Washing with different soaps could make you more or less attractive to mosquitoes
Published Date: 5/10/2023
Source: phys.org
Theories abound for why some people are mosquito magnets while others get off bite-free. A team of researchers from Virginia Tech report May 10 in the journal iScience that washing with some soaps attracted mosquitoes, while other soaps were repellent, but these effects varied between different people as a result of interactions between the soaps and each person's unique odor profile.