Cedar wood oil has been used to neutralize and repel a wide variety insect activity for hundreds of years. Remember when your great grandparents would store important things in a cedar chest or cedar closet? Scent driven bugs, which includes the head louse, rely on the compound octopamine for normal bodily functions like breathing, metabolism, reproduction, and movement. Cedar oil blocks their octopamine receptors, and triggers interference with breathing. Cedar invokes irri