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Same thing happened a long time ago with Avon’s Skin So Soft. Avon was about to drop the product (women hated it) when suddenly sales spiked. A guy fishing with his wife forgot repellent and in desperation (well, not desperate enough to quit fishing) he tried the Avon product his wife happened to have with her. It worked great, word spread (via a fishing magazine that he wrote for), and before long the stuff was popular. I’ve seen pipeline crews in Louisiana use the stuff and swear by it.
So Avon had a great bug repellant! No. What? Nope. Enter EPA. Turns out under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), you can’t market a bug repellant without years of paperwork filed with the Volgons of Washington. (See Adams, Douglas for the reference.) These are the same slugs that sued the telephone company when they tried to use a natural product made from hot peppers to keep woodpeckers from destroying telephone poles. The fact that Skin So Soft has met all the tests required by the FDA to be used safely on human skin did not matter to the Big, Giant Defenders of the Environment (Mostly), any more than the fact that peppers were out in the same environment and completely non-toxic.
So Avon spent years reminding their sales force not to EVER mention or admit that the stuff could repel bugs.
May 28th, 2019 at 09:38
Same thing happened a long time ago with Avon’s Skin So Soft. Avon was about to drop the product (women hated it) when suddenly sales spiked. A guy fishing with his wife forgot repellent and in desperation (well, not desperate enough to quit fishing) he tried the Avon product his wife happened to have with her. It worked great, word spread (via a fishing magazine that he wrote for), and before long the stuff was popular. I’ve seen pipeline crews in Louisiana use the stuff and swear by it.
So Avon had a great bug repellant! No. What? Nope. Enter EPA. Turns out under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), you can’t market a bug repellant without years of paperwork filed with the Volgons of Washington. (See Adams, Douglas for the reference.) These are the same slugs that sued the telephone company when they tried to use a natural product made from hot peppers to keep woodpeckers from destroying telephone poles. The fact that Skin So Soft has met all the tests required by the FDA to be used safely on human skin did not matter to the Big, Giant Defenders of the Environment (Mostly), any more than the fact that peppers were out in the same environment and completely non-toxic.
So Avon spent years reminding their sales force not to EVER mention or admit that the stuff could repel bugs.