cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45283933
If you ride in during the summer (who doesn’t???), there may be times when you’re putting bug repellent spray on.
DEET-based products harm synthetic fabric, so opt for a DEET-free bug spray if you don’t want any surprises.
I’ve used picaridin-based products, and they seem to work as good, if not better, than DEET.
Picaridin is very effective and doesn’t do this.
I need to pick some of that stuff up for the summer…
An Australian army study found it about as effictive as deet.
Like I said in the OP:
Use DEET or picaridin on skin.
Use Permethrin on your gear (just keep the liquid you use to treat your gear away from cats).
DEET will melt a lot of other synthetic stuff too like tents, tarps, straps, etc.
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You can actually get up to (basically) 100% deet.
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80% is totally possible, it can go up to 100% for deep woods protection.
As I recall, it doesn’t melt every single type of plastic, just some to most of them as well as probably things like dyes, adhesives, etc.
That sounds like an absolute win, synthetic fabric sucks.
