Dengue Fever Supplies - Products & Stores

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More accurately, Avon reps flat-out lied to consumers and pushed their "Skin So Soft" placebo-only-effect cream onto unsuspecting customers and when Consumer Reports called them on it, they started releasing a "Skin So Soft with insect repellent" which Consumer Reports and New England Journal of Medicine tested and found it wasn't much better.

From Snopes:

"For decades rumor has held that Skin-So-Soft Bath Oil is an effective counter to mosquitoes, yet a 1993 Consumer Reports analysis found it ineffective for that purpose. Because so many people were buying the product for its purported mosquito combating properties, in 1994 Avon added a non-DEET repellent and a sunscreen to the popular bath oil and began marketing the new concoction as Avon Skin-So-Soft Bug Guard Repellent. Avon disputes the 2002 results posted in the New England Journal of Medicine study, claiming its Bug Guard Repellent works for three hours, not the 10.3 minutes for its Bug Guard Repellent and the 22.9 minutes for its Bug Guard Repellent Plus the study found, but a 2003 Consumer Reports analysis found the Skin-So-Soft repellent deterred mosquitoes for only one hour."

When I was in Alaska we were all using 99% deet and pyrethrins. I'm guessing somebody fed the Avon reps to the bears.