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Tuesday, April 12, 2022Products

Two new references for Body Guard, the mosquito repellent that smells good and protects for eight hours

Deux nouvelles références (dont une pour les bébés) pour Body Guard, l’antimoustiques qui sent bon et protège pendant huit heures

Its patented formula has revolutionized mosquito control! Finally, an insecticide that smells good and is not harmful to the environment. Body Guard is launching two new creations, one monoi-scented, the other with a very light fragrance for babies (from three months), pregnant women, but also people with allergies. Protection and pleasure meet!

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They don’t really belong to the cosmetics category, but when mosquito repellents smell as good as real perfumes (and are composed as olfactory creations in their own right), it’s just like it!

Body Guard belongs to Laboratoire Astélia, located in Manosque and founded in 2021 by Célia Nicolosi and Stéphanie Venier-Dargent, businesswomen in the perfume industry.
Their genius idea is to bring together two worlds that usually don’t work together: protection, in the medical sense of the term, and perfumery.
This is how they developed these fragrant mists with a non-sticky texture (unlike many mosquito repellents). They owe their eight-hour protection against all mosquitoes, as well as ticks, to the repellent molecule IR3535 (recommended by the WHO and health ministries in Brazil, the EU, Thailand, Ghana, etc.), which is biodegradable, non-toxic and respectful of both humans and the planet. This mysterious name hides a secret formula that the brand has patented. It can be said that the biosynthetic molecule, based on natural amino acids, completely masks our smell (it is this, as well as the heat emitted by our skin, that allows mosquitoes to spot us), preventing the mosquito’s smell receptor neurons from detecting us.The mosquito can approach us but …

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