Making Natural Insect Repellent from Beautyberry - Beautyberry Juice

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Making Natural Insect Repellent from Beautyberry | Beautyberry Juice. I noticed that there was a lot of American Beauty Berry (Callicarpa americana) growing around here and did some research to see if it is used for anything. Come to find out, not only is it edible, but you can extract the oils from the leaves to make an insect repellant, natural bug spray. 

0:00 Intro

0:17 Update

1:41 American Beautyberry

2:19 Gathering Beautyberry

3:32 When to Harvest Beautyberry

4:09 Natural Insect Repellent

5:19 Beautyberry Juice

8:02 Outro

 

my two cents:

oddly enough, California forbids growing Beautyberry (I guess not that odd since they allow GMO mosquitoes) but you can buy the cuttings and with a rooting powder, you can plant the cuttings and grow them into your own plant