Tar soap and birch tar - an absolutely natural remedy

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Wood tar is a product of dry distillation of the bark (decomposition when heated without air access). Birch, pine, beech and juniper tar are most commonly used. An essential oil is also isolated from birch tar, which has an effective antiseptic property and accelerates skin regeneration.

Natural birch tar makes up about 10 percent in tar soap. In appearance, it is very similar to the most common household. Tar soap is an excellent health care product for the skin. By the way, very budgetary.

The first reaction of many people to tar soap is as follows: “It's from lice! Why do I need it ?! Yes, it has an insecticidal effect, but this is far from its main application.

Properties of tar soap

A penny will help! This truly magical bar of absolutely natural soap (it contains neither dyes, nor preservatives, nor even perfumery fragrances) has long been known for its medicinal properties, therefore it is quite successfully used in cosmetology and is even "prescribed" by doctors as a means for the treatment and prevention of some diseases.

For facial skin

If you are already tired of treating inflammation and removing pimples from the skin of your face, be sure to try to include tar soap in your treatment. This proven remedy has excellent drying and healing properties. In addition, tar soap does not cause allergic reactions at all, so you can not be afraid of the consequences of its use.

Dandruff

This soap promotes the healing of small cracks in the scalp. It is very effective in getting rid of dandruff due to its high content of unique natural ingredients. In addition, tar soap is an excellent prophylactic remedy for hair loss. To use, you need to wet the hair well, apply tar soap to the roots, and then lather along the entire length of the hair. Be sure to wash off the soap after a couple of minutes. After using such a product, apply a balm or a nourishing mask. After two weeks of regular use, the dandruff will disappear.

Skin diseases

Dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, seborrhea and many other diseases will be of no concern to you! Tar soap perfectly heals the skin and promotes rapid cell regeneration. Thanks to tar soap, blood flow to the skin increases.

Intimate hygiene

Tar soap protects against various infections, viruses, fungi. It can also become a real lifesaver in the treatment of thrush.

When treating wounds

The tar soap contains only 10% of the tar, and the remaining 90% is ordinary soap. It contains derivatives of alkali and phenol, the combination of which kills bacteria, viruses and fungi. Because of this, soap is actively used to treat wounds, acne and other skin lesions. It prevents the activity of disease-causing agents, contamination and inflammation.

Sweat proof

In summer, tar soap can be used to treat armpits and legs, and this remedy works better than the most advertised deodorants. Not only eliminating odor, but also significantly reducing sweat production in general. And, despite the unpleasant odor from the bar of soap, the scent of tar from the body is easily washed off, and it neutralizes other amber for a long time.

Fight against parasites

Of course, getting rid of lice in this way will take a little longer. But the soap is completely natural and has no serious side effects. It can even be used to treat children!

From fungus on the feet

For treatment and prevention, more often my legs are this proven remedy. Make masks periodically, leaving the lather for 5-15 minutes at the site of the lesion.

However, tar soap has one very unpleasant, in my opinion, effect - its smell. From the body and hands, the smell of tar soap disappears by itself and rather quickly. But, unfortunately, it is almost impossible to completely remove the smell from the hair after using products containing tar.

However, odor softening can be achieved by rinsing your hair with water diluted with vinegar or adding lemon juice to the rinse water. You can also use any hair conditioner.

And it is better to use soap or products containing tar at a time when you do not have to worry about the remaining smell.

We use tar in the garden and vegetable garden

The desire of people to eat not just those grown on their own land, but also environmentally friendly fruits and vegetables, led to the fact that chemical preparations began to disappear from the kits of gardeners, and natural preparations began to appear, and often very unexpected ones. So the hero of our today's article - birch tar - is very effective in the garden and vegetable garden, although few know about it.

Tar repels pests with its pungent odor. In scientific language, it has repellent (repelling insects), but not insecticidal (insect-killing) abilities. If you read somewhere that tar "kills insects" - do not believe it. Tar does not kill anyone, it just stinks, so insects will not want to lay eggs on fetid plants, or they will leave it home.

