should take 5-7 minutes).
- Since you will be boiling the water, you can take it from the tap to prepare the repellent.
2 Add citrus zest to the water and boil the composition over low heat. Once the water boils, add 100 g of orange, lemon, lime and / or tangerine skins. Reduce heat to medium or low and simmer slowly for 20 minutes.
- Cats do not like citrus scent, so any combination of orange, lemon, lime and / or tangerine skins in a volume of 100 g will be an effective repellent.
- If the composition begins to boil actively, reduce the heat.
3 Allow the composition to cool, and then pour it into a spray bottle. After simmering for 20 minutes, remove the pot from the stove. Let the mixture cool completely, which should take about 30 minutes, and then pour it into a spray bottle.
- If large pieces of zest float in the prepared broth, it can be filtered and only then poured into a spray bottle without any problems.
4 Add lemon juice and dishwashing liquid to the mixture and shake well. After pouring into a spray bottle, add 2 teaspoons (10 ml) lemon juice and 1-2 ml lemon-scented dishwashing liquid. Shake the spray bottle vigorously to mix all the ingredients thoroughly.
- Lemon juice can be replaced with lime or orange juice, but the juice must be freshly squeezed.
- You can use any colorless dishwashing liquid, but it is best to use a lemon-scented liquid, as cats do not like the smell of citrus fruits.
5 Apply repellent to areas in your home. After the ingredients have been thoroughly mixed, spray the finished repellent where the cat should not appear. They can handle floors, walls and even furniture.
- As a precaution, it is best to test the repellent first on inconspicuous areas of textile-covered items to make sure its repellent ingredients will not damage the fabric.

Method 4 of 5: Citronella Essential Oil Repellent

1 Fill a spray bottle with water. To make this cat repellent, you need a glass spray bottle. Fill it almost to the top with water.
- To prepare the repellent, you can use any water - tap, filtered, or bottled.
- The use of a glass spray bottle ensures better preservation of the repellent, since essential oils in plastic containers break down faster.
2 Add citronella essential oil to the water and shake the spray bottle thoroughly. After filling a spray bottle with water, add 20 drops of citronella essential oil. Shake the container well to mix the oil and water.
- Similar to citrus and some other essential oils, citronella essential oil has a very strong scent that repels cats. This scent is also good at repelling insects.
3 Spray the repellent at home and outdoors. After thoroughly mixing citronella essential oil with water, spray the composition in all areas that you want to protect from the visits of cats. This repellent can be used both indoors and outdoors, but in the latter case, the treatment will need to be repeated after each rain.
- If you decide to treat an area where cats are used to going to the toilet with a repellent, you must first clean it thoroughly and only then use the repellent.

Method 5 of 5: Garlic, Pepper, and Lemon Repellent

1 Pour pepper, mustard, and cinnamon into a spray bottle. To make a repellent, you need a 60 ml glass spray bottle. Add 1 teaspoon (2 g) black pepper, 1 teaspoon (2 g) dry mustard, and 1 teaspoon (3 g) cinnamon.
- Black pepper can be substituted for cayenne if desired.
2 Add lemon essential oil and garlic there. Pour the spices into the spray bottle and add the chopped clove of garlic to them. Then add 3-4 drops of lemon essential oil and gently shake the contents of the spray bottle to combine the ingredients.
- A fresh clove of garlic can be substituted with ⅛ teaspoon (0.5 g) of garlic powder.
- Lemon essential oil can be substituted for lime, wild orange, or grapefruit oil.
3 Add water to the spray bottle and shake the composition thoroughly. Once all the spices and essential oils have been added to the spray bottle, fill the remaining volume with water. Shake the container vigorously to mix the ingredients completely.
- Tap water is great for making a repellent.
4 Treat the necessary areas of the outdoor area with a repellent. Spray the well-mixed compound outdoors in areas you want to protect from cats. In particular, it will be effective for protecting garden beds, bushes and other plants.
- This repellent can also be used to scare cats away from houseplants.

Tips

Scattering sliced citrus peels around the garden may be enough to scare cats away. The citrus scent will keep cats away without harming the plants and soil in your garden.
Coffee grounds can also ward off unwanted animals from your flower garden and are good for the soil and plants.
Any homemade repellent should be tested on inconspicuous areas of carpets and upholstery beforehand to check the color fastness of the textiles.To test, spray a small amount of home repellent on a soft white cloth, then place the cloth on the cloth. If the dye from the fabric starts to transfer to the white tissue, do not use this repellent on this item.

Warnings

Never spray the cat itself with a repellent. Certain ingredients, such as citrus essential oils and black pepper, can be dangerous to your cat. Only spray areas where the cat should not appear.