Many natural mosquito repellents actually work fairly well. "Fairly well" is translated to mean - much better than using nothing. However all of them that I have used and or made require frequent application. Frequent as in every 5 to 20 minutes
Of all the mosquitoes you saw buzzing around in the video (and I was out there for three hours) none of them bit me. Maybe it was the Natrapel, maybe I was just quick enough to shoo them away before they could find a good place to bite. I don't know if it works on blackflies, as I didn't see a single one that day. maybe they would have come out in a few more hours closer to dusk. FYI: Right after filming, I put on more repellent for the walk home.
Well I too agree with you on the deet. i do not like using the deet on my skin. However there are times when the mosquittoes are ferrocious along with voracious appetites. At those times, natural plant based repellents just may not be enough.
Hi from Barbados thanks so much for the review. I have tried almost everything, the personal device sounds good we just don't have them here. Unfortunately I don't own a credit card so I can't even order them online. Tracey ❤💛💚
Thank you…Good video ..wanted to try something new, because Deep Woods breaks me out in a major, hospital visit rash. Peace and Blessings PS: Oh and thanks for the tracking tips!
If truth be told, nothing I have ever tried worked great. It is a numbers game. If deet keeps away 95% of mosquitoes , and there are a hundred around with in an hour, not bad. That is 5 bites per hour. But when there are 10's of thousands, you still end up getting a bad chewing. Thanks for the review.
Yes, I believe you're right. And for a lot of people just having them swarming and buzzing around your head is too much to bear. The best thing is to keep your skin covered as much as possible, so the only easy target they have is your face, then you can easily brush them away as they land and before they get to bite.
Thanks. I'm going to try this one next: Woods Inaridin Insect Repellent: www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/woods-icaridin-family-mosquito-repellent-0590880p.html#srp it is available from Canadian Tire, and it was "TESTED For Life In Canada"... We'll see :-) It's supposed to last for 12 hours. You probably don't need anything that lasts that long just to walk your dog in the mornings.
Of all the mosquitoes you saw buzzing around in the video (and I was out there for three hours) none of them bit me. Maybe it was the Natrapel, maybe I was just quick enough to shoo them away before they could find a good place to bite.
Hi Muskrat Jim, I have an old bottle of this but I think the formula may be different, it says Citronella as the key ingredient. It works for sure, perhaps not as well as the heavy duty Deet-based stuff though. I use another product called Beck-Olja Oil, it is Pine Tar based in a small glass bottle, it is made in Finland by a company called Wilma. Wilma makes a variety of natural products for the woodsman. This stuff works well, but has a strong Pine Tar smell that some do not like. I have noticed that when I have used it in hot, sunny weather it can burn my skin (I have fair skin though). All the Best to you WS.
I think there might be several formulations. The one I have, yours with citronella, and another fellow said his has permethrin in it. Mine has a refreshing woodsy smell to it, not perfume or smelly. Mine is easy to sweat off, so you have to re-apply every few hours, not six like the bottle says.
I would love to see what happens in the same environment or setting when you use Repel. Also since it doesn't contain Deet and one of the main ingredients is lemon eucalyptus unlike yourself, I spray it on my neck and behind my neck also letting some hit the sides of my face and the top of my forehead of course covering my eyes. When I'm in the woods I also wear a hat but I spray my hat very well as well as the rest of my body even with long sleeves on and my boots. That's right head to toe with a generous amount, front and back. I'm in Virginia and when it's hot and humid especially after rain mosquitoes can be brutal but Repel works extremely well and I can be outside for hours without the mosquitoes biting me once. When you're in woods that deep with that many mosquitoes when you spray only a little bit and gently pat your face and the back of your neck they're so aggressive they're going to look for any part that doesn't have the repellent. So just think about it if they come for your face and then try to hover around other parts of your body there still smelling the repellent there keeping the majority if not all of them away depending on how much you put on. Repeal is simply awesome. If I want to take a break to eat or just relax even though I sprayed my body and my hat I'll pump out a few shots all around me. Just sharing my technique and I hope this helps.
We're using Natrapel with 20% Picaridin. It works great on these down south swamp mosquitoes and I've yet to pick a tick off me. Picaridin is "supposed" to be safer than DEET and does not degrade synthetic material like DEET. We quit using DEET when it ate the non-leather parts of a high dollar pair of snake boots.
DEET melts plastics, so you have to watch it around your eye glasses. Picaridin was only approved in Canada in 2012, so it's still fairly new around these parts. it is now called Icaridin up here, I don't know why they changed the name. In my search I found it's here in my local Canadian Tire Store (Automotive/Sporting Goods/ Hardware store). I'll have to pick up a bottle this week!
I have one of those jackets from my brother-in-law. He bought it for himself when mowing the lawn, but found it too claustrophobic. So now it's mine, but I haven't tried it out yet.
