Skin so soft may not work for mosquitos, but it sure works well for sand
flies (those little bitey ones at your favourite warm beach...).  It
seems that the little flies get all gummed up by the greasy lotion.

DEET works, but it's pretty nasty stuff to apply to something porous
like skin.  Long sleeves and pant legs work well too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Marshall Ruskin
Sent: April 8, 2004 1:12 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: [Syncro] BUG repellant

I live in Winnipeg, and I know a few things about mosquitos and what
works
to repell them.

1.    Skin-so-Soft working as a mosquito repellent is a wive's tale. It
has
a very small effect, and it wears off very quickly. That's been proven.
Avon
just took advantage of this popular myth to promote the product.