Insect Shield Your Own Clothes: durable permethrin treatment for Lyme disease.

[Snowleopard]

You can now send your own clothes to Insect Shield to be treated with permethrin that lasts through 70 washes, essentially the same as the expensive clothing that incorporates permethrin. The spray on permethrin from Sawyer is only good for six washes or six weeks, so a thru-hiker would have to re-treat a number of times in a thru. If it's really good for 70 washes, the Insect Shield treatment should last through a whole thru-hike without re-treating.

http://www.tickencounter.org/prevention/insect_shield_your_own_clothes
Order form including instructions and types of clothes that can't be treated:
http://www.tickencounter.org/prevention/insect_shield_your_own_clothes
$9.95 for each item plus shipping
$8.33 for items #3-19.

I haven't tried this myself, but it looks useful.

[Pumba]

That's pretty cool. I may just send one or two items to give it a try. Thanks for the info.

[alectragriffis]

Yeah it looks very useful. Good for at least 70 washes is pretty cool too. The Insect Shield treatment is very much required nowadays.

[leaftye]

That's great news. I already have plenty of permithrin, but I'd rather pay someone else than deal with those chemicals myself.

[RedMolly]

That's awesome. If somebody has it done, please post the review!