Two of four repellents we’ve tested with 15 percent deet have also earned our recommendation.įour OLE products and four with picaridin also earn our recommendation, providing 5 or more hours of protection. In CR’s testing, the products that provide the longest-lasting protection have one of three active ingredients: deet, oil of lemon eucalyptus (OLE), or picaridin.ĭeet products earn most of our top scores, with concentrations of 25 to 30 percent providing the most reliable and longest-lasting protection-repelling mosquitoes for longer than 6½ hours for some products we tested. Showering and performing tick checks soon after coming in from wooded or otherwise tick-heavy areas has been shown to help reduce the chances of catching a tick-borne disease, so help your kids check themselves for attached ticks. If you’re going hiking or into the woods or tall grasses, make sure they also tuck shirts into pants, wear closed-toe shoes, and tuck pants into long socks to help keep ticks from biting. If you’re going to be in an area where there may be a lot of mosquitoes, have kids wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants. (Read more about anti-tick yard modifications you can make.) To make the area less hospitable to ticks, clean up any dead leaves or overgrown brush, and mow long grasses.
A couple of steps that don’t involve repellents can help discourage bug-to-kid contact in the first place, so you can start with these.įor instance, get rid of any standing water in your yard, Asta says, and remove receptacles where water can collect and allow mosquitoes to breed-such as empty buckets, bird baths, and unused tires.
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