Could patchouli oil save your skin from mosquito bites? (IMAGE)

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Could patchouli oil save your skin from mosquito bites?

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Study coauthor Cleidjane Gomes Faustino places her arm treated with a patchouli-based repellant in a cage filled with hungry mosquitoes

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Lizandra Lima Santos

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