Sunscreen then Bug Spray

wintermute

wintermute

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Just wondering if there's a prefered order to apply sunscreen and bug spray (26% DEET).

Also, I saw a spray bottle of mosquito and tick repellent (the bottle clearly made a point that it was geared towards ticks) the other day at Ace. It was DEET-based but also had two other active ingredients listed for ticks (don't remember what they were but had long scientific names but it wasn't permetherine or picardin). Don't remember what brand it was, but it was a major brand. After getting bit by a deer tick last year and having to go through taking real nasty antibiotics, i'm a bit tick-shy. Wondering if it's worth picking this stuff up.
 
DEET is a repellant, not an insecticide. The other ingredients for ticks may be the insecticide known as permethrin (also called permanone). A 25% concentration of DEET will, on average, repel mosquitoes and and such for 5 hours.
 
For ticks and chiggers just spray you pant legss with Lysol. A lot of the oil and gas guys use WD40 instead, but it tends to mess up your shoes or boots. It works believe or not.
Terry
 
tsf said:
For ticks and chiggers just spray you pant legss with Lysol. A lot of the oil and gas guys use WD40 instead, but it tends to mess up your shoes or boots. It works believe or not.
Terry
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Terry, does WD40 just apply to ticks and chiggers, or will it help with skeeters as well?

Thanks,

Dave
 
Wal-Mart has tiny spray bottles of combined deet mosquito repelant and 30 spf sunscreen.
 
Dave, it will keep them off where you spray, but as a general repellant does not work. But you will smell very manly.
Terry
 
I've used the OFF with sunscreen and I'm very pleased with it.
Scott
 
What reading I've done about sunscreen and repellant says that sunscreen should go on first, as it's more effective in direct contact with the skin, as opposed to just "between" the skin and the sun (ie: on top of a layer of bug spray).
 
Deep Woods Off in the small squeeze bottle NOT the spray can. For some reason I can't find it in any of the city stores (Edmonton, Alberta) but almost every small town gas station has a small row of it.

Nothing like it for keeping stuff off you, including No-see-um's and Bulldogs (a rather large horsefly variant out in the NWT that likes to bite HARD).

Enjoy :D
 
tsf said:
Dave, it will keep them off where you spray, but as a general repellant does not work. But you will smell very manly.
Terry
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Thanks, but I'll stick with the gun oil for a manly aroma. Truth be told, as hot as it is in the shop now, there's no lack of man smell after about half an hour out there.:thumbdn: Can't believe the cats don't run to their litter boxes when I come back in the house...

Regards,

Dave
 
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