there is nothing that you can get or spray that will actually repel or make a bedbug decide to stay away from you. you will be far more sucessful in evading bites however if you understand their weakness. bedbugs can not climb slippery surfaces and heat will kill them. you can take advantage of this by applying a lubricant to the legs of your bed or any surface they might climb to get into your bed. also for this to be effective you will have to make sure that there are no bugs currently in your bed. take your pillows blankets bed linins and anything else that is in your bed and dry them on high heat for 45 min or more. then take apart your bed and use a hot steam gun on every crack crevis anywhere you see black dots or clusters of dots (those are bedbug eggs) deep steam every square inch of your mattress and box spring and make sure you hit the crevices and seams real good. then buy a cover that is rated for bed bugs and seal your mattress in that cover to make sure anything that you might of missed can not get out to bite you. dry your bed linings blankets sheets and pillows every day. alochol can kill bed bugs on contact however it will not kill eggs. ultimately you want to eliminate the bed bugs all together it's a considerable amount of work to do this. if you have a place you can stay for at least 3 weeks you can use vapor strips to kill them. close your windows and seal your vents with plastic open anything that is sealed (plastic totes bags of clothes anything that isin't food in your kitchen). the vapor needs to be able to reach everything. then you want to buy vapor strips called nuvua strips that emit a vapor that fills the house and is toxic to bed bugs. open the strips and distribute them through the rooms in your house (make sure you buy enough for adaquate coverage). make sure your heating or air is turned off as well. anything you take with you to the place your staying must be dried in a dryer for 45 min on high heat so you don't contaminate the new place. other objects that you bring should be kept to a minimum as well. dishes or anything you know for sure is bug free is fine to take with you. when you come back 3 weeks later (3 weeks is to make sure any eggs hatch and are killed by the vapor). open the house to let it air out unseal and turn on your air and you should be bug free. however you will want to at this point take all of your laundry to a laundry mat and at least dry everything for good effect. i dealt with bedbugs for a year and a half and they do require drastic measures to eliminate. you won't be able to just spray something and be done with it. if you don't have a place to stay for 3 weeks you can consult an exterminator. we had to go this option. we had to put all of our belongings in a bedroom the exterminator put the vapor strips in that room and sealed it up with plastic to keep the vapor in. then every week for a month he would come a visit with and spray a chemical all over the furniture and the floors that killed anything that was living there. we had to wash and dry all of our laundry put a cover on our mattress and dry our blankets pillows and bed linings every night. also he put a powder called dichatomaus earth (i may of misspelled that) on all the cracks and corners of our house. this powder actually cuts the shell of the bedbug on contact and they will die. at the end of the month of treatments we were able to open the sealed off room and finally return our lives to normal. total cost was about 800. 00 with the exterminator. if we had went with the strip method it would of been closer to 400 or so. i hope this helps and i wish you the best of luck.
are there any repellants for bedbugs?