Best Mosquito Repellent - Actual in the field Battle Off with DEET vs. Cutter's Lemon Eucalyptus
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- On my last backpacking trip I decided to test Off with 25% DEET and Cutter's 30% Lemon Eucalyptus insect repellent. The bugs were biting, mosquitoes and all types of flies. I sprayed one half of my body with one brand and the other half with the other. I found both to do the job, but the DEET still allowed the mosquito to land on the skin, then it would leave without biting. As opposed to the Cutter's that seemed to not be of any interest at all and the bugs stayed quite a ways away.
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Wow! I can hear those pesky mosquitoes flying around your microphone. They are relentless.
That was a perfect test environment. I have another company now that wants to contend for the best in a similar competition this year. Not enough bugs yet though.
Haha, I thought the same thing!
Great video Bruce, thanks for taking one for the team.
As you do quite often. Sometimes we do silly things too. Can't figure out this one though.
Now that is a very useful review for me to watch, since I'm in the tropics. Thanks a lot for sharing, Bruce. Good one.
Yes you are. Just saw the flood water video. Wow that is amazing.
Nature Calls Backpacking Thank you, Bruce. It's crazy, that flood passes right in front of my house. Every time we have a heavy rain. Adventure at every corner. Literally. :-)
Thank you for this review. As a new father of two, 2 year old and a 5 month old, going outside more often for playtime will increase the older they get.. so! Thank you for helping my family out and I’m now deciding the natural vs Deet.
You are welcome. I am the same and always hate to put chemicals on my kids if I don't need to . Although I did grow up with 100% deet on everytrip.
If you're in South or Central America or wherever malaria is a problem, don't try to be a new age eco warrior and screw around with holistic all-natural products. Go for the 85% DEET. Malaria is no joke
I will follow your advice. Alaska was about the same
Good Test Bruce!! After my last experience with Deet, I am looking for a more natural repellent. Thanks for doing this for us and your thoughts!
Thanks Ralph. I am pretty happy still with it since I did the video. It is the primary choice of the family and is still acting the same way.
Good info bruce I've always used deet but man it reeks havoc on the gear and skin
That was my issue as well. The newer DEET isn't so bad, but still smells a bit rank.
The Repel lemon eucalyptus lasted about 2 hours for me, but it was really muggy, so I was sweating a bunch. It might last longer in better weather. It's not as irritating to my asthma as the DEET. We have some pretty thirsty bugs here in Texas, and it worked against the annoying gnats and flies too!
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO!! I'll definitely buy some of that lemon eucalyptus repellent!
Great review, to the point and good commentary. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing this video - I'll definitely get some Cutter's for my trip to Sweden this summer
Good video. I cut back on cutter, since I saw another clip calling deet a pesticide.skin so soft has been working so far.
Thanks. Yes, DEET doesn't even hide that it is a potent product. Skin so soft works for a lot of people too.
Thanks Bruce. Gonna give the Cutters a shot next weekend. Bugs have been horrible in the mountains lately. :)
It was the flies too. I thought just keeping up a good pace would have helped but they would still get on and bite. Loving you enchantment vids.
Thanks for doing this! Have liked and subscribed!
My wife went fishing to a lake in Canada once where the mosquitos were thicker and more aggressive than we ever thought possible. (They were actually biting us through our clothes). Absolutely the only thing that would repel them is 98% deet that I just happen to bring along. The local guy who owned the cabin/fishing resort told me that deet is the only thing that works and it has to be at least 30%. ( Brand names are unimportant...its' the % of deet) All the other non deet alternatives that people had were ineffective.
I've never tried DEET, I have tried Cutter's Lemon Eucalyptus. It seems to work well for me. Smells strong though and no idea how long it lasts for sure. I'm usually not outside long enough to find out, but I know it's hard to wash off, so it might last awhile. I also noticed that Cutters repels fleas in flea infested areas. You can watch them jump on your socks then jump right back off.
I am the same way Mark. Even with the repellents I am not out for the full time of any of them really.
Mark Reaves deet is super good stinks but good
Thanks for doing this. Totally needs this especially I'm allergic to mosquito bites
Great informative video, i just liked and subscribed, well done
Thanks Tom. I might subject myself to another test this year. Waiting on the little devils now.
Do you think the Cutter would work for chiggers? We're infrested with them and my husband can't hardly use DEET due to a reaction.
