Source for Permethrin!

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For those who have been looking for this stuff, I found it! It turns out any compounding pharmacy can order the stuff for you. It comes in a 100g bottle at 100% concentration, and you have to buy the whole bottle which costs $80-something for the pharmacy, plus whatever they charge you for markup and shipping from the warehouse. It is a schedule 2 chemical, which means you can get it without a prescription but only compounding pharmacies can order it, not regular pharmacies.

Not everywhere will order it for you, I had to call a few places to find a compounding pharmacy that would order it for me, but they took my credit card over the phone and they should have it at the store in 2-3 days!

Here is the listing, complete with part # and any other info you might want.

https://pccarx.com/products/PERMETHRIN TECHNICAL (LIQUID)/30-3037/APIS-EXCIPIENTS

You WILL need to dilute this stuff. We are planning on making 10L of it with half the bottle, giving us a 0.5% solution. With that, we will dip our hunting clothes in it, ring them out, then hang to dry. You could also mix it up and use a sprayer to coat your clothes (which we're thinking about doing with our sleeping bags).
 
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FWIW tack shops usually have it premixed to 0.5% as a horse and cattle spray as it is approved for livestock use in Canada.

Canadian Tire also sells Wilson Pest Control at 0.25%

http s://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/wilson-home-pest-control-1-l-0593739p.html
 
Paul_T said:
FWIW tack shops usually have it premixed to 0.5% as a horse and cattle spray as it is approved for livestock use in Canada.

Canadian Tire also sells Wilson Pest Control at 0.25%

http s://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/wilson-home-pest-control-1-l-0593739p.html
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Any idea what it costs from a Tack shop? I paid $126 (taxes in) for 100g of it, which will make 20L of 0.5% solution. That works out to $6.30 a litre.
 
I have not bought any yet but I believe it was about 20-25 bucks tax in for a 1l bottle when I called to find out if they had some. Your price for bulk unmixed would be waaay better.

Here is an example:
htt p://www.brubachersharness.ca/contents/en-us/p5592.html

In bulk it's $19/l
htt p://www.brubachersharness.ca/contents/en-us/p5593.html
 
If you have a cat don't use permethrin. It won't survive. My ex wife's Persian cat came into contact with trace amounts after we treated our dog. 3 days in intensive care . That was a very expensive cat.
 
Tractor Supply sells Ultra Shield .50% for livestock. Spray it on your clothing let it dry. Have used it all year, and no ticks. I'm in Ontario.
 
Paul_T said:
I have not bought any yet but I believe it was about 20-25 bucks tax in for a 1l bottle when I called to find out if they had some. Your price for bulk unmixed would be waaay better.

Here is an example:
htt p://www.brubachersharness.ca/contents/en-us/p5592.html

In bulk it's $19/l
htt p://www.brubachersharness.ca/contents/en-us/p5593.html
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Jeez. Yeah, I'll keep going the pharmacy route!
 
Paul_T said:
FWIW tack shops usually have it premixed to 0.5% as a horse and cattle spray as it is approved for livestock use in Canada.

Canadian Tire also sells Wilson Pest Control at 0.25%

http s://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/wilson-home-pest-control-1-l-0593739p.html
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Suther said:
For those who have been looking for this stuff, I found it! It turns out any compounding pharmacy can order the stuff for you. It comes in a 100g bottle at 100% concentration, and you have to buy the whole bottle which costs $80-something for the pharmacy, plus whatever they charge you for markup and shipping from the warehouse. It is a schedule 2 chemical, which means you can get it without a prescription but only compounding pharmacies can order it, not regular pharmacies.

Not everywhere will order it for you, I had to call a few places to find a compounding pharmacy that would order it for me, but they took my credit card over the phone and they should have it at the store in 2-3 days!

Here is the listing, complete with part # and any other info you might want.

https://pccarx.com/products/PERMETHRIN TECHNICAL (LIQUID)/30-3037/APIS-EXCIPIENTS

You WILL need to dilute this stuff. We are planning on making 10L of it with half the bottle, giving us a 0.5% solution. With that, we will dip our hunting clothes in it, ring them out, then hang to dry. You could also mix it up and use a sprayer to coat your clothes (which we're thinking about doing with our sleeping bags).
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the sock said:
Tractor Supply sells Ultra Shield .50% for livestock. Spray it on your clothing let it dry. Have used it all year, and no ticks. I'm in Ontario.
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DBeato said:
I get a bottle for 15 bucks at urban nature store. Protector brand.
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Do you guys treat your clothing with Permethrin after every wash?
How thick do you spray it on?


Cheers
 
lanis said:
Do you guys treat your clothing with Permethrin after every wash?
How thick do you spray it on?


Cheers
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Shouldn't need it every wash. The Sawyer brand stuff available at Cabelas and Walmart stateside say its good for 6 weeks or 6 washes. Remy Warren (of Solo Hntr fame from youtube, and part of the Meat Eater family) said he reapplies about once a month during hunting season on his podcast (Ep 38 of Cutting the Distance), and Im pretty sure he uses the Sawyer stuff? If its soaked rather than sprayed its supposed to last longer, although I can't say how much longer. Hopefully someone with more experience can chime in, this will be my first time using the stuff.
 
Thanks for the info Suther. I had been buying mine in the states but that ain’t happening these days!
 
Geoman said:
Thanks for the info Suther. I had been buying mine in the states but that ain’t happening these days!
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Glad to help! We were looking into getting some from Cabelas or Walmart stateside, but this way turned out to be soooooo much cheaper. My buddies cousin lives in Point Roberts and works in Bellingham so she has to drive through Canada every day, and said buddy lives on the road to the border so we were going to get her to just drop it off on her way past, but we didn't have to deal with any of that.
 
British Columbia
In British Columbia (B.C.), currently identified risk areas for Lyme disease are:

Vancouver Island
Southern Mainland
Coast of British Columbia facing Vancouver Island
River valleys across the southern part of the province
The B.C. Ministry of Health has reported a plateau in the number of infected tick populations in the past decade. This contrasts to the spread seen in the rest of Canada. This is due to:

the western blacklegged ticks spread into B.C. much earlier than the blacklegged ticks found in central and eastern Canada
far fewer western blacklegged ticks being infected with the Lyme disease bacterium than blacklegged ticks found in central and eastern Canada
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https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/lyme-disease/risk-lyme-disease.html

A large portion of the southern half of the province has the risk of lyme it would seem. Its nothing compared to the map of Nova Scotia though! (the whole province is a risk area)
 
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