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The deal with Skin So Soft
How did a bath oil develop a reputation as an insect repellent? Avon’s Skin So Soft makes no repellent claims, and its ingredients—mineral oil and emollients—are purely cosmetic. But because it had so many fans, Consumer Reports tested the pump spray—in 1993—and found that it did not fend off mosquitoes at all.
Other Skin So Soft products are now marketed as repellents. One, Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus IR3535 Expedition, combines an insect repellent with sunscreen. But we think such products are a bad idea: Sunscreens should be applied liberally and often, so the combo could lead to unnecessarily high doses of the repellent.
We haven’t yet tested Avon’s stand-alone repellent, Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus Picaridin, but we plan to include it in our next round of testing. That product contains just 10 percent picaridin. In our tests of similar products, the two with 20 percent picaridin performed very well, and the one with 5 percent didn’t.
Find out what really works against bug bites, and learn how to get a pest-free backyard.
This article also appeared in the July 2015 issue of Consumer Reports magazine.
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