Dang dude…half a can of Deet will stop a dragon.
i always get attacked... and the cutters has really been my brand-new great friend that i have wish to have known about along time ago... at least i know about it now! thank you! I have been spraying it in my hand and then rub it on skin then its not all blown into the wind and it works fabulous. i appreciate your video - thanx
Good tip Kristy. I was getting eaten before the treatment of either and would have bathed in it. Glad you hear you like the Cutters.
Nice video Bruce, While in the Marine Corp in the early 80's we used Skin So Soft from Avon and seemed to work pretty good. I dont know how it compare's to today's product.
I will have to ask the boys what they are using today. I also heard that Avon product is good. Did you wear nylons to combat the ticks?
Just our woodland camo's Bruce.
So nice that the mosquitoes didn't interrupt the killing.
@@jagga309 you can't properly take the lives of our scum enemies with mosquitoes bothering you
May the blood flow uninterrupted!
@@jagga309 Guess they missed you then, right?
Nice testing Bruce
Thanks. Been waiting a year to do it too.
Nice!! Hi from Barbados.. i saw a product called Protec not sure if you've seen it
Cutters spray is good, but it does attract bees. I'd recently went camping near Mammoth Mountain, and had Cutters spray with me. Sprayed a ton on my body during the mosquito hours, but the bees (yellow jacket) kept hovering around me. So, there's a thought.
Thanks Stet. I didn't have that problem, but sounds like it could happen.
I really like eucalyptus oil. Not only it repels mosquitoes, it also has multiple health benefits, can act as headache reliever, makes your chest and stomach area feel better when applied, has calming scent, helps clear runny nose when you sniffed it. Also, when the oil eventually evaporates and dries off after like many hours later and the effects wears off, your skin doesn't feel oily.
Do you use straight eucalyptus oil?
@@naturecallsoutdoors Yes, in the composition of the product it said eucalyptus oil 100%. The brand is Cap Lang if you're curious. It's a product from Indonesian pharmacy company who is very well known in producing this kind of stuffs.
@@Arpin_Lusene Great, thanks I will see if I can get it.
How well does the eucalyptus oil hold up when sweating? Is it better to apply to your wardrobe or skin?
@@rcs9358 I'm not sure. I'll say just apply it on your skin, not only that's what it's made for, but also I think the smell would be too overwhelming and you will go through a lot of the oil if you apply it to your clothing cause they will absorb it
Thank you for your hard work and helping world.
Thanks Bruce from Holland, the natural way worked fine.
Awesome AB
Good Review. Nice T-shirt.
solid review... love real world example.... Thanks...
I spent all last summer doing forest inventory in WV. I only used that lemon stuff. I’d spray it heavy in my hands then rub my arms and neck down. Around lunch I’d put on more. I thought it worked great, you smell like a flower all the time which is nice but the loggers did have a field day with that.
Thank you for sharing!
Cool ! Bet they don’t make it anymore since it works . I’ve not see it anywhere. I’ll look online. Thank you 😊
Thank you for your sacrifice
Thanks great report!!
It looks miserable to have that many bugs at your campsite. I especially hate the biting flies.
Lol biting flies, u mean mosquitoes
The flies were little satan bugs. Luckily both treatments held them off pretty well.
Would you think you could use cutters on dogs ? it would not surprise me if it reduces chance of getting tick bites to
spray your campsite thick with lemon eucalyptus they'll keep their distance.
Grow up
Thank you! And Now Im itching LOL
Spraying some repellent on a glove and rubbing it on yourself is an effective all over application that uses a lot less repellent so you get more bang for your buck.
Great scientific experiment :) subbed
If you know nothing about science, yes.
@@pj6100 lol not really scientific but still interesting to see whether or not they avoided the deet covered side more than the citronella
Thanks sincerely
Thanks Joe, I appreciate you watching and commenting. The sound of the mosquitoes even now are terrible to listen too aren't they?
looks like 4 hours later some beers might have change your perception of mosquitos XD
Good video. 40% deet is the only way to go if your not using plant based repellent.
thanks, I will check that out this year in a new battle
Man fuck mosquitoes. My friend got bitten by one with dengue in 4th grade and I didn’t see her for half the school year. I had a crush on her so that made me sad😢
Which means if u dont have deet on the skin they land on. Lunch.
