Important public service bulletin

[custardlover]

The results are in and it’s been confirmed - the whole ‘Avon Skin So Soft dry oil repels insects bites’ is a load of old lies and nonsense. You actually need proper insect repellent.

Love from (Gullible)CustardLover, live from my itchy bed on holiday in France.

Aaagaggghhhhwhy do I believe things on the internet!?! What a clown. My ankles are a mosquito’s all-you-can-eat-buffet.

Ouch! Try Sudocrem or equivalent on your insect bites.

I used to love a browse through the Avon catalogue back in the days when there was always a work colleague or two 'doing Avon' but the products rarely lived up to their own hype.

I think possibly it used to have some effect but they changed the formulation for some reason.
This is good for what works and what doesnt
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001np5v

maybe Sudocreme soothes but antihistamine cream is what you need.

Yes, I’m on the proper stuff now. I am delicious to these beasts to I really should have learned my lesson but the idea of something which doesn’t make my eyes water and smell like napalm was seductive

Antihistamine cream with a steroid & antihistamine tablets. Mosquitos are the worst. I feel your pain.

Smidge insect repellent is great

Not much use to you now right enough. You poor soul. I get bitten if I even look outside. That's in Scotland with midges.. mozzies are no fun either.

It works for me taken alongside an antihistamine (loritadine as the main ingredient).

Anyone got any idea why my daughter only has to walk from the house to her car and gets bitten, where I can sit all day in the garden unbothered? Is it marmite? Garlic? Skin like an old raisin?

Might be too late now but incognito has a range of sun /insect repellent products. This did seem to work. They do sun cream shower gel & room refreshers which I will be trying this year. The whole family get bitten & I spend a small fortune trying to find something that helps deter the evil buggers. I’ve used smidge but this worked better for us.
https://www.biggreensmile.com/products/incognito-natural-aftersun-and-moisturiser/lmsun.aspx?productid=lmsun&srsltid=AfmBOorSzk78lTWYX65xcfkRXU2QyV2cek73sW4INfoyC6JH-X9EsC3j

I was always bitten loads as a child, but rarely now.
Perhaps it is to do with old skin?
Or maybe we are less juicy now 😂

And it has an odd smell

Although I didn’t realise it supposedly had insect repellent capability.

Great podcast thank you - I’m off to buy some Deet!

I just listened to the BBC Sliced Bread episode a PP linked to above (thank you!) and it said that essentially it’s to do with our immune response which is more vehement when newer (eg younger) and calms TF down as we get more used to being bitten (eg older). So maybe I should be flattered by the mozzie reaction which is the insect equivalent of calling me Mademoiselle.

Go to the Pharmacie and get some cinq/cinq tropic.

DEET is the one which smells vile - the newer ones based on icaridin aka picaridin are also effective but don’t smell. This is what’s in Boots Repel spray and they also do a sunscreen with it in which we’re finding convenient (DH is a magnet for horseflies!)

I never get bitten, it could be my blood type or that I eat a lot of garlic!

I do spray Turkish cologne on me, on bedding and in the air and biting insects run a mile.

I usually get bitten to death but Avon Skin So Soft worked for me, isn't one of their boasts that the army use it? I used it in Florida, repeatedly, year after year around mosquitos and never got bit.

But that was a few years ago so if they have now changed the formula it may not be as effective. Sorry you got bit.

I first heard this load of BS about Avon's Skin So Soft back in 2003!
Long before people were passing along fake news on the internet!

I second incognito, I am a magnet for mosquitoes and react really badly to bites but incognito is my saviour! We usually get the spray and roll on, and use the soap in tropical destinations as well.