RID is an Australian brand of personal insect repellent sold and distributed in Australia, New Zealand, and online.
It is applied topically to exposed skin or clothing to repel mosquitoes, sandflies, midges, flies, fleas, ticks, head lice, mites, and other insect pests.
RID contains these active ingredients: DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide), di-n-propyl isocinchomeronate (a fly repellent), N-octyl bicycloheptene dicarboximide (an insecticide synergist), and triclosan (an antimicrobial agent which kills a broad range of bacteria).
Although RID once contained DDT as an active ingredient, it has since been removed when the effects of this highly toxic substance became more known worldwide.
According to the American Mosquito Control Association's Web site, DEET remains the standard by which all other repellents are judged.