Table 1. Repellent products used in this study.
Four commercial products with four different active ingredients were chosen. The protectiontimes were taken from the label and refer to skin applications. Insect repellency of thesespecific products has been proven in several studies.
Commercial product | Active ingredient | % Active ingredient | Protection time (hrs) | Citations |
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Ben’s® Tick and Insect Repellent | DEET | 98.11 | 10 | Brown & Hebert (1997) |
REPEL® Plant-Based Lemon Eucalyptus Insect Repellent | PMD | 30.00 | 6 | Rodriguez et al. (2015) |
SAWER® Premium Insect Repellent 20% Picaridin | Picaridin | 20.00 | 14 | Rodriguez et al. (2017) |
AVON Skin-So-Soft Bug Guard plus IR3535 EXPEDITIONTM | IR3535 | 19.60 | 8 | Rodriguez et al. (2017) |