Bites

[sengas]

Please I need help from you lovely people who take their time to a sewer our ?., Ok I always seem to get bitten as soon as summer comes that's me spending a bloody fortune it seems. Now I have read that garlic is a smell that most biting bugs dislike now my querie is when you put or rub a bit of garlic on your skin will one rub be enough ie like a dab on the wrists . Will that keep them at bay or could they go for my legs I cannot imagine having to cover myself in garlic , being I get rid of bites but also my friends ha , anyway any advice would be helpful, I am going on holiday soon and am gonna need major stuff for that but for now garlic help.

[hc4361]

It doesn't work, read here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mosquito-mythbusting-real-repellents-stand/story?id=10543307

[midagetrolop]

sengas, I am allergic to some bites and have to be very careful, you need to get some insect repellent with DEET - you can get 50p.c. and 100 p.c. i have tried all these other methods and nothing works as well. Even been to Kenya and other parts of Africa and never got bitten - you can also get permethrin which you spray on your clothes. You can get off Amazon. Take care!

[Jennykenny]

I read that soldiers serving in mozzie areas use Avon Oh So Soft skincare to battle against them. Worth a try?

[heathfield]

That should be "Avon Skin So Soft". Used by the US National Guard on forest exercises. Can't be advertised in the UK as an insect repellent, but there's an ingredient in it that they don't like. There's a handy dry oil version that my wife and I have found that works on our holidays in the tropics.

[heathfield]

By the way, Deet is pretty viscious stuff. It'll melt anything plastic, like sunglasses frames and camera bodies, etc. We never go near it.

[midagetrolop]

Deet has never melted my sunglasses or anything else if you don't spray it on them! I would rather be safe than sorry!

[heathfield]

You rub it on, it gets all over you hands, then you touch plasticky things and it leaves permanent fingermarks on them!