Your Skin is Important

• Skin Care
• Caring For Your Skin Through The Seasons
• Crow's feet: The cause and the cure
• Insect Repellant and skin care
• Keeping the skin soft: Not just for girls
• Preventing Acne
• Steambaths, Saunas: Good or Bad
• The cause of dry itchy skin
• The skin of your feet
• Treating Acne
• Your Skin and the Sun

• Wrinkles
• A Quick Look on Wrinkles
• Does stress cause wrinkles?
• Facial excercises and wrinkles
• How do we get wrinkles?
• How to combat crows feet
• How to prevent wrinkles
• How to slow down the process of getting wrinkles
• Laser surgery and wrinkles
• Natural remedies for wrinkles
• Remove wrinkles with botox
• What exactly is in wrinkle creams?

• Network
• Stretch Marks

Insect Repellant and skin care

If you have ever lived or visited the swamps of the deep south, you have likely encountered some modicum of annoying flying bugs that buzz in your ears and chew through your skin to siphon your blood. These hated insects have spawned an entire industry of companies and corporations based on the production and manufacture of insect repellents, bug zappers and other bug related items for the facilitation of the user's comfort. While the majority of these repellents are effective on some types of bugs, many are not well known for being gentle on the skin.

Many remedies have been concocted for the combating of flying bugs like mosquitoes and gnats, from prehistoric times on through the modern age. One of the most effective methods is the use of the smudge pot, slowly burning ultra smoky fires that are carried smoldering in pots to ward off mosquitoes. These pots were so popular through the ages that they were utilized everywhere that flying bugs were considered a nuisance and a problem, or otherwise affected the comfort of the people in the area. Today, the smudge pot still sees occasional use with people who are trying to ward bugs away from a large area that can't simply be protected by zappers or repellents.

The successor of the smudge pots is the citronella candle, which accomplishes much the same effect as the smudge pots, with the added ingredient of citronella, which is non toxic. Citronella candles, tiki torches and other citronella based products have been phenomenally successful in the years since it's invention, being a simple and straightforward way of fighting insect infestations in a large area. Simply setting the candles and torches out and lighting them is an extremely easy and painless method of reducing the number of mosquitoes in the area and the citronella itself exudes a pleasant odor when burned.

While smudge pots and candles might be suitable for certain applications, the true king of effective insect repellent and control is bug spray with the chemical ingredient DEET in it. The use of bug spray applied to the body can reduce the attacks of mosquitoes to almost nothing and one application lasts quite some time, even resisting the effects of sweat on the repellent. The ubiquitous green can of insect repellent is one of the most popular choices of bug repellents on the market, beating out citronella and even cosmetic products, such as Avon's Skin So Soft, as the best insect repellent available.

But with the insect repellent comes skin damage. The use of smoky smudge pots and citronella cause minor damage, but this damage is mitigated by the fact that the user is rarely blanketed by smoke in enough volume to cause skin damage. The use of bug spray, however, is very bad for the skin and dries it out very quickly.

The simple solution to this problem is applying the bug spray to the sleeves and pants of your garments, rather than the skin. If it is necessary to apply the repellent to the skin, wash immediately afterwards and apply lotion.