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Avon Body Oil Skin Spray is the preferred product of the Outdoor shops and many of my friends. If it's for horses it is more economic to use the Skin So Soft Bath Oil mixed with water.

Hi, just wanted to know which Avon product of skin so soft is working well for midges?

Used for several things from perfume to acne aid, beer to repelent.

Avon Skin So Soft works very well, as does taking garlic tablets/supplements.

29-Jul-2008 @ 11:53AM

Norette Ferns

While discussing this topic recently with friends, it was suggested that eating marmite repelled midges, but that eating sweet stuff seemed to attract them.

Is this a myth designed to drive up sales of the love it or loathe it toast topping or is there some truth in it?

I've done a little bit of investigation on the internet, where the marmite-as-repellent technique is mentioned, although the woodlands.co.uk website says it is an urban myth (shouldn't that be a rural myth?).

Others claim that taking B1 vitamin supplements also help.

Has anyone tried either of these methods? And what was the result?

Avon So soft. Spray. It's the only thing I've used that I see the beasts flying towards me then actually heading away at the last minute. Works a treat!
AM Paisley

Definitely Avon Skin So Soft, now available in a spray on lotion. I believe the Paras use this too.

Midge nets work. Repellents wear off.

Avon Skin So Soft
works every time, smells nice and is good for you too!

Stay indoors!

We use Avon Skin So Soft on the horses as well as ourselves.

A metal bucket with a handful of smouldering pine cones works a treat. Drop a bbq charcoal into the bucket of cones or get them blazing with a match then smother with a lid. The lid is also useful to control airflow should they burst into flames!