Not all products available for kids are safe to use. There are some brands that use strong chemicals just to make the insects go away. If your primary concern is the safety of your kids using inexpensive ingredients, then you should try making a homemade insect repellent for your babies.
A natural mosquito repellent is very easy to do. You just have to gather herbs like bay leaves, pennyroyal, rosemary, and of course, the eucalyptus. It does not matter whether you would like to use fresh herbs or the dried ones.
By using a double boiler, put these herbs at the bottom part of the pan. Then pour in enough baby oil or a vegetable oil to submerge all the herbs you just placed. At the top container place enough oil as well. See to it that the cover fits tightly on the double boiler. Put it in a low fire and wait for at least an hour or two. You just have to open the lid from time to time to make sure that you are not overheating the oil.
As soon as you heated the oil and the herbs, use cheesecloth to strain the oil and the other particles of the herbs. You can use a strainer as long as it has fine holes. Pour all the content of the pan at the strainer or cheesecloth and set it aside.
On a separate bowl, press the remaining oil so you can get the remaining extracts from the herbs. If you want to use the more concentrated homemade insect repellent then choose the first pressing. More often than not, although it can be still effective, the second pressing has more sediments and water than the first one.
If you happen to have eucalyptus oil, you can put a couple of drops in the mixture to give your natural mosquito repellent a different scent.
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