Att'n Turkey hunters: Found a Canadian source for 0.50% Permethrin spray for clothes

Alon

Alon

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Ticks are everywhere and Lyme disease could mess you up for life.
It's advertised "for military only" but it seems like it's the same stuff that the US is selling to treat clothing. 0.5% Permethrin + the benzo preservative just like that yellow Sawyer's bottle.

Does anyone have any experience with this specific product?

https://www.sasonline.ca/mosquito-shield-clothing-and-netting-treatment-002.html?fbclid=IwAR0S15SE2NPfkpUQpaW975WFw3CEKO3CkkyXP65U48OTblo8UDBQPdApkJM
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I have no experience with that particular product, but it looks like exactly what I need for a trip to Mozambique in July. Ticks are a human health problem in many parts of the world, so I'm glad that there finally seems to be a Canadian sold clothing treatment available here like there is in other countries.
Last time I was in Zimbabwe I used a product sold here for horses. It stank of citronella but worked. I watched a big tick crawl up my leg and try to latch on through my pant leg. It bit, very briefly but couldn't continue the attack because my clothes were soaked in permethrin the week before.
 
The local UFA sells “Pounce” insecticide at 384g/liter concentration of permethrin which works out to 38% . You can dilute to the desired concentration for your specific requirements. Kills ticks and pretty much everything that either crawls or flies. Just FYI.

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I make my own. You can buy pure permethrin from a compounding pharmacy, it was like $120 last time I bought some, but it'll make up like 20L of 0.5% for that price. I just mix it up in a little 5L sprayer.

Not every pharmacy can get it, only compounding ones, and not every compounding pharmacy will be willing to get it for you (I had to call a few) but once I found a place willing to get it for me it was super easy.
 
Every time I make a trip down south I pick up a few bottles of Sawyer spray. Otherwise, if I'm out I'll buy Garden+ Protector concentrate and dilute.
 
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