Are you wishing to avoid ticks, transmitters of Lyme disease (as well as other serious diseases)?
I am a tick magnet: you want to find a tick in a three mile radius, send me into your yard, and I will have it crawling on me in a very short amount of time.
So, tick repellents and treatments are very important to me.
The following is promoted by Lady Barbara over at (link)
Here is her remedy:
Ticks – guaranteed to work – they RUN! Rose geranium essential oil (“geranium”)
1 tsp Geranium – source Mountain Rose Herbs (1 oz gives six bottles of spray)
1 tsp rubbing alcohol
filtered water
Place in a spray bottle and apply to legs, etc. before going into woods/grassy areas.
(for full recipe, visit her post at LadyBarbara.net)