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Some repellents are made with essential oils instead of chemicals. Oils like lemon eucalyptus, lavender, peppermint, citronella, and tea tree are effective at repelling mosquitos. These oils repel ...

If you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes and ticks—which seem to be everywhere this year—you might need to enlist a heavy-hitter. Insect experts reach for one thing: permethrin. Here’s what to ...

If you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes and ticks—which seem to be everywhere this year—you might need to enlist a heavy-hitter. Insect experts reach for one thing: permethrin. Here ...

Credit - Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Images: Likanaris, jonnysek/Getty Images via Canva) If you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes and ticks—which seem to be everywhere this year—you ...

Here’s a smart way to fight ticks, according to a tick expert Spray shoes with permethrin, an insecticide, once a month, says public health entomologist Thomas Mather, who goes by the nickname ...

Permethrin turns the insect away after landing on your clothing or it immediately goes to work killing it. Permethrin-based treatments are effective. The US Army, for example, treats uniforms with it.

Connally recommends using a permethrin-based spray for an additional degree of protection outdoors. She likes Ranger Ready’s products because they’re unscented and shouldn’t feel noticeable ...

Starting in 2012, the Army began issuing permethrin-treated combat uniforms to prevent soldiers from getting insect-borne diseases like malaria, West Nile virus, Lyme disease and the Zika virus.