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. 2021 Apr 21;9:e11138. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11138

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
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)