It scientifically proven. Repellents containing DEET like OFF! will protect you for 3 to 6 hours. Those expensive citronella lotion or patch lasts less than an hour.
Read what CDC has to say about DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide).
According to CDC, A product containing 23.8% DEET provided an average of 5 hours of protection from mosquito bites. DEET is used by Armed forces worldwide and about 200 million people globally used DEET each year. Its toxicology has been more closely scrutinized than other repellents and its deemed to be safe even on children and pregnant women.
The mosquitoes in Ubin can be torture. The solutions we tried include burning egg cartons; coconut husks; mosquito coils; benzoin incense which bomohs use, ingesting vitamin E tablets. Nparks even set a high tech mosquito killing machine once.
Despite my skepticism and myths, there are still a lot of interest in convenience repellents products. FWIW, you can check reviews by users and order them cheaply online.
Super Mosquito 48-Hour Repelling Patch
Digital Mosquito Repeller with Armband
Forget the army “bug juice” types used during Vietnam war era and sold in Army shops. The DEET concentration is so high that it melts your digital camera plastic body.
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