While neem oil sounds like something concocted in a laboratory, in fact it’s extracted from the Indian neem tree. This potent-smelling oil works well as an organic insecticide and fungicide, and it’s also finding uses in household soaps as a bactericide.

Neem also supposedly has medicinal properties.

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