0.5% Permethrin Spray for Clothes and Outdoor Gear - Permethrin Insect & Tick Repellent - Scent Zero, 8 Fl Oz.

A lot of marketing scares folks into being concerned about "chemicals" these days, resulting in the use of insect repellents that are "plant based" but don't actually do anything - seriously, go look up efficacy studies, the essential oil scented products are solidly ineffective at preventing mosquito or tick bites. With the rise of both mosquito-borne diseases (ZIKA, etc) and tick-borne concerns (nobody wants that meat allergy, let alone Lyme), finding a better way to keep yourself safe without causing an environmental disaster is super important. If you're able to plan ahead, this stuff is the answer. The bottle says this amount of product will cover 7 full outfits, and that's thoroughly true. I hung a clothesline in the back yard and sprayed a week's worth of outdoors clothes + my boots and had maybe 1/6 of the bottle left over. The pump spray was effective at creating a broad mist without splatters or getting clogged up. Coming out of the bottle, this product has a vague plasticky bitter odor that 100% vanished when the clothes were dry - seriously, balling up the shirt to give it a thorough sniff the next morning resulted in it just smelling like clean laundry, ZERO lingering odor. It also did not leave any residue on clothes or the soft suede outers of my boots - no greasy feel to the touch, no visible change in color or texture. But more important than how much was in the bottle or how it smelled is whether it worked, and that is a resounding YES. Tromping through south TX swamps in search of amazing wildlife yielded me no more than a mosquito bite on the back of one hand and the edge of one ear, places not covered by my permethrin-shielded clothes. No matter how hot & sweaty you get, and how hard it rains (both plentiful on this trip), this stuff doesn't wash off, and keeps working great through a couple runs in the washing machine. Even if you're the kind of person who packs light and does laundry halfway through a trip, you will still be protected from insects without needing to re-apply. And since it bonds to the clothing fabric and doesn't sweat/rinse off, it's not being deposited into nature as you go, so you are not causing any environmental harm by using this. The only catch is that you need to prep your clothes at least 6 hours before, and ideally at least the day before - you spray until your clothes are lightly damp then leave it to dry, so you can't spritz today's shirt 10 minutes before you head out the door. Highly recommended, will purchase again for any upcoming wildlife trip.

Really WORKS Well! Spray is a fine mist that covers well. There is no odor and no sticky-slimy residue on your skin. I spray in the early morning as I head out to pick tomatoes, or weed eat and I get NO BITES! I may have to repeat late afternoon to maintain the effectiveness, but we can sit on the front porch until and including evening darkness (8-9 PM EST) with no critters nibbles. Will reorder to have excess for fall firepit gatherings!!

Treated my outdoor pants with this to prevent ticks, treated my wife and daughters pants as well. It does the job, amount of ticks found after a day out in the woods was drama-tick-ally reduced!

Work well for yardwork clothes.

it really works.

Great product for bugs puts them on flight

Great product! We used it on a recent hike in heavily tick infested fields -- we came out clean, others in the group were covered.

Es un producto que cumple lo que promete,no causa problemas de alergia si lo usas correctamente un10/10