Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray
Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray is one of Avon's best-selling products. It leaves skin feeling soft after a bath or shower, but it also has a hidden secret. Although not marketed as such, this body spray is regarded by many as an effective insect repellent.
The 150ml bottle contains a specially formulated, pleasantly scented, non-greasy oil spray, which when applied after bathing or showering, absorbs into the skin quickly and locks in moisture.
Insect Repellent Properties
Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray has not actually been scientifically tested as an insect repellent and the evidence that it performs as one is mostly from consumers' word of mouth. However, a quick Google search reveals there are many people raving about this spray in forums and on consumer review websites as being indispensable when it comes to fighting off those pesky midges and mosquitoes.
In fact, some people report buying Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray purely for its insect repellent properties rather than for its skin moisturising ability, and even use it diluted on their horses (it's especially good for getting rid of Sweet Itch apparently) and other animals as a fly spray.
Avon has verified that Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray is very popular and often bought solely for use as an insect repellent. Even during the summer months in Scotland when the midge population is rife, the spray has been found to be effective. Mel Gibson and his film crew used it while filming Braveheart in Scotland, Scottish foresters use it, and Royal Marines guarding the nuclear base at Faslane on Scotland's west coast also use this spray. (Source: The Daily Telegraph)
As Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray isn't sold as an insect repellent, some theories have been put forward as to why it works so well in this capacity. One theory is that the oily film it forms on the skin hinders insects' ability to actually land on the skin and bite. The spray also contains citronella, which has proven natural insect repellent properties.
Advantages of Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray
The advantages of Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray are that it is DEET free, smells pleasantly of pine and amber, has no nasty chemically smells as do many other insect repellents, and it doubles up as a moisturiser (which of course was its original intended primary use).
Perhaps try it with caution and see what happens. Not all insect repellents work equally well for all people anyway because everyone is different, and if this spray does not repel the mosquitoes, at least it is still a pleasant moisturiser.
Avon has this to say about its reluctance to market Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray to the British public as an insect repellent: "We cannot do that because UK pharmaceutical laws ban us from doing so." (Source: Scotland on Sunday)
Despite all the hype about Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray working so well as an insect repellent, it is probably unwise to go trekking off to the jungle or to some other tropical insect-infested place with this as the only protection against mosquito bites. It would be especially unwise to rely on this spray alone if going to an area where there is a risk of catching an insect-borne infectious disease such as malaria.