Ever heard of this concoction for fly spray?

[RnR]

I used to make my own fly spray (the typical baby oil, citronella, etc) but I've lately I've just stopped fly spraying because my horse isn't bothered and we don't really have a ton of flies(plus I'm skeptical that they work well enough to go through a bottle a week!). But, a girl at the barn was spraying her horse down the other day, and I go, "What smells like an egg roll?"

I realized it was her mixture of stuff. She said she found the recipe online, but when she told me what it was I was a little shocked and told her I am pretty sure I have never heard of that in my life.

It is dish soap, vinegar, and water. Now don't ask me why I think it smells like an egg roll, but it does. That's besides the case though. I told her I don't know if it is really "healthy" to be spraying dish soap on his coat/skin and not rinsing it immediately as a form of fly spray.

Have you ever heard of it? Is it safe? Does it even work?

I will never use it, because like I said, I don't use fly spray anyway, but this is mainly from a curiosity stand point.

[pAin't_Misbehavin']

I've read that people sometimes put a few drops of dish soap into their homemade fly spray, as a way to disperse the oils into the solution. A whole lot of dish soap would probably dry the skin and coat, but a few drops shouldn't hurt.

I've also read of people using vinegar, especially apple cider vinegar, but I don't know that it works all that well. I tried it once and it seemed to me to attract flies!:eek:

I don't know what purpose adding dish soap to vinegar would serve, though.

I once tried adding baby oil to my homemade mixture, and my paint horse got sunburned!:(

[Blacktree]

A friend of mine uses some kind of natural flyspray mixed with listerine (that she buys in bulk at Costco) because her mare is allergic to most regular flysprays. I didn't think it would work, but it really does! It leaves a bit of a film on them, though.

[Naro29]

nope never heard of it but i did use skin so soft from avon with a few other things and it works , but like your friends horse mine is allergic to alot too, but what seems to work is to use a diiferent flyspray as much as possible, i use trigger and it works really well zonk it and dura gaurd the orange bottle work well too. also try either organic or natural stuff

[Brockstables]

My horse gets hives from most flysprays. I am using white vinegar, skin-so-soft and listerine on him and it works fairly well. A vet-tech friend gave me the recipe. No hives! Not too many flies, either.

[TheJenners]

The soap is probably to add "stickability" to the other stuff, since water will evaporate and the vinegar will as well, to an extent.

[cllane1]

I use RepelX concentrate, which I mix with white vinegar instead of water. Don't know if it helps any more than anything else, but it doesn't hurt! I would think AC vinegar would attract flies, as it's sweeter.

[Puddin Pie]

I used to use the Vinegar, water dawnn mixture, I don't remember that it worked better or worse than others. My barn Manager hates the smell of vinegar, so I haven't used it in years.

[boosma47]

I mix RepelX, apple cider vinegar, SkinsoSoft and water, which my old trainer used. It seems to work fine, but doesn't last a full 24 hours. And, I love the smell!!