Bug Protector Balm

This balm looks like a giant tube of ChapStick. It’s good for putting on skin, not covering clothes. Main ingredients: Oil of lemongrass, geranium, cinnamon and peppermint with castor oil, beeswax, vanillin, lecithin and Vitamin E.

Price and store: $2.98, H-E-B.

Scent: It was some of the best-smelling stuff. You’ll smell like sugar cookies.

Feel: Think about applying a balm to your skin. Then know it’s never coming off, after multiple washings.

Fruit test: The bugs came, they saw, they conquered.

Body test: I smelled like cookies, and the bugs appreciated that with multiple bites delivered.

Results: Maybe this works as a perfume, but not as a bug repellent.

Bug Protector all-natural bug repellent stays on and does not leave your skin after multiple washings. It smells good, though. $2.98, H-E-B.