REVIEW – I enjoy getting my steps in each day by walking around my property, which is 12 acres in rural Southern Indiana. In the past five years or so, the tick situation has gotten really bad. When I was offered the chance to test out the NATPAT Tick Repellent stickers, I didn’t think twice about it. Let’s see if they actually work!
What is it?
NATPAT is a brand that makes tick repellent stickers and Sunny Patch UV stickers. These are small stickers that you can put on kids’ and adult clothes and skin to repel ticks and know when it’s time to reapply sunscreen.
Design and features
I originally agreed to review the NATPAT tick repellent stickers, but they also sent me a package of their Sunny Patch UV stickers. I admit that I don’t wear sunscreen very often, so this review is going to focus mainly on the tick stickers.
Both types of stickers come in resealable packages. The Tick Repellent stickers come in a package that contains 48 stickers. each sticker is supposed to be effective for about 8 hours. The Sunny Patch UV stickers come in a package of 24 stickers.
NATPAT Sunny Patch UV patches
The Sunny Patch stickers are quite small. Smaller than the size of a dime.
They are opaque in color and blend in with your skin when you’re not out in the sun. Can you even see it stuck to my forearm in the image above?
The sticker will turn purple when exposed to UV light (the sun). The idea is that you put the sticker on and then you apply your sunscreen on your skin including over the sticker. Then when you go out in the sun, the sticker should still stay clear. When it starts turning purple, like in the image above, you’ll know that it’s time to reapply your sunscreen. Pretty clever!
NATPAT Tick Repellent Stickers
The NATPAT Tick Repellent stickers are larger than the Sunny Patch stickers. They are various colors and have different pictures on them that will appeal to kids.
There are also four sheets of non-cartoony style stickers.
The stickers have a strong Citronella-type fragrance to them that is made from eco-friendly essential oils that are sourced in Australia.
The package has instructions for how many stickers to apply for different age groups for children. For adults, it suggests 2-4 patches. So I put a sticker on each of my pant legs about 5-6 inches above my shoes. And then, I went for a short walk around my property, where the grass in 95% of the area was cropped quite short. Then 5% of the walk was through some 6-7 inch tall grass. After the walk, I checked my pant legs and… well, you can watch the video below to see what I found.
See it in action
Yikes, right?! And no, these are NOT chiggers. They are baby ticks. I’ve looked them under a magnifying glass.
It’s crazy because I never saw ticks this small until a few years ago and now this is the majority of ticks that I see. The image above was taken from https://tickfreenh.org/identify/. And yes, they do bite and attach to humans. I know because it happens to me many times during the warm months when I walk outside. And this is why I wanted to review this product.
After I stopped the video, I used a sticky roller (the kind you use to get lint and pet hair off your clothes) to capture the ticks on my pants. However, I didn’t catch all of them because when I got undressed hours later, I had at least 10 baby ticks attached around my ankles. YUCK!
What I like about the NATPAT Tick Repellent stickers
- They smell good – if you like Citronella
What needs to be improved?
- Didn’t work at all, so everything needs to be improved
Final thoughts
The Sunny Patch UV stickers work well, but the Tick Repellent stickers, not so much. I really, really, really wanted the NATPAT Tick Repellent stickers to work, but my unscientific test didn’t show any benefit to them at all. I was disappointed.
Price: $19.00 (one pack of Tick Repellent stickers) / $14.99 (one pack of UV stickers)
Where to buy: Natpat and Amazon
Source: The sample for this review was provided by Natpat. Natpat did not have a final say on the review and did not preview the review before it was published.
