Mosquito repellents: Which ones work and which ones don’t [Video]

ST PAUL, Minn. — Mosquitos can quickly ruin your day, but with so many options to keep them away, what works and what doesn’t?

Consumer Reports recently tested several mosquito repellents and remedies to keep the bugs away. Their testing process started in the lab with a handful of brave volunteers.

“It’s actually a pretty cool process,” Kevin Loria from Consumer Reports said.

“We apply the insect repellent to their arms. They wait 30 minutes and then they put their arms into a cage that has 200 disease-free mosquitos.”

The lab team counts how many mosquitos land on their arms and how many times they bite. After five minutes in the cage, the volunteers place their arms into a second cage with a different species of mosquito.

Loria says the research team will …