Be Well: How to Protect Your Skin From Bug Bites This Summer

<div class="block">Amy Brightfield, health and features director at Better Homes &amp; Gardens, joined Cheddar News to share a few tips to make our summer days a bit more enjoyable without the constant pestering of bugs and insects.</div>

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Amy. Brian Field Health and features director at Better Homes and Gardens is here to show us how we can use some of the best products to get rid of those pesky bugs. All right, Amy. Thank you so much for joining us. Let's start with me right here. I'm familiar with this one. You use this with the kids. So you definitely need a spray is the easiest way and the most effective way to protect yourself. The first one bhg bedrooms and gardens testing these and these were the two that came out on the top and this is off deep woods and it has in it and deep. It is the most effective, especially if you're going camping or you're going hiking in a wooded area and also helps against ticks, which are really bad this year. You know, my wife was always like, she doesn't like some of that smell bad and this one doesn't smell like a chemical leak. This is why they score really high in our testing because it doesn't, it smells for like a second and it goes away and it was, it showed to be really effective. Our tester, we didn't get any mosquito bites when we used. Ok, that's big because a lot of times you put it on, it's like it did nothing. No, it's got deep. It's really effective. Definitely. Go with, go with this one for, if you're going camping or hiking in the woods in a wooded area, you have another spray can. Now, this is another breaking. Now, some people don't want to use. This is Picaridin, the active ingredient. This is picaridin and it's also effective, but it's better to use this if you're like, gonna be outside on your, in your backyard or in the pool. This is more like an everyday use opposed to like camping, more of like if like, you're not gonna be in the woods and in the grass for a long time, but you still don't want the nats and the other backyard bugs being, uh, a pest, but this is good against mosquitoes to as well. Now, I'm not sold on this first, this one here. I like the first two, but tell us about this extra protection. This is not in place of spraying yourself. If you're gonna be outdoors for a long period of time, you should definitely spray yourself. This is just extra protection. You put it sort of like if you're having like a patio or porch backyard party, you put it far away, it's 15 ft of protection. And so it just gives you that extra little extra layer of protection. It sort of deters the mosquitoes from even flying in to the area. These are citronella candles and these are actually from the better Humson Gardens Walmart line. Um, and actually you can use these, it's citronella sounds good though. It doesn't smell like the regular citronella smell. We're used to when they're like those tiki torches. And you can use these as planters when you're done. And also, so the citronella candle protects in two different ways. It deters. It's the smoke that comes from the candle that deters the bugs from coming in. And then also the scent, the citronella itself deters. But it also, again, this is an added layer of protection. It after you spray yourself and we have one more one real quick. These are, we love these. These are our favorites. So this is if you get bitten, what do you do? So this is a balm that has you put right on the bite and it stops you. It's, it's got shea butter, it's got Arnica. And so it smells really great like peppermint. And it's, it actually, it really work though. It really works. My daughter gets some bad, she like welts up from a mosquito. This is got anti inflammatory. It's got colonial oatmeal in it. It's anti inflammatory also. It's sort of like you can just put it in your bag and it just when you feel like scratching you just put it on. All right, Amy Bryan Field. Thank you. So much health and features director at better homes and gardens. We appreciate that and of course, for more summer tips, you don't wanna miss the magazine's current issue available on new stands now.