There's one animal that ruins summer evenings: the mosquito.
Everyone has a friend who gets covered in mosquito bites and a friend who doesn't get a single one. That's because mosquitoes use their sense of smell to find people to bite, and some people smell better to them. We can change how we smell using perfume, soaps, our diet, and so on, but which changes can stop us from being bitten by mosquitoes?As we all know, soaps affect how we smell, but people who use the same soap can end up smelling differently.
found that, for some people, washing with Dove and Simple Truth soaps makes them more attractive to mosquitoes, whereas washing with Native soap repels them. But for other people, none of the soaps affect how attractive mosquitoes find them.A US study found that, for some people, mosquitoes were more attracted to the scent of their hands after they had eaten a banana.
However, this pattern is not true for all fruits. The same methods were repeated using grapes, and there was no change in mosquito attraction to the volunteers after they had eaten them.measured how attractive mosquitoes found people before and after they drank either beer or water. After drinking beer, the volunteers' body scent was more attractive to the mosquitoes.
But there was no change in how attractive mosquitoes found the volunteers after drinking water. So you might want to cut out the pints this summer – if you think it's worth the sacrifice.found that a compound in deodorants repelled mosquitoes by preventing them from landing on the surface coated in deodorant. In fact, there was a 56 percent decrease in the number of mosquito landings. Imagine how many fewer bites that could lead to.
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