[Bellflower]

For ticks 4oz of water, ten drops of rose oil, a drop of vodka to help it mix.

Interesting addition of the vodka.

Someone else said to use rose geranium oil and lavender oil. I wonder if mixing together rose oil with rose geranium oil and lavender oil would work better than one or two oils, or if the three would be too much and sort of cancel each other out. I love the outdoors and am willing to go for the full monty if that would work better.

[hope]

I don't think long at all. I have heard ticks are carriers of Lyme, but not all ticks... so it's kind of like Russian Roulette.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I make this stuff so I have picked up a few tricks.

You can add the lavender (five drops) but not the rose geranium. It does weird things to the rose.

It is important that you do not use fragrance oils, you need to only use essential oils. They are more pricey but they work. The fragrance oils are generally synthetic scents and they don't work for some reason.