From Consumer Reports. The last two don't contain DEET.
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Consumer Reports Health also tested 10 insect repellents at an outside
lab, where brave testers bared their arms in mosquito-filled cages and
let deer ticks crawl on them. Consumer Reports recorded how long it
took for two common types of mosquitoes to start biting and for deer
ticks to decide it was safe to crawl over treated areas.
Six repellents protected against deer ticks and mosquitoes for seven
hours or more. Four of those contain deet in varying levels. The
Environmental Protection Agency judges deet safe when used as directed,
but it has caused rare toxic reactions when misused. It shouldn’t be
applied to infants less than two months old. The American Academy of
Pediatrics advises against using repellents with deet concentrations
higher than 30 percent on any children. Consumer Reports Health thinks
that no one needs a repellent with more than 30 percent deet.
Bottom line, most of the tested products will do the job if you’re going
outside for only a couple of hours, but look for a highly rated product
to protect you on longer excursions. The six top choices, all earning a
“Recommended” Rating from Consumer Reports, worked for at least seven
hours, though they feel and smell somewhat different: Off! Deep Woods
Sportsmen II, Cutter Backwoods Unscented, Off! FamilyCare Smooth & Dry;
3M Ultrathon Insect Repellent 8, Repel Plant Based Lemon Eucalyptus, and
Natrapel 8-hour with picaridin.
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Chuck Norcutt
Bob Whitmire wrote:
> There's some pretty good natural bug repellant on the market now. No
> deet, etc. The disadvantage is that it doesn't last long. Frequent
> applications necessary. Most of them are citrus-based, so as a rule
> you smell better and don't feel as creepy as you feel with heavy
> concentrations of deet. I'm out a lot at sunrise, when the mosquitoes
> are ravenous, so I sometimes resort to the gentler deet products,
> applying sparingly with reapplications as necessary.
>
> --Buggsy Whitmire
> www.bobwhitmire.com
>
>
>
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>
> On Jun 18, 2010, at 12:21 AM, Moose wrote:
>
>> My first visit to Maine was in July. Everything but mosquitoes was
>> gone
>> by then, but they did chase us out of more than one area and cut short
>> some photography.
>
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