Our family lives on a farm, and we love to be outdoors working in the garden or taking a walk as the sun sets, but pesky mosquitoes can be troublesome without using an insect deterrent. Many commercial insect repellents contain undesirable ingredients, such as DEET.1 And, many, if not most, insect repellents smell so undesirable that not only do the insects stay away, but we don’t even care to be around ourselves!
If you’d like to enjoy the outdoors and not smell like citronella bug repellent, our No Bites! blend of more than thirty 100% high-quality essential oils in a coconut oil base may be a welcome addition to your summer. It has a pleasant, mild lemon-vanilla aroma and is the most effective anti-mosquito blend we’ve ever used. As a bonus, it also deters the dreaded chigger.
Anecdotal testimonies report that No Bites! is useful for avoiding biting gnats, biting flies, mosquitoes, and chiggers. Some report this is an effective tick deterrent when they add 2mL Geranium to 1oz No Bites! It has become very popular, for which we are very thankful.
No Bites! is the best! We are camping this week, and I was getting bitten by flies and some other sort of screaming meany! I put on some No Bites! and it stopped immediately and lasted the rest of the evening! - Mary Anne
I love the “No Bites!” blend. I worked in the garden, and they came near me but not on me! Great stuff. I’m getting more for my boys who are going on a week-long camping trip. - Gretchen
As with any product, what works well for many will not work well for everyone. We have posted every testimony - the good and the bad - so you can decide if you’d like to give it a try.
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We hope everyone has a wonderful and safe summer.
Linda and the Hopewell crew
DEET: “Workers at a national park who used insect repellents or lotions containing DEET repeatedly during the summer season complained more often of chest pain or wheezing, muscle cramping, skin rashes and blisters, dizziness, disorientation, and difficulty concentrating than workers who used the products less often or did not use them at all. Because exposure was inferred only from survey responses, these findings should be interpreted with caution. A study of workers in Sweden found that those who used insect repellents for 115 days or longer had an increased risk of developing testicular cancer. However, due to deficiencies in the study, the results were inconclusive. Long-term studies in which dogs, rats, and mice were given DEET orally or in which liquid DEET was applied to the skin of mice and rabbits did not find an increase in tumors in the animals.” TOXICOLOGICAL PROFILE FOR DEET (N,N-DIETHYL-META-TOLUAMIDE) by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
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