Thanks papa smurf.
You are welcome. Anything for you
I'd go with Cutters too, the less poison on the skin, the better. Cheers, Marc
That is what I like too. The idea of putting so much DEET is just scary. I think it does something with the electrical functions of the nerves too.
I'm gonna try some of the cutters against florida yellow flies. wish me luck
How did it go?
@@naturecallsoutdoors It kind of worked. But the yellow flies are devilish and I settled on the strongest Deet I could find (40% Deet from Repel, available at Dollar General). Its still pretty tough working outside when those things are hovering trying to find untreated skin. They like to fly inside your glasses, too. Best thing to do is avoid that region during June and July, but if you have to be there, 40% Deet helps, the lemon eucalyptus wasn't really up to the task.
@@DukeLaCrosse20 Good to know. I am hoping to do this again...not really...but with another battle. Maybe 40% vs 100%
You should do a Review on REPEL Tick Defense' It has No Deet' and Works Really Good Against Mosquitoes!"
Side issue...be careful with DEET around anything plastic. It WILL dissolve the plastic because it's a good organic solvent.
Sure will. Friend sprayed it near his car and ruined the headlights and his glasses
Nice comparison, I just wish you put the same amount, when you started you put ALOT of off and the other side 5 or 6 sprays, I think I try almost all that exist, commercial and home made, my favorite commercial is Muskol for sure, natural home made almost the same ingredients but an native elder show me a plant that is just awesome, good for every little critter out there, I live in north Quebec and they are mean and hungry, at night when the sun goes down you can even hear them coming in mass, like a buzzing sound, almost scary, he show me kinda of a dry mushroom that you put on a stick ( split in half about 10 inches open it and place it in it) light it up and voila, last about 5 hours, you can put a couple around camp, I will try to find the names and will come back.
I didn't film very well but I would say I tried to be even. Will do it again this year. So great you have access to the old school remedies. They will be lost eventually.
@@naturecallsoutdoors Thanks for your reply, better late than never:) The dry mushroom ( kind of) grow on birch tree ( chaga) it's use for alot of things, very useful, and like you said almost a lost cause, people are less interested by natural remedies, traditions or even foraging but as old native keep telling me, 1 day " shit " will hit the fan and people will have to survive on there own, this is when they will get back to it, it would be awesome if they start learning things that will be useful in case something happen, maybe nothing will happen but better have it and not need it than don't have it and needed it ;)
@@dannygarden464 Yes sorry about the delay. I missed a few. When I was younger chopping firewood to help pay for college I fell and got some pretty good gouges across my back. The only person around was this old native american woman who got some kind of dusty potion and ground it into my cuts and said I will be fine. It worked. I wish we had chaga around here, but alas none. Found some up in Alaska though.
@@naturecallsoutdoors Interesting story, I been on and off with them for the last 20 years( long story:) and I still learn new things all the time and will do so till I die, I just love the mentality and the way they respect the "land", on that good luck with your channel, good day.
Yup. Best option is to make your own essentail oils spray, or rub-in skin oils (with diluted olive oil). Lemon, orange, citronella, sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano, eucalpytus, camphor, cedar, pine, fir, peppermint, spearmint, (horse) mint, ... all (or in combination) makes great anti-bugger (bug off you little biting females !) formulas. And if you carry in bottle, then can put drops into candles or spray/drop into campfire (for the vapors) and they will keep the bugs away. Same for spraying your hammock or netting, and all is good.
Had an event in Santa Cruz mountains, didn't make a campfire, and those insane little vampire bitches !!!, they were attempting to drill right through my Levis ! Was a fight and John 100:skeeters 0 (actually found there was 4 who drilled through. Insane. Needed my essential oils, and there would be no bugger problems.
Reason why I said kill 1 mosquito and whole family and cousins come to funeral, smelling the blood smell, and it just draws them for a mile !
Great recipe. I will need to make up a bottle.
Essential oils other than lemon eucalyptus don't work effectively, check out the studies
Be careful applying some of these to your skin since they are photosensitizers (make you more prone to sunburn), and they can eat up synthetic fabrics.
