Alfresco
In time for anyone off on a late summer holiday or preparing for an autumn or winter break to a warm destination, I have found a product which may become indispensable.
The discovery was made three months ago, when despite the miserable weather in June I found myself at the summer fair in the Chelsea Physic Garden. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world as among the many small stands selling plants, I found what would become a treasured product this summer. Made by a company called Alfresco and tried and tested at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine it is called “Anti bug bite moisturiser”. I have tried it this summer while in South West France where a very wet June was followed by hot weather and the inevitable mosquitoes. For once I enjoyed covering myself with a cream to defend myself against these summer tormentors. So what makes it so special? It is the first product of its kind which I have come across which actually smells GOOD, isn't sticky and is not full of very suspect ingredients. According to the label it was “created in a medicinal garden and made by a perfume house founded in 1730”. Best of all, I can report that it appears to work. I did not however try it against the daytime wasps and horseflies but for me, night time mosquito nets are set to become a thing of the past.
The discovery was made three months ago, when despite the miserable weather in June I found myself at the summer fair in the Chelsea Physic Garden. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world as among the many small stands selling plants, I found what would become a treasured product this summer. Made by a company called Alfresco and tried and tested at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine it is called “Anti bug bite moisturiser”. I have tried it this summer while in South West France where a very wet June was followed by hot weather and the inevitable mosquitoes. For once I enjoyed covering myself with a cream to defend myself against these summer tormentors. So what makes it so special? It is the first product of its kind which I have come across which actually smells GOOD, isn't sticky and is not full of very suspect ingredients. According to the label it was “created in a medicinal garden and made by a perfume house founded in 1730”. Best of all, I can report that it appears to work. I did not however try it against the daytime wasps and horseflies but for me, night time mosquito nets are set to become a thing of the past.