If you're going to the Philippines, wait until you get there and buy the local product, it works much better.
I can't remember what was prevalent last year when I was there. "Off" seems to ring a bell, but I don't remember any one being recommended as especially effective.
One thing I DO remember was leaning at a beach-bar on Boracay, and suddenly feeling about twenty million stabs of pain in the ankles. I didn't have time to see what it was as I legged-it to the sea, but can only assume I'd stood on an insects' nest of some kind.
