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bellero said:
The Canadian army is now using a product called Ultrathon made by 3M. I still have a few tubes at home from my last deployment but this stuff is also available in stores. It's very efficient as it contains 34% Deet.
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Have some Ultrathon I picked up in the US. It is deet, but it's in a controlled release form so lasts a very long time..

When looking at various brands, the are ALL THE SAME, the only difference is the percentage of DEET, nothing else matters (except for Ultrathon which is time release). Go for whichever has the highest percentage.

Also what works extremely well is treating your cloths with Permethrin. It is a permanent insecticide that is still effective through about 10 washings. However, not available in Canada..... but everywhere in the US.

Haven't done it yet, but going to try diluting concentrated permethrin insecticide down to the same 0.5 to 0.7% of the commercial clothing products, and soaking some cloths in it. Also works well to treat socks and spray it on shoes. It keeps ticks from climbing up socks and pants.

I used permethrin treated cloths and Ultrathon recently when in Africa in a malaria area. They had several very nasty strains of malaria in the area, which hospitalized several expats, and even killed one in a couple days.

bellero said:
How much percentage of deet as an ingredient is there actually in DEET?
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DEET is the active ingredient, it is an abbreviation of the chemical name: N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide.

Same as in a previous post, we also still have some lotion (it's a yellowish oily substance) that's 95% or 98% DEET. Current maximum percentage of DEET in products is limited to around 30% to 34%.
 
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Whisshkey.......no mind.........no matter...........

Doesn't matter what the heck I splash on, the nipp'in winged dasterds
find me.
Must be me gewd looks they are after.....
 
Canadian health protection branch limits the concentration of DEET to 30% in canada.... anything above 30% doesn't really make any significant differences in efficacy. That being said, I still have some 100% Deet that I brought in from the United States some years ago, and it actually dissolves bugs on contact..... thats gotta be worth something!
 
flyrrad said:
Canadian health protection branch limits the concentration of DEET to 30% in canada.... anything above 30% doesn't really make any significant differences in efficacy. That being said, I still have some 100% Deet that I brought in from the United States some years ago, and it actually dissolves bugs on contact..... thats gotta be worth something!
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The 100% (it's actually 95%) is still available in the US, but UltraThon works better over the course of a full day. I like spray cans because they're easier to apply.
 
Again with the Deet.

If you have any friends traveling into the US that will bring you back the near pure stuff, so much the better. Same price per bottle, or less than, what the retail price here is for the watered down stuff.

Look at it this way. You can make about 4 times the amount by cutting it with rubbing alcohol or water, if 30 percent really is the maximum efficacy.

Try to keep the stuff away from painted items, fishing line, or plastic. :D

Cheers
Trev
 
Well - Way back when I worked in the woods for a living, I used to use a product called Old Woodsman. As far as I could tell, it was creosote, and it worked very well. However, somewhere along the way it was declared to be carcinogenic, and went off the market. Too bad, real men would still have bought it...
 
Just buy the repellant with the highest amount of active DEET.

I like a spray for my clothing and hat and a liquid for the skin if they are really bad.

After decades of using DEET I try not to put it on my skin anymore and use physical barriers like, head nets, bug jackets etc.
 
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