Hay Jim; Hope ya had a Great Father's Day ! Hard to find the Right repellant ! I've used the Watkins Brand Lotion =Low percentage of Deet & Never had a proble with it yet ! If you can't find it up your way let me know & I'll send ya some ! Be Well ! ATB T God Bless
Hi Terry, our local drug store (Jean Coutu Pharmacy) sells Watkins products. I'm sure I can find it there. On a side note, my father was a Watkins door-to-door salesman for a little while back in the late 1960's in Hamilton, Ontario. But he wasn't much of a salesman because we ended up using most of his products :-) God bless ya' buddy!!
Thanks Jim, good review ! My wife bought me some of that stuff and it was pretty much useless for me. I use Repel (I buy it in new york, not in Canada) as it doesn't smell like deep woods off and has a high deet. I wish I had the old army issued bug juice that stuff was great.
Hahaha! They were SO BAD that I nearly took out my mosquito headnet tucked inside my bush hat. On video I think it would have seemed like a sign of weakness, so I didn't wear it, besides... I came out of that experience without a single itchy bite. The trick is to feel them on your exposed skin and get them before they get you :)
This was recorded the first week of June that year. Most of our mosquitoes are active in the Spring (cooler temperatures) or in the Summer evenings (again cooler temperatures). As soon as the frost is gone the mosquitoes (and blackflies) come out.
@@MuskratJim we have these god awful asian tiger mosquitoes they bite all day long during daylight hours but they don't really breed in mass till it's gets really hot. Wait till you encounter this invasive breed, they are relentless.
Yeah Jim I live in the west bottoms of Kansas City it's mostly concrete and asphalt down here there's not very much grass or Woods I invited Missouri River
P. S., I got a beaver on video at the arches at Fisher Lakes Rockwood Park a real animal surprise ( A young one it must have been relocated there at the park)
The video was only 17:54 long. If you meant the one that shows up on my left cheek at 13:30 and sticks around for a while, that mosquito was already dead. lol Yes they were so bad, that if I wasn't filming a video, I would have pulled out the head net that's stored in a pocket in my hat... it's with me ALL the time :)
NewLife - I carry a head net in a hidden pocket inside my bush hat :) I also have a bug jacket that my brother-in-law bought for himself but only wore once. He didn’t like it, so he gave it to me. I haven’t tried it yet.
Just a quick note Jim, how have you been, I'm still recovering from my Total Left Knee Replacement. its been about 6 weeks since I had the Surgery, I'm having a lot of discomfort but not a lot of pain. I have chronic Pain Syndromes Like Fibromyalgia so I have a high pain threshold. I start Outpatient PT on the 18th. I had it at home for about 4 weeks.
Hey Kristyanna! You sound like you're doing well :) As for me... well you saw me in the video, so I'm not doing too badly for and old cripple without his thyroid! I'm telling' ya, I'd gladly trade my appendix for a working thyroid!
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Many natural mosquito repellents actually work fairly well. "Fairly well" is translated to mean - much better than using nothing. However all of them that I have used and or made require frequent application. Frequent as in every 5 to 20 minutes
Of all the mosquitoes you saw buzzing around in the video (and I was out there for three hours) none of them bit me. Maybe it was the Natrapel, maybe I was just quick enough to shoo them away before they could find a good place to bite. I don't know if it works on blackflies, as I didn't see a single one that day. maybe they would have come out in a few more hours closer to dusk.
FYI: Right after filming, I put on more repellent for the walk home.
Well I too agree with you on the deet. i do not like using the deet on my skin. However there are times when the mosquittoes are ferrocious along with voracious appetites. At those times, natural plant based repellents just may not be enough.
I'm going to try one this weekend that has Picaridin in it. It's supposed to be effective for twelve hours between applications. We'll see :)
Hi from Barbados thanks so much for the review. I have tried almost everything, the personal device sounds good we just don't have them here. Unfortunately I don't own a credit card so I can't even order them online. Tracey ❤💛💚
Thank you…Good video ..wanted to try something new, because Deep Woods breaks me out in a major, hospital visit rash. Peace and Blessings PS: Oh and thanks for the tracking tips!
'tis the season for the little blighters. Thanks for the information, Jim. ATB from Pittsburgh - Laura.
I was disappointed with the results. I had high hopes, but my mosquitoes just laughed at it.... :)
Thanks for taking the time to demo this product for us. Too bad it didn't work so well.
Thanks for watching. I'm going to try another product this weekend, with picaridin (a.k.a. icaridin) as the active ingredient.
Happy Father's Day Jim! Great video, thanks for sharing! I do agree about DEET.
Thank you. I find the worst thing about lotions is climbing into a sleeping bag at night, all slimy and smelly... ugh!