Boil a couple teaspoons of ground up organic tobacco in half a gallon of water. Strain it. Then you can bottle it up as natural body spray bug repellent. Works great without all the chemicals. Except a natural nicotine but that's what keeps the bugs away. The small amount of tobacco in half a gallon of water shouldn't have any effects of nicotine seeping through your skin or causing addiction. Just get some organic tobacco from your local tobacco shop. I've even used Gambler pipe tobacco processed with less nicotine. Lifehack I learned from an Eagle's instructor when I was younger.
I hate being bit by mosquitoes and I’m allergic. This video gave me anxiety in the beginning.
this video made me itch!!
Deet is proven to immediately repel ticks that cutter not sure if it is proven to do so. While in the woods I would go for the Deet
I,m spanish , what is DEET ? Thanks !
its english
You put both on you can't tell which is better:(
I'm concerned about that t-shirt I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing so I will stay open-minded nice video
Thanks Benjamin. Interesting times
@@naturecallsoutdoors just messing with u. Nice vids....and for gods sake don't smoke
As a black person I like your shirt
You must be a dog lover also. Sounds like you are a great person. Take care.
Fk BLM it's a scam.
U can make your own. And it worksz better than any other spray and no chemicals. Cocunut oil, littl bit distilled water, lemon extract, Vanilla extract and spary it and rub it in
Thanks much appreciated!!!!
You are welcome Will try and do another test this year.
The lemon eucalyptus one burns my skin, so uncomfortable
Scientists prove bugs dont like deet on their feet. Thats why they landed then took off.
100% Deet for Sand gnats Skeeter's are cake.
Good to know. Heading for a coast hike this week. Maybe another test
Would it be healthier to wear long sleeves and long pants and spray the clothing rather than skin?
Or maybe soak clothes in this stuff and air dry? That would be an interesting test
It probably would be much nicer on the skin. Hot, sweaty climb to that lake.
I'm allergic to DEET . Permethrin is My clothing treatment . Roasted Garlic cloves ward off bugs , pesky family and neighbors if Ya eat enough . LOL
250 steps till replenet wears off!
Pokémon
RUN BRUCE!!!🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃
No kidding Alex. I did another video of the trip that has me checking and repairing all the little holes in my bug net so I could get some sleep.
Deet sprays caused me to have heat rash so don't use that anymore
Yes, I have used the cutters ever since this video. works great
Yep deet has some weird chemicals that make a purple color on my skin
I remember me and my friend ran into like100 misquotos just flying around in a sworm in the woods we ran for our life's lmao like I've never seen that many misquittos in my life
Haha thank you for the sacrifice. :)
DEET would probably work just as well or even better if you had a higher percentage spray. 30% is usually a pretty good amount, although you can get even higher than that.
Yep. Sprayed em right down the middle. 50/50, no question. 😂
should have sprayed the camera
Deet works by hurting mosquito feet
Cutters is good 👍
Love that T Shirt Bruce. 😉
Thanks Dougie. Designed it myself. Sometimes I think it makes people cringe a little
Nature Calls Backpacking Let them cringe.
You're blue. If you were green, would you die?
also, thank you for your service! where was this mosquito & fly hell? (though it does look beautiful, but very blue)
There is nothing wrong with deet. All assumptions that deet is bad are based on bad science and rumors.
Yep I agree. I have had so much deet on my body over my 58 years and no ill effects...as far as I know
GREAT SHIRT
That shirt wouldn't fly rn in America lol.
Thanks. It is available on Spreadshirt and selling like hotcakes right now. Interesting times
Me six million years in the future combine them
Cutter works better than off.
Agreed. I found that the skeeters would land on the off then leave, but would not land on the cutters.
This blue hue is horrible
just looking at this gives me the creeps. poor guy
It was a good battle and I was glad that both at least kept the biting down. It was nice to get into the bugnetted hammock for sure.
I'm blue, da ba dee da ba daa
Oh man that shirt is so relevant now
They are both toxic chemicals ..the "lemon eucolipus" one is really 65% p-menthane-3,8-diol
Love the black labs matter shirt 🙂
WOW, Black labs eh? I stopped your video right after seeing that.
You win the virtue signal for the day! Congrats
Fk BLM it's a scam! What have they actually done for the community? Not a damn thing!
Go to Brazil or some African country , your mosquitoes are posh ...talk later , take a net
I bet their are some monsters out there. Ours are small but very annoying
Ha Ha! Black Labs Matter. Hilarious!!!!!