This month Mid Brain reports on new cosmetic science stories while the Left and Right Brains take time off to work on the new Beauty Brains book.
Mid Brain reports:
We’ve blogged before about using Avon Skin So Soft as a mosquito repellent and why nothing can beat DEET, the active in OFF! But recently researchers have discovered several new super anti-mosquito ingredients. In fact, these new chemicals work up to three times longer than DEET and they don’t have the same sticky coating on your skin.
Here’s the catch: the regulations that control how new chemicals are brought to market may prevent these new ingredients from ever reaching our store shelves. You can read all about the buggy controversy at ScienceDaily.com. It’s especially interesting to see how the US Army was involved in the research.
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The best thing I’ve found to repel mosquitoes — even better than commercial repellants — is rubbing crushed up beauty berry leaves on my skin. That stuff is amazing and grows all over the southeast U.S.!
Once I rubbed my arms with it in the morning but forgot to rub my legs. That night my legs were COVERED with mosquitoes despite repeated sprayings of OFF (which I didn’t need to spray on my arms). The next day, I had maybe one bite on my arms but my legs were covered so badly with bites that there was more red than white. It looked like I had some horrible disease!
Fortunately, I found that crushed lemon balm worked VERY well to remove the itch. I had tried baking soda and several OTC meds the local pharmacist recommended but they didn’t even touch it and I was having problems sleeping — or doing anything productive — because it itched so much.
I’m not one that believes that natural is necessarily better, but I definitely recommend giving these things a try and would love to see more scientific research on them.