# Home made insecticides

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-made-insecticides/848264>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-made-insecticides/848264 "2020-02-20T22:22:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-made-insecticides/848264/1 "2020-02-20T22:22:54Z")

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I have a shit ton of plants. A few months ago I brought home a rare plant, which in my excitement to acquire I apparently didn’t inspect it closely enough. Now all god’s chillins got spider mites.

Looking for home remedies I find basically two different recipes:

–one includes, among other ingredients, vinegar and baking soda  
–the other includes soap and oil

Don’t those pairs of ingredients cancel each other out?