Mosquito repellent

[scout123]

What do you use for mosquito repellent for your DC? Has anyone used the wipes from One Step Ahead. I was thinking of ordering those. Mosquito feast on me and my DH so I'm preparing for the summer!
Thanks,
Angie

[american_mama]

No experience with the wipes, but I did ask a question last summer about repellent.
http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=37&topic_id=236525&mesg_id=236525&listing_type=search
I had little success with a natural product containing mostly citronella oil, so I then bought a Cutter Advanced, which uses something called Picaridin rather than DEET. In whatever research I did then, I also read about natural repellents with neem tree oil, which I had otherwise never heard of.

Turns out there are several other threads too:

http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=37&topic_id=98924&mesg_id=98924&listing_type=search

http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=37&topic_id=16110&mesg_id=16110&listing_type=search

[mommyj_2]

I had success with the Caifornia Baby repellent. I'm normally a mosquito magnet, and this stuff worked on me. It wore off kind of quickly, so I had to reapply it every few hours, but it was totally worth it.

[kjezierski]

Avon has a Skin so Soft product that we use. It works better than other repellent I've used (on me) that contains DEET.

Kathleen
Mommy to Alex
04/29/04

[jesseandgrace]

I would avoid DEET, I think it has its purpose in countries that have malaria I would rather take my risk with DEET, but otherwise I think it is pretty dangerous (sorry, can't remember anywhere I read about it, but that was the general feeling I got after looking into it). I saw some sort of a patch that says it is all natural in the Leabs and Bounds catalog, but I've never tried it. My dh, ds, and dd have the same problem as you guys.