On Apr 1, 2004, at 11:01 AM, mark lortie wrote:

>  AVONS Skin-So-Soft lotion
>
> we buy it by the case for our fishing camp ( &  i've heard all the
> jokes
> & rude comments allready , thanks !!) .
>
> I have no idea why it works but it does, explaining the smell to the
> wives & girlfriends back home is another story ; )

The U.S. Army did a study against skin-so-soft and concluded that it
worked by masking the odor of the human body (and the carbon dioxide
given off.)  It's perhaps not as nasty as DEET, but it *is* an
industrial solvent.

For Caravana Pan Americana, we used 3M Ultrathon, a time release DEET
formulation.  Seemed to work.

coyote

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