non-DEET Insect Repellents
6 01 2007Just found this great Medical Journal study of insect repellents. According to the study, DEET is the true Rambo of the insect repellent industry, and the higher DEET concentration, the better. However, they do try some natural/herbal products and two of them rank very well IMHO. They are Bite Blocker (soybean-oil-based), and lemon-eucalyptus-oil-based (Repel makes one) products. We are going to field test these.
Here’s the link to the study:
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/347/1/13
I also downloaded the pdf, you can get it here





