In every family, in every group of friends, there's always going to be at least one unlucky person who is a mosquito magnet. Amongst my family members, that person is me. I've lost count of the number of times I've found myself scratching the half-dozen bites on my limbs while my dad sat next to me nonchalantly in the kitchen at home.
For the cost component, I calculated how much it would cost to use the mosquito repellent for eight hours-pretty much a full day. After I looked at all the average costs, I could see a problem-there was one clear outlier. I would advise mosquito patches as a cherry on top to your main arsenal of mosquito repellent products and not as the main weapon you're using to repel those pesky bugs.
A lot of mosquito patches use only natural ingredients to ensure they're safe for children, babies, and breastfeeding mothers or pregnant women. – Generally protect only a limited area around them, so you have to use several patches to protect your whole body 2. Mosquito lotions and creams On that note, some mosquito lotions and creams double up as an anti-itch solution in the unlikely event you get bitten by a mosquito anyway. So if you feel an angry itchy welt forming, just slap on even more of the same cream to both soothe the itch and repel other mosquitoes from having a go at you.
Mosquito sprays usually come in an aluminium can or plastic bottle with a spray nozzle. Your job is to spray the repellent they contain directly onto your skin or clothing — or both, as I like to do. In fact, a lot of the mosquito repellent sprays on our shelves are au naturale — just like the mosquito patches. They're made with natural ingredients like citronella, lemongrass, and peppermint oil, which as a bonus also create a fairly okay-smelling cocktail of anti-mozzie perfume for you to spray on yourself .
Speaking of sunscreens, it's worth noting that some sprays can also double up to offer UV protection. Alobaby has a 2-in-1 UV and Outdoor Mist spray that serves as both an insect repellent and a waterproof SPF15 sunscreen, which is the minimum sun protection level you should go for.$6 to $22 per 100ml, each providing 8 to 12 hours of protection. Typically, consumer spray bottles dispense about 0.1ml to 0.2ml per spray, so I’m assuming each spray is 1.15ml and you use 8 sprays each time .
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