DEET Insect Repellents

Video Transcript

"One of the most effective methods of repelling mosquitoes is deet. A lot of people are afraid of deet, because it does melt plastic. You would not want to use deet with, if you're going to be handling fishing line, you don't want to spray it on mosquito netting. You don't want to put it on, if you have a plastic or a rubberized watch band. But, deet has been around for 50 years, and it has never killed anybody, it's never made anybody seriously ill. The only possible issue with deet is, you might get a little skin irritation if you are allergic to it. But, deet is the most effective method of repelling mosquitoes. Deet, comes in many, many different formats and many, many different concentrations. You can go from 100 percent deet, which is really about 97 percent deet, with either the Ben's or the Sawyer Products Maxi Deet. You have controlled release deet products which is a polymer encapsulated deet molecule, so it wears off at different times during the application. One application of this particular product will last 8 to 12 hours. You also have a deet product here, and here, which includes an additional chemical, which takes care of no-see-ums and biting flies. And then, you have wipes. So, those are the various types of deet that you can use, and when you combine deet with permethrin on your clothing, it's pretty much bulletproof protection against insects."