If truth be told, nothing I have ever tried worked great. It is a numbers game. If deet keeps away 95% of mosquitoes , and there are a hundred around with in an hour, not bad. That is 5 bites per hour. But when there are 10's of thousands, you still end up getting a bad chewing. Thanks for the review.
Yes, I believe you're right. And for a lot of people just having them swarming and buzzing around your head is too much to bear. The best thing is to keep your skin covered as much as possible, so the only easy target they have is your face, then you can easily brush them away as they land and before they get to bite.
Unfortunately, I have not found anything that works as well as DEET. Thanks for sharing Jim
I was disappointed in the results I got as well.
Great test,Jim. Just walking the dog early in the morning gets me eaten alive. Thank you for the video
Thanks. I'm going to try this one next: Woods Inaridin Insect Repellent: www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/woods-icaridin-family-mosquito-repellent-0590880p.html#srp it is available from Canadian Tire, and it was "TESTED For Life In Canada"... We'll see :-)
It's supposed to last for 12 hours. You probably don't need anything that lasts that long just to walk your dog in the mornings.
Of all the mosquitoes you saw buzzing around in the video (and I was out there for three hours) none of them bit me. Maybe it was the Natrapel, maybe I was just quick enough to shoo them away before they could find a good place to bite.
I don't know if it works on blackflies. I didn't see any.
Hi Muskrat Jim, I have an old bottle of this but I think the formula may be different, it says Citronella as the key ingredient. It works for sure, perhaps not as well as the heavy duty Deet-based stuff though. I use another product called Beck-Olja Oil, it is Pine Tar based in a small glass bottle, it is made in Finland by a company called Wilma. Wilma makes a variety of natural products for the woodsman. This stuff works well, but has a strong Pine Tar smell that some do not like. I have noticed that when I have used it in hot, sunny weather it can burn my skin (I have fair skin though). All the Best to you WS.
I think there might be several formulations. The one I have, yours with citronella, and another fellow said his has permethrin in it. Mine has a refreshing woodsy smell to it, not perfume or smelly. Mine is easy to sweat off, so you have to re-apply every few hours, not six like the bottle says.
I would love to see what happens in the same environment or setting when you use Repel. Also since it doesn't contain Deet and one of the main ingredients is lemon eucalyptus unlike yourself, I spray it on my neck and behind my neck also letting some hit the sides of my face and the top of my forehead of course covering my eyes. When I'm in the woods I also wear a hat but I spray my hat very well as well as the rest of my body even with long sleeves on and my boots. That's right head to toe with a generous amount, front and back. I'm in Virginia and when it's hot and humid especially after rain mosquitoes can be brutal but Repel works extremely well and I can be outside for hours without the mosquitoes biting me once. When you're in woods that deep with that many mosquitoes when you spray only a little bit and gently pat your face and the back of your neck they're so aggressive they're going to look for any part that doesn't have the repellent. So just think about it if they come for your face and then try to hover around other parts of your body there still smelling the repellent there keeping the majority if not all of them away depending on how much you put on. Repeal is simply awesome. If I want to take a break to eat or just relax even though I sprayed my body and my hat I'll pump out a few shots all around me. Just sharing my technique and I hope this helps.
Great advice, thanks.
Thanks, and by the way awesome video. Look forward to more
That was a video from June. I've posted many since then :)
@@MuskratJim Muskrat Jim for President! :-)
That's a job I DEFINITELY don't want!
We're using Natrapel with 20% Picaridin. It works great on these down south swamp mosquitoes and I've yet to pick a tick off me. Picaridin is "supposed" to be safer than DEET and does not degrade synthetic material like DEET. We quit using DEET when it ate the non-leather parts of a high dollar pair of snake boots.
DEET melts plastics, so you have to watch it around your eye glasses.
Picaridin was only approved in Canada in 2012, so it's still fairly new around these parts. it is now called Icaridin up here, I don't know why they changed the name.
In my search I found it's here in my local Canadian Tire Store (Automotive/Sporting Goods/ Hardware store). I'll have to pick up a bottle this week!
Mosquito hell. I wouldn't stop for a meal either.
Chris Stone - yeah, it was really bad. I almost pulled out the mosquito net in my hat.
Hey Jim Thanks for your sacrifice. Looks like long sleeves & Noseeum hoods are the only alternative to deet.. Sure wish it wasn't so. Brian 78
I have one of those jackets from my brother-in-law. He bought it for himself when mowing the lawn, but found it too claustrophobic. So now it's mine, but I haven't tried it out yet.
I would also use a mosquito head mesh along the repellent
Carlos - I also have a head net that stores in a pocket inside my hat :)
Hay Jim; Hope ya had a Great Father's Day ! Hard to find the Right repellant ! I've used the Watkins Brand Lotion =Low percentage of Deet & Never had a proble with it yet ! If you can't find it up your way let me know & I'll send ya some ! Be Well ! ATB T God Bless
Hi Terry, our local drug store (Jean Coutu Pharmacy) sells Watkins products. I'm sure I can find it there.
