Re: bug free cowboy camping

"Eric Green" <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:03:17 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.culture.backpacking.light
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], Coosa 1944 <coosa1944@...> wrote:
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> Got a question ... WHY should I wash my clothes after spraying them? 

It removes the loose residue that otherwise could rub off on you and soak into your skin. I don't think there's enough long-term research on the effects of long-term exposure to pyrethroids on humans to discount the possibility that exposure to high levels of loose pyrethroids on a long-term basis is a bad idea, but washing is a compromise that reduces your exposure while not affecting the ability of the clothing to repel insects.