Re: [Paddlewise] Avon bug repelant?

From: <JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 06:42:13 EDT
In a message dated 98-05-31 22:38:53 EDT, SGScorpio_at_aol.com writes:

<< You need to find a Avon salesperson to get some SSS.  I found that it did
not
 work all that great and it makes you smell kinda *fruity*.  We used it  for
 sand fleas and chiggers in Costa Rica and El Salvador with marginal
results.>>

I'd second Steve's comments.  The stuff got big play when the military issued
it as a bug repellent a while back, and a lot of military surplus stores
carried it --- and some still do.  Some of them still have a <lot> of it,
though, because the results aren't that impressive.  It did zip-point-nothing
to the attack bugs in Alaska last summer!  Go DEET --- but be careful with its
reactions with synthetics!

Jack
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