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Re: off chiggers?

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Skin so soft actually comes in 2 smells, the original and a more manly
woodsy kind of smell (though I actually like the woodsy one best for me
too)  Works great, though I'm lucky we don't have buffalo gnats here.

kim zone 9, so cal

Martha Wells wrote:
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> That doesn't sound like chiggers. Those little 'redbugs' like to be in
> close quarters. around the elastic waistband of your undies, top of your
> sock line, etc.
> That sounds a lot like buffalo gnats to me.
> Can't really see the little gnats well, until you've been bitten. They do
> affect your lymph system, especially if you've been bitten around the head
> and throat. Not much you can do about them except the guys who work
> outdoors all summer around here swear by Avon's Skin So Soft. They dilute
> it with water a little to tone down the 'ladylike' smell.
> Also I've been seeing TV commercials that compare an Off skin spray to SOS
> for bug repellant qualities.
> And you're not a baby for asking!  I've seen grown men cringe when they had
> to crawl up an ele pole, or get in a man-lift, knowing the air is full of
> those little 'noseeum' meanies!
> martha
> 
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