| Nomad Bugproof Clothing Treatment Permethrin 100ml |
 enlarge | Brand: Bugproof
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: £6.36
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 9191
ASIN: B000R2DQFW
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Features:
| • | Clothing Treatment | | • | Contact killer against mosquitoes and ticks | | • | Non-aerosol pump clothing spray, effective for 2 weeks, odourless after application | | • | Non-staining | | • | 100ml Spray |
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Product Description
Bugproof Clothing Treatment Nomad 100ml Contains: Permethrin 0.5%. Kills insects on contact. Treat your clothing with clothing treatment ( and apply 50% DEET to your skin for maximum protection ). One treatment lasts two weeks. One bottle treats one complete outfit of clothing. Clothing should not be re-treated for at least 2 weeks and must have been laundered at least once prior to re-treatment.
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Customer Reviews:
 excellent on mosquitos and bed lice July 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I recently used this on a trip to the DRC and found it fantastic to help me stop being bitten from mozzies. I used it with a deet spray and returned unscathed (well bite wise anyway, but thats another story!). It was easy to apply and the only downfall is that despite it saying 2 weeks before it needs reapplying, I found that some mozzies could sit on my shirt and then fly away even though it was only 10 days. Maybe it was to do with how much I sweated? But up until then, it worked great and so I simply retreated my outfit again. I also used it one night on questionable bedding in my hut which had bed lice (yuk). The spray looked like it took effect pretty slowly but the next night they were all dead and I could stop freakin out about things crawling on me.
 Dubious whether this works for ticks July 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After finding a few ticks on my dog and reading about the dangers of lyme Disease on dogs and humans I thought I better protect myself.
Permethrin, the active ingredient in this product, is well tested for efficiency against ticks so I was confident this product would help. Unlike other repellents this not only "repels" but actually kills ticks - as the manufacturers website states "It kills insects on contact.". I read somewhere that a tick walking 10cm along clothing with Permethrin in it would be enough to kill the tick. I also read on the internet that contact with a Permethrin treated clothing item would cause the tick to curl up and drop off - exactly what you want.
By co-incidence on the day the product arrived ( direct from Nomad the people who make it ) I also found another tick - it'd dropped off my dog and was on her mat - still live and very much kicking!
An ideal opportunity to see this product in action I thought! So having captured the tick and placed it in a dish I soaked some absorbent paper with this product. I waited for an hour for it to dry and then placed the tick on the paper.
The reaction I was expecting was:
1)The tick would find the paper very unpleasant to be on and would rapidly move away - maybe even curl up on contact
2)Within a few seconds of contact the tick would show signs of being unwell and shortly die
What I actually saw was:
1)Tick not in the least bothered by the Permethrin soaked paper
2)The tick did eventually die - around 3 or so hours later. After about an hour and a half I did notice it looking distinctly unwell - not able to move around properly. 3 hours is too long - it'd have left the fabric and attached to me long before 3 hours!
After seeing this lack of success I started to wonder if the product was working! Maybe it's more diluted than the bottle claims? Perhaps I had a faulty batch?
I contacted the Nomad Travel Store, where I purchased the product and also who are directly linked with the product, and asked them about my experience. 5 days and counting and still no reply.
I'm not a scientist so I can't test the actual product. Also it was just 1 tick so hardly an extensive test but my confidence is shaken in the product - I have ordered an alternative product made by Sawyer - unfortunately only available in America so a special import.
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