The first time someone tells you their mosquito coil is made from cow dung, there's a pause. Then a question — usually the same one. So let's answer it.
Cow dung has been dried and burned across rural India for generations. Not as a novelty, and not as a last resort: as everyday infrastructure. It is cheap, endlessly renewable, and it smoulders slow and low — which happens to be exactly what you want from something meant to smoke gently on a veranda for an hour after sunset.
An ingredient older than the coil
Strip away the reaction and cow dung is mostly digested plant fibre. Burn it and you get a mild, earthy smoke — the kind insects would rather steer around. On its own it takes the edge off. Blended with the right botanical oils, it becomes a genuine coil: slow-burning, low-smoke, and effective, with no lab-made pyrethroid anywhere near it.
So why does it work
No magic, no marketing. Mosquitoes navigate by scent — the carbon dioxide and warmth that say dinner. Fill the air with something they cannot read, carried on a slow and even smoke, and your patio stops being an easy target. Eucalyptus, citronella and clove do the talking. The dung base just carries the conversation, quietly, for about an hour.
Nature figured this out long before we did. We just wrote it down and put it in a box.
What isn't in it
- No d-Allethrin or other pyrethroids.
- No DEET.
- No petroleum-based binders.
Not stated as a warning. Stated as a fact — because none of it was ever necessary to make a coil that works.
MooPoo Repel, specifically
Our MooPoo Repel coils use a cow-dung base and a slow-burning botanical blend — citronella, eucalyptus, lemongrass, clove and rosemary. Ten coils to a box, five doubles, roughly an hour each. Light one at dusk, leave it to smoulder, and get on with the evening. Outdoor use only, naturally.