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Summary: Permethrin is an insect repellent chemical that is often used to treat clothing by yourself. Learn how to use permethrin for treating clothes with tips from an outdoorsman in this free insect prevention video.
Steve Curtis has been involved in outdoor activities his entire life beginning with his upbringing in rural Tennessee. He has led scouting groups to Philmont, backpacked much of the...read more
"If you don't want to by the Buzz Off pretreated clothing, you can actually buy permethrin at your local outfitting store, including Bill Jackson's. You can treat this, your clothing that you all ready have at home. It?s very easy to treat. Basically it comes in a couple of different formats. It comes in a soak in, which you actually soak your clothes in. You hang them up to dry. Once they dry, your clothes are treated. It also comes in a spray format. It comes in the tick formula and also the permethrin formula. All though, these formulas are both the same. The tick formula was the original that was developed by the chemist. And I forget his name, but he developed this for ticks. It also applies to mosquitoes. A tip that you can take from this, that you do not see on the label, is once the clothing is dry, you can actually do it, iron the clothes. And the permetherin will bond to the fibers a little bit better. When you treat it yourself, you get about six to eight washings. As opposed to the twenty six washings you get from the factory. But it?s much less expensive to do it yourself. So this is basically bullet proof protection for your clothes. And it will insure that you do not get bit."