Bug spray

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


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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.


g.

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 have found that Burt's Insect repellant works well for me. It claims to be
non-toxic containing lemon seed oil, grape seed oil, and citronela (sp?)
oil. It is an oily product, but it keeps the bugs off of Bear and myself
quite well and it smells good too!
Op

"Mark Bowen" wrote in message
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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 have found that Burt's Insect repellant works well for me. It claims to
be non-toxic containing lemon seed oil, grape seed oil, and citronela
(sp?) oil. It is an oily product, but it keeps the bugs off of Bear and
myself quite well and it smells good too!
Op


Hey, wait a second...

Those are the same ingredients ha are in Dr. Amends 'Pheromone Advantage'
that I have been using to attract women...

....must be pretty much a universal repellant...

John

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:02:52 -0700 (PDT), 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

If your only issue with DEET is your watch, my advice would be use the DEET and
don't wear that watch (or get one with a mineral crystal). There are dozens of
other "potions" out there that will keep a few pesky insects away for a limited
time - everything from "Skin So Soft" (or however it's spelled - an Avon lotion)
to citronella-based stuff to flower-based (it's some type of chrysanthemum,
which general group is also the basis for some insecticides - do a Google search
for products based on it), but in my considerable experience (I spend most of my
time in areas that are full of various "flying biting critters"), DEET is the
most readily available and effective.

A little trick - keep a small bottle (1-2 oz/25-50ml) of household ammonia VERY
handy for gnat bites - if you get into a patch of them, simply rub some of the
ammonia on the area with the bites...that "bite stick" stuff, at $5-6USD a
"tube" is nothing but ammonia...and for God's sake, don't carry it in a Gatorade
bottle, a sippy box, Drambuie airliner, baby bottle, or anything that a child
(or child-like adult) might remotely mistake for a container that once held
consumable liquid, lest a child (or Louie) find it and guzzle it...or worse, it
might get Dave, Bill, and Goatgang embroiled in a 413 post thread about
religion, responsibility, and pseudochemistry....

Good luck,
R

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writes
Drambuie airliner, baby bottle, or anything that a child
(or child-like adult) might remotely mistake for a container that once held
consumable liquid, lest a child (or Louie) find it and guzzle it...or worse, it
might get Dave, Bill, and Goatgang embroiled in a 413 post thread about
religion, responsibility, and pseudochemistry....

Would that be moi or the other Bill.

I'm just an innocent bystander - really.
--
Bill Grey

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:34:28 +0100, Bill Grey wrote:

In message ,
writes
Drambuie airliner, baby bottle, or anything that a child
(or child-like adult) might remotely mistake for a container that once held
consumable liquid, lest a child (or Louie) find it and guzzle it...or worse, it
might get Dave, Bill, and Goatgang embroiled in a 413 post thread about
religion, responsibility, and pseudochemistry....

Would that be moi or the other Bill.

HOLY **** - THERE ARE _TWO_ OF YOU?!

I'm just an innocent bystander - really.

Yeah, right...

TC,
R

In message ,
writes
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:34:28 +0100, Bill Grey
wrote:

In message ,
writes
Drambuie airliner, baby bottle, or anything that a child
(or child-like adult) might remotely mistake for a container that once held
consumable liquid, lest a child (or Louie) find it and guzzle it...or
worse, it
might get Dave, Bill, and Goatgang embroiled in a 413 post thread about
religion, responsibility, and pseudochemistry....

Would that be moi or the other Bill.

HOLY **** - THERE ARE _TWO_ OF YOU?!

I'm just an innocent bystander - really.

Yeah, right...

TC,
R

Nice to be remembered - thaank you :-)
--
Bill Grey

wrote:

... embroiled in a 413 post thread about
religion, responsibility, and pseudochemistry....

Good luck,
R

indeed...but, inexplicable mysteries abound.

On Aug 19, 4:12*pm, jeff wrote:
wrote:
... *embroiled in a 413 post thread about
religion, responsibility, and pseudochemistry....

Good luck,
R

indeed...but, inexplicable mysteries abound.

Pseudo or no, one thing you would not want to do is spray that ammonia
onto anything with chlorine on it. A little on a lot of bleach or
"pool chemicals" and you could easily get a nasty explosion. A spray
or two onto or into bleach and you get a release of deadly chlorine
gas. Even a little of that gas will damage your lungs. Chemistry is
real.

Dave