Shirley Martin
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I think Ken was making a play on words, or in this case letters. MSM = Mainstream Media.
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I was watching a video today and the lady was saying that both DMSO and MSM will help repel ticks and chiggers. She didn’t say anything about mosquitoes, but it seems to me like it might also help with mosquitoes as well, since all of these are blood-sucking insects.
She said that because both DMSO and MSM have sulfur, it the smell repels the insects, and she said it will also help kill the chigger if one does get on you and bite you.
She said that if she does get an occasional bite, she just uses her roll-on DMSO, and it does not itch or swell up, and disappears overnight.
I have been adding the MSM to my protein drinks, but only use the DMSO when I need something for pain; but with the mosquito season getting here, I will be trying this and see if it works for mosquitoes, and maybe even for fleas on the dogs.
She said that because both DMSO and MSM have sulfur, it the smell repels the insects, and she said it will also help kill the chigger if one does get on you and bite you.
She said that if she does get an occasional bite, she just uses her roll-on DMSO, and it does not itch or swell up, and disappears overnight.
I have been adding the MSM to my protein drinks, but only use the DMSO when I need something for pain; but with the mosquito season getting here, I will be trying this and see if it works for mosquitoes, and maybe even for fleas on the dogs.
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Don Alaska
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I know sulfur is used to repel chiggers, but i have not heard of it used for mosquitoes. Give us a report @Yvonne Smith
Bobby Cole
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Maybe helps with mosquitoes in the lower 48 but that Alaska breed ? Those things are hatched in the sulfurous depths of hell to begin with.
Don Alaska
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Ah, you remember them @Bobby Cole !
Bobby Cole
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I’ve worked and played in the Everglades of Florida and fished in many a bayou of S. Louisiana and all it took was a bottle of “Skin So Soft” to ward off the insects.
Sadly, I have found no such thing in the form of prevention other than high wind that will keep those prehistoric critters ya’ll call mosquitoes from drawing blood.
Maybe bear grease…..?
As a side, image a company spending a couple of million dollars to find the perfect skin softener for the ladies only to have the product known as one of the best mosquito repellents.
Don Alaska
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We used SSS on the window screens too, as some of the smallest critters could come through a window screen. If it was greased with SSS, they would even try to come through. The only thing that worked when the mosquitoes were really bad was a head net and "helmet" to keep them out of your nose and ears. The homesteaders used DEET-saturated coats that were hung on a hook outside the door, and they would periodically use a Buhach powder fire in a jar lid in the cabin. You can no longer buy the real Buhach, as it was rotenone. The pyrethrum powder works, but not as well.
Tony Nathanson
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Three years ago (when I was 70), I hadn't learned to change how I went up or down stairs. I used to run up & down two stairs at a time without holding the rails. I leaned the hard way by tripping on the second stair & going head-over heels into the wall. I got lucky - just a big cut on my knee that took over a month to heal. I'm still surprised nothing broke or moved out of place.
I'm also finding it hard to deal with having to rest after mowing the 1/2 acre back yard.
And that oldie: "Once a king, always a king, but once a knight's enough."
I'm also finding it hard to deal with having to rest after mowing the 1/2 acre back yard.
And that oldie: "Once a king, always a king, but once a knight's enough."