On a side note, my father was a Watkins door-to-door salesman for a little while back in the late 1960's in Hamilton, Ontario. But he wasn't much of a salesman because we ended up using most of his products :-)
God bless ya' buddy!!
I carry the lil 1 with the carabiner on my pack ! They've been around for years. I can remember Mother using lots of their products !
Thank god we don’t have that many mosquitos
Northern Ontario is famous for its black flies. I don't know how effective this stuff is on black flies as I didn't see a single one that day.
Thanks Jim, good review ! My wife bought me some of that stuff and it was pretty much useless for me. I use Repel (I buy it in new york, not in Canada) as it doesn't smell like deep woods off and has a high deet. I wish I had the old army issued bug juice that stuff was great.
The Army stuff was probably 100% Deet...lol
I'm here on my comfy couch, and Scratching while watching this video.... mosquito Hades!
Hahaha! They were SO BAD that I nearly took out my mosquito headnet tucked inside my bush hat. On video I think it would have seemed like a sign of weakness, so I didn't wear it, besides... I came out of that experience without a single itchy bite. The trick is to feel them on your exposed skin and get them before they get you :)
Huh? He had a sweater and t shirt on what's the temperature? Seems to cold to breed mosquitoes? At least not the summer type of mosquitoes we have.
This was recorded the first week of June that year. Most of our mosquitoes are active in the Spring (cooler temperatures) or in the Summer evenings (again cooler temperatures). As soon as the frost is gone the mosquitoes (and blackflies) come out.
@@MuskratJim we have these god awful asian tiger mosquitoes they bite all day long during daylight hours but they don't really breed in mass till it's gets really hot. Wait till you encounter this invasive breed, they are relentless.
😸🚬 I barbecued last night and how to spot light out never seen one mosquito thanks for the view Kansas City Missouri
Wow.... no mosquitoes? The only time I have no mosquitoes is when I have a foot of snow on the ground... hahahaha!
Yeah Jim I live in the west bottoms of Kansas City it's mostly concrete and asphalt down here there's not very much grass or Woods I invited Missouri River
I have the Missouri River that's the only thing that really collects mosquitoes
Ah, city life... I used to live in cities when I was younger.
Worth the try Jim but Deet is hard to beat.
Yes, it certainly is...
Mosquitoes and biting flies can be terrible.
P. S., I got a beaver on video at the arches at Fisher Lakes Rockwood Park a real animal surprise ( A young one it must have been relocated there at the park)
Cool !!!!
It will be really cool to see where it makes a beaver house.
Not much enjoyment even in the nicest environment with mosquitos or flies biting at ya... hope you find some good days to enjoy!
Ever Changing Me - I’m sure I’ll find some time without those little nasties!! Thanks for watching!
At 17:55 I wanted to smack that skeeter on your face!!! Whew!!! I thought the skeeters were thick around here but you have them worse I think.
The video was only 17:54 long. If you meant the one that shows up on my left cheek at 13:30 and sticks around for a while, that mosquito was already dead. lol
Yes they were so bad, that if I wasn't filming a video, I would have pulled out the head net that's stored in a pocket in my hat... it's with me ALL the time :)
Muskrat Jim - Ha! Sorry! When I left the comment, 17:55 was on the timer! Even if it was dead, I still wanted to flick it off of your face! LOL!!!
Hahahahha!
Thanks for the biteing exposee , hee hee,, These days, for littl weight and cost I use head nets and , mosy jackets.. Thanks , Muskrat Jim
NewLife - I carry a head net in a hidden pocket inside my bush hat :)
I also have a bug jacket that my brother-in-law bought for himself but only wore once. He didn’t like it, so he gave it to me. I haven’t tried it yet.
Brilliant Idea , The Hat Pocket...
Nothing replaces deet....or a Thermacell!
...or mosquito netting :)
Muskrat Jim I find netting too hot and somewhat air restricting. But many like it.
Just a quick note Jim, how have you been, I'm still recovering from my Total Left Knee Replacement. its been about 6 weeks since I had the Surgery, I'm having a lot of discomfort but not a lot of pain. I have chronic Pain Syndromes Like Fibromyalgia so I have a high pain threshold. I start Outpatient PT on the 18th. I had it at home for about 4 weeks.
Hey Kristyanna! You sound like you're doing well :)
As for me... well you saw me in the video, so I'm not doing too badly for and old cripple without his thyroid! I'm telling' ya, I'd gladly trade my appendix for a working thyroid!
Wow.. they were pretty thick.
Thanks for the video
I was wishing I had a big old bullfrog sitting on my head to catch all those mosquitoes!
That would be awesome!