Best Bug repellant out there.....Who makes it?

[Produce Guy]

Ding-Dong ,Avon's calling,That's right Avon's Skin-so-Soft works really good for keeping bugs off.

 

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[Buck Rabbit]

I carry a bottle of sulphur powder with me and all you have to do is dust around your ankles and no ticks or chiggers!!

 

[KYBuzzBox]

I like the old 100% Deet bug juice we used in Vietnam. However, that is getting hard to come by these days. I now use the 3M ultrathon the army issues. Just as good but doesn't melt plastic or discolor your clothes. I got mine at the Bass Pro shop website (cream or areosol - both work). I live in Kentucky, I know about those pesky little #$%^&!! ticks & chiggers! This stuff works.

Keep Hunting
KYBuzzBox

 

[RandyNorthridgeCa]

I mostly park detect and the insects in the summer months are a pain. Don't know if anyone has used this before but it works for me, plus it's a sunsceen too. I buy mine at REI.

I've tried that Avon lotion before and think the insects out here like it

Repel Sun & Bug Stuff® Lotion
A combination SPF 15 sun block and 20% DEET insect repellent non-greasy odorless lotion in a convenient flip-top bottle. This combination product provides total sun protection while protecting against mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, gnats, fleas, and biting flies.

 

[ZINCLID]

Yep, I read the post and I'll relate a little story: My guitar-picking buddy and I went to a nature reserve the other day just sight seeing and absolutely almost got torn apart by some kind of gnats down there in Mississippi...those bugs were out for pure blood, man! I had forgotten to bring my can of Backwoods Cutter-23% Deet and remembered my dad had a can of Skin-So-Soft in trunk of the car which he kept there for use while in woods digging crapemyrtles and such. Anyhow, I grabbed that spray and we took tuns spraying each other with that spray and those pests didn't bite us for 30 minutes or so...then we had to reapply the spray. Skin-So-Soft ain't a longterm fix on keeping the small pests away...but works pretty well for around 30 minutes or so if liberally applied. And it kinda smells alright to me...Deet stinks like he** but does a lot better job at keeping the small critters at bay. Service branches used to use bottles of cutter lotion- I was issued a small bottle at boot camp on Paris Island, S.C. around November of 1982. Dang sand fleas would eat you up and it was winter time-ha! I still remember the Drill Instructor saying A---TACK! And that's when we could briefly scratch the bites-then right back to attention-ha!

 

[bigwater]

Okay, you're going to laugh at me and probably look down your nose at me... but... Bourbon. Get smashed on bourbon the night before you go hunting. Drink so much that it starts oozing out of your pores. Wake up and take a couple of shots of the hair of the dog that bit you, and head out. You won't be touched by ANY bug all day.

 

[kshollywood]

Get OFF 100% DEET in the camping section at Wal-Mart, or Thermacell in the hunting isle, the thermacell isn't a spray but a unit you clip on to you or a backpack and it keeps the skeeters away. Also OFF makes a unit like the Thermacell but cheaper than the Thermacell.

 

[maui]

sounds like alot of good idea's everbody has.
thanks much, take care and don't let those bugs chew you up.
ron

 

[Smudge]

You know, back in my scouting days I spent a summer at this swamp camp in Florida.

Turns out their primary water source was sulphur water and it stunk like rotten eggs. They mixed it with cool-aid and after awhile you got used to the smell and just drank it.

Well, after a few days I notice the mosquitoes and other pests weren't bothering me anymore and the camp counsels said it was because of the drink. They called it "Bug Juice". Seems the sulphur built up in your system after a few days and bugs just didn't like the way you'd taste anymore.

Gotta admit, it worked!

 

[Zephyr]

I've been experimenting by wiping tonic water (with quinine) onto my exposed skin (neck, arms, ears, etc.) Seems to keep the mosquitoes off, and doesn't make a mess. Don't know (yet) if it will keep swarms away, though....

 

[cesarnono13]

I've found that NOTHING works better than this. doesnt just keep them away, theyre DEAD if they even touch you. 2 coats works for me whenever I go out. plus they sell em almost everywhere.

 

[BloodyBelle]

Re: Bluing--it's still around the laundry aisles. Got a bottle here; brand "Bluette."

I half remember a story: A native of somewhere climbing naked up into a tree filled with wasp or bee hives. What he was after, I don't recall, but he was nonplussed and descended without a sting. The awestruck gringos were given this explanation: The critters are repelled by the odor of an unbathed human.

 

[Bum Luck]

Ding-Dong ,Avon's calling,That's right Avon's Skin-so-Soft works really good for keeping bugs off.

Not for me, nor in tests I've read. Doesn't work at all.

I like Permanone since I don't like DEET on my skin, or even the smell of it.

It actually kills the little buggers, not just repels them.

I deal with bugs all the time and that's what I use. Occasionally, I will DEET my face as well.

 

[BloodyBelle]

I've found that NOTHING works better than this. doesnt just keep them away, theyre DEAD if they even touch you. 2 coats works for me whenever I go out. plus they sell em almost everywhere.

Are you serious? You actually put this on your skin?

 

[relicminer]

Thermacell is the only thing that I will trust.

 

[pwcguy]

Spray this stuff on your clothes and it works for up to six weeks. It kills bugs on contact. It is very toxic to house cats though. Non toxic to humans.
http://www.google.com/products/cata...m=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=7017738173452413311

This stuff rocks!