Dec 27, 2002 12:09 PM
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(Updated Dec 27, 2002 11:15 PM)
While trying to catch forty winks recently during an unscheduled night stay at a forest resort in Rajasthan, I was on the verge of tears. It was late in the night after a particularly tiring day, I had an early morning train, and hordes of mosquitoes the size of Pamela Anderson’s neverminds were busy draining me off my blood. (Ok, I exaggerate, but u got the point)
Some 20 minutes earlier, the room attendant while getting me my cup of hot milk noticed me switching on the mosquito repellant mat, and had remarked in Rajasthani accented Hindi that these electrical thingummies wont do a thing against the local mosquitoes. He suggested that I instead apply the Odomos cream lying in the drawers.
I laughed insolently at his face saying, ODOMOS!!??? No way. That thick, gooey, slimy, icky, sticky, pasty, staining, stinking, infernally suffocating thing shall never find its way on my body.
Soon I was to discover how mistaken I was as my last impressions on this cream were almost a decade old. Around 9 years ago, with an intention of increasing the efficacy of a mosquito repellant mat, I used to smear a thick pudgy layer of yellow pasty Odomos on the mat before placing it in the slot of its electrical contraption (Please don’t say it, I know I should have been a scientist) (Needless to add, my research miscarried)
As I lay on my bed, after scoffing at the attendant’s suggestions, suffering the unending parasitic assaults, I finally ate the humble pie and reached for the tube of Odomos (after all, how long can one continue getting molested, I had been better of watching K3G) and what do I discover....
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ODOMOS HAS CHANGED AND HOW !!
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Its now called New Advanced Odomos, and its certainly an advance over its earlier avtaar. I saw a new white n blue package (MS, please change your pic of Odomos. The new pack has a happy family of 3 smiling mouth agape) a soft squeeze tube with a flip top and white soft cream that looked and smelled as good as any cosmetic cream, soon I learnt it even felt like one.
The colour is a more pleasant white, the consistency has changed drastically, the cream vanished on my skin before I said “Oh” and did not leave a yellow filmy appearance on my body and it actually was nicely perfumed.
To summarize Odomos now has all those attributes of a good skin cream that would placate a reasonably finnicky woman.
Never before had I experienced first hand such a striking “before and after” experience (done to death in those VLCC slimming ads). After applying Odomos, in a matter of seconds I became an untouchable, a pariah to the mosquitoes. The effect does wear off in say 6 hours, but one can easily apply some more cream while half asleep too. Better than getting up to change mats or re-ignite coils
New Advanced Odomos is available in 3 packs: 25g, 50g, 100g priced at INR 14, 26 and 43 resp. The repellant used is NN diethyl benzamide which is a safe repellant for even babies. The formulation is safe even for those who have asthma and other ENT problems, and is completely safe for the skin.
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Try it. It’s a vast improvement over before. I’m surprised why Balsara hasn’t tomtommed this change with an ad blitz
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Sleep well
