Coconut scent in soap may repel mosquitoes, study finds.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by NBC News
A small study published in the journal iScience found that the scent of coconut could repel mosquitoes, while citrusy scents known to repel the pesky insects instead appeared to attract them. The study looked at whether different scented soaps made people more or less attractive to mosquitoes and found that the interplay of scents between human bodies and the products they used proved to be much more complicated. The team identified four chemicals that were associated with being slightly more attractive to mosquitoes and three that appeared to repel them, but the results were generally weak and variable for all chemical scents tested except one: coconut.