All Natural Insect Repellant Launches

With the nastie midgies and other biting horrors massing for summer, we reckon you might be interested in DEETfree a new alternative to repellants which contain DEET as an active ingredient.

DEET, as you may be aware, is pretty unpleasant stuff and there is some evidence suggesting that it can have side effects including skin irritation and worse. At the very least it smells quite unpleasant and needs to be used carefully, particularly in high concentrations.

DEETfree, predicatably, doesn't contain any DEET or, indeed, Citronella, the most commonly used natural alternative. Instead it uses 100 per-cent natural ingredients including esential oils and is claimed to be 'highly effective' against insects.

You can buy it in pump-spray, roll-on or cream versions, but also conveniently impregnated in SPF25 or SPF15 sun cream and even aftersun. It's suitable for kids as well, which is particularly welcome given that children seem most likely to develop a reaction to DEET. There's also a candle which can be used indoors as well as outside.

We have some samples to try and we'll let you know how we get on in due course. More details at www.deetfree.co.uk.