Skin So Soft

[JIMCCS]

Just back from Midgie/Bandy central and have got to say about Skin So Soft..... :applause

[Darwin]

We use it to (southern states anyway) to keep off  the ticks & chiggers, works a treat.   
Just wish it was unscented and still worked... 

[Inchlaggan]

It's the scent that does it!, But I really wonder how you get away with that in the Southern States! California, possibly!

[shanksi]

Come on Don you know you like all the lingering looks you get from the cowboys. :gay4

Ian

[Darwin]

Yea I figured it was the scent that did the trick.  SSS is widely used for this purpose and I would wager that more men use it than women.  :shock:
Ian, I don't have any issues with gay people.   :tongue2

[burnie]

Wouldn't go night fishing for Sea trout without a good squirt of the SSS,works for me.

[Darwin]

I have never lived where ticks on humans was an issue so I can't speak to that.  I have been eaten up with chiggers once, used SSS every time I was in the same area or situation and not had a problem.
I did a bit of snooping around and I have not found a scientific study to support any claims past 10 minutes that SSS is useful for insects...   so I don't know anymore...  :?   :worried

Seems deet and IR3535 are two of the more popular and respected. 
This doc is short and easy reading on the subject.
http://www.ct.gov/caes/lib/caes/documents/publications/fact_sheets/tickbiteprevention05.pdf

[Buanán]

I don't rate it. It works for a time and then you have to apply more. Being a sweater I find it doesn't last long on me. I tend not to use anything and tend to keep covered. I don't wash my face when heading up the hill and try to keep to the breeze, not washing the face I find more effective than SSS, I may not smell as nice mind. 

The best lochs tend to be midgie holes so I do have occasion to resort to repellants. I use the old jungle formula when I absolutely have no other choice, the old formula with lashings of DEET. I've been using the same bottle for 15 years or so and I still have a little left that'll do me a few more years. 

There was a bog murttle oil based product that work very well, but the company went bust as this was lunched around the same time as SSS became popular. Pity as it was fantastic and ticked all the boxes on the safe product list.

[Otter Spotter]

SSS works but it mings and the taste of it is brutal e.g. try eating a bag of crisps post application!

We did a bit of a test at Torridon at the weekend and Stop Bite the bog myrtle repellent is easily as good doesnt smell as bad and dries on to the skin rather than the greasy felling you get with SSS. I also have a hunch that SSS is not so good for leaders as I always have problems tying knots after using it the nylon / flouro seems to go brittle, but it could just be my fat fingers 

Meant to say here's the link http://www.stopbite.com/

[Fishtales]

Get the oil and make up your own.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bog-Myrtle-Essential-Oil-10ml/dp/B004613MEK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339407763&sr=8-1