On Aug 18, 8:02*pm, digitaldougb wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations for a bug spray that's:
1) odorless as possible
2) not gooey or sticky
3) preferably doesn't have Deet (which eats my watch crystal)
4) lasts for a couple hours at least
5) and keeps as many types of bugs away as possible.

Hope that isn't asking too much?????
Thanks in advance...
Doug

I suspect that it probably is too much. Based on all that I've read
and heard in recent years (and corroborated by personal experience)
DEET is pretty much the exclusive miracle ingredient in modern
commercial insect repellants. Of course, there are advocates for any
number of preparations but there is precious little other than
anecdotal evidence supporting most of them.

On the other hand, if you're not married to the notion of an over the
counter spray, I have it on excellent authority that a combination of
carvedilol, aspirin, clopidogrel and simvastatin taken orally, daily,
(see a physician for correct dosages) is remarkably effective in
fending off mosquitoes. Efficacy with regard to other biting flies
(yes, mosquitoes are diptera) remains to be demonstrated.

The bad news is that this is an entirely ineffectual tick
repellant.

The good news is that the ticks invariably die.


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