In more recent years, Carter has frequently appeared in the media, speaking about mosquitoes and the spread of disease on BBC News.
eventually becoming a director of Hill Publishing launching & running a number of titles before selling them to Columbus Plc: acquired by Highgate which in turn was bought by Archant.
As a result of contracting two life-threatening diseases in the space of a year, Carter was motivated to change careers and he decided to go back into biochemistry which he had studied earlier on.
[6] Carter theorised in 2013 during an interview with the Huffington Post that the Anopheles albamanus mosquito and others had become partly resistant to DEET, DDT and other forms of pesticide used commonly in many high-street repellents.
[7] Carter's logic of using natural ingredients, predominantly from South East Asia, means that the repellant works against breeds of mosquitoes that are resistant to widely used pesticides.
[14] In 2017, Howard Carter was recognized by The Guardian when a product he had developed as part of the incognito range – the dual action natural suncream insect repellent won a Janey Lee Grace Platinum Award.
[15] The incognito insect repellent SPF30 sunscreen is the only one in the world that is certified by COSMOS, The Vegan Society and the Ethical Shopping Guide as being 100% natural.
In clinical testing by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine it achieved a complete protection time of 5 hours on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.