Exposed or under clothing – it hardly makes any difference. Your logic is a bit faulty (I don’t mean to sound like a bad guy, just trying to help). When you apply the mixture to your skin it does not penetrate into it, and simply stays on the surface. Mixture applied to clothes will be absorbed by the material (just like a sponge). Here is an analogy, a puddle of water on asphalt will evaporate much sooner than the water absorbed by soil. In fact, it has rained here this mourning and asphalt is dry, while soil is still moist.

Also, temperature is directly proportional to evaporation rate, and average body temperature is much higher, compared to average temperature of clothing.

Hope this helps.

zcat

[ September 06, 2001: Message edited by: zcat ]