There is one more problem: the gardeners themselves came up with the idea of using tar from pests in the garden. You will not find any reliable instructions on how to process potatoes, or strawberries, or trees with tar from insects, and there is no one to ask them. Someone pours 100 ml on a three-meter garden bed, someone adds two tablespoons of tar per liter of water for spraying, and someone claims that 1 spoon is enough for a bucket. That is, everything is subjective, everything is based on personal experience. Therefore, you will have to experiment a little and question all the information about the use of tar in gardening. By the way, tar is used not only to scare away pests from plants, but also from livestock (they coat cows with it).

And the last nuance. Birch tar in the garden from pests should almost always be bred in water. However, it does not dissolve in water, but forms a film on the surface of the water. Spraying with such an emulsion is inconvenient and ineffective, therefore, before mixing the tar with water, it is separately mixed with laundry soap (on a tablespoon of tar - 40-50 grams of soap). In addition, the soap makes the solution stick to the leaves and stems of the plant. You don't need to dissolve the tar with soap, but in this case, use a broom for processing or make holes in the lid of a plastic bottle for watering. A conventional spray bottle will quickly become clogged with oily tar.

Birch tar from pests on different types of garden and horticultural crops

Tar processing of potatoes

Against the Colorado potato beetle: add a tablespoon of tar to a bucket of water and spray the potato seedlings.

Treatment of potatoes with tar before planting: the potatoes are dipped in a container with the aforementioned tar solution. If possible, water the holes / grooves with the same solution before planting the tubers in order to protect them from the wireworm.

Tar processing of strawberries

Strawberry pests will not settle on the plant if, before the buds appear, they are treated with a solution of tar with a concentration of 20 g per bucket of water.

Processing of onions and garlic with tar

The onion fly does not tolerate the smell of tar, therefore, even before planting, the sets are soaked for a couple of hours in a tar solution (10 g per liter of water). Two or three times (with 10-15-day intervals) spraying and watering with a solution of tar (20 g per bucket of water) will help to expel the onion fly from the garden bed during the egg flies.

Tar processing of cabbage

Cabbage fly, cabbage butterflies and cruciferous fleas will not annoy cruciferous plants if the plants, starting from the seedling stage, are watered several times with a solution of tar with a concentration of 10 g per bucket of water.

Tar processing of carrots and beets

Treatment with tar from pests of carrots and beets - carrot flies, leaf beetles, wireworms, beet aphids, flies and fleas - is carried out with the same emulsion: per bucket of water - 10 g.

Processing of berry bushes with tar

Berry bushes are treated with tar from pests before and after flowering. The solution helps to get rid of currant and gooseberry sawflies, aphids, fireflies, raspberry-strawberry weevils, spider mites. Concentration - for a bucket of water 2 tbsp. l. You can also hang small open bottles filled with tar to repel pests.

Processing of trees with birch tar

Plum and apple moth, gray pear weevil, cherry sawfly, sea buckthorn fly, hawthorn, bird cherry weevil, aphids on trees do not like tar. The processing of the garden with tar is carried out during the blooming of young leaves at the rate of 1 tbsp. l. on a bucket of water. As with shrubs, you can hang tar containers on trees.

Tar in gardening and horticulture: how else can you use it?

- to make tar mulch. To do this, the sawdust is saturated with the prepared solution (10 g of tar per bucket of water). Mulch can be laid out on tree-trunk circles, under bushes, on cabbage, carrot, strawberry and other beds - pests will bypass them.

- prepare a coating for trees that will protect them from rodents in winter. They take half a bucket of mullein and clay, add 1 kg of lime and 40-50 grams of tar, add water to the state of gruel and coat the tree trunks.

- the smell of tar is strong and unpleasant, but it disappears very quickly (for the human scent). But if you, nevertheless, do not want your plants to come into direct contact with the tar, you can coat them with long rags-belts and tie them on pegs stuck in the ground around the plantings.

Thus, tar in the garden and vegetable garden is the first assistant. Like ammonia, it effectively repels pests, and the treatment of plants with tar is an absolutely ecological measure. By the way, instead of tar, you can take tar soap - it also copes well with the role of a repellent (10-20 g of tar can be replaced with 30-50 grams of tar soap).