moondog

I've never done a side by side comparison with Western brands like "Off", but it seems to work pretty well. While I normally prefer clothing to skin, since I often wear shorts and a tee shirt in the summer, calves and forearms arms typically warrant direct skin treatment.

LapLap

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MrLapLap’s eczema is pretty severe (he can’t use the fingerprint machines at the airports and he only needs to show staff his hands for them to see for themselves it isn’t an option). Putting unknown lotions right onto his skin has more immediate risks for him than it would for me.

Nevertheless, he’ll probably pick up something in the U.K. for direct application that he’s used before.

This “floral water” seemed like an ideal bolster deterrent if he could wear it on an outer layer too (he’ll be fine sticking to long sleeves and trousers.) And I’m also interested in him bringing some back as my daughter and I are both mozzie magnets and our summers in Spain always bring this challenge; constant direct application isn’t ideal over 5-6 weeks, so it would be nice to find a way to reduce it with a deterrent that is put on clothing.

Hoyaheel

How does permethrin spray on your clothing work for your husband? We use something like this (husband is a tick magnet and works outside quite a bit - we have something like this but in bulk ;-)
https://sawyer.com/products/permethr...ent-treatment/

LapLap

Honestly don’t know. He’s been based in London for years and most of the time he does travel mosquitoes aren’t really an issue.
Anyway, I have spurred him into making sure that whatever it was that he got for himself for his Dhaka trip in Feb 2016 is still in date.
Am looking at this “floral water” as an extra - both for him in Laoshan Forest Park and me and the kid in Alicante.

moondog

I forgot to mention hair as a good application area. It might mess up your hair do a bit, but at least it's not your face.

sinoflyer

The first two listed ingredients of my pictured floral water are ethyl alcohol and water. Hopefully, they won't trigger eczema, but each individual may react differently to the various other ingredients within. Personally, I apply the floral water directly on exposed skin. It evaporates quickly without much of a residue or stickiness, and it keeps mosquitoes away for the entire evening. On my last trip to China (last week), I discovered that the same manufacturer now offers the floral water in plastic spray bottles, and in several fragrances including mint and "spring flowers" (IIRC). Since I am already stocked for the upcoming summer, I'll have to try it next year to see how it compares to the "splash on" variety in the glass bottle.

Adding my own meaningless data point to why some people attract mosquitoes while others don't: When I was in college in Upstate New York, during the summers I often hiked in the Adirondacks, a place of thousands of lakes and millions of mosquitoes. My buddy, a cross-country runner with tanned skin and fuzzy but almost invisible body hair, never got bitten whereas I, the polar opposite -- a tofu-toned swimmer, was veritably a pot roast to the mosquitoes during their early evening feeding time.