Like a forcefield against mosquitoes!
After seeing glowing recommendations online and hearing praise from coworkers who are also moms and grandmothers, I went ahead and got the Avon Skin-So-Soft Bug Guard. We were going to the in-laws for a birthday party, it was late summer, and the skeeters out where they are are VICIOUS. I know Zika hasn't really hit our part of the woods yet, but there are plenty of other diseases that mosquitoes are a vector for, and I get super itchy even with normal mosquito bites. I didn't want to find out how our 6 month old baby would react to the bites, either. So I slathered both myself and the baby with the lotion before we set foot outside for the party, and had a great time watching mosquitoes dive-bombing my daughter and bouncing off like a millimeter away as though there was a force field. I don't have the chemistry chops to know how this lotion works, but it does work! The only place I got bit was on my ring finger where--silly me--I hadn't taken off my wedding ring before applying the lotion, so there was a tiny chink in my armor. The baby got off bite-free. My husband, who usually never gets bitten, was getting eaten alive and finally caved and let me put lotion on his arms and neck too, after which the mosquitoes just flew around him.<br /><br />tl;dr: This stuff smells great, works great, and is gentle enough for even delicate baby skin. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5 stars