Hopefully you killed them all, you should soak again soon, their eggs will hatch before long and the itch starts all over.
As for the bugs loving you take a vitamin B12 supplement a few hours before heading into nature, I don't think anything will repel chiggers just stay away from Queen Anne's Lace, otherwise known as chigger weed. You can put a chelated b12 pill in font of windows and doors to repel ants and other insects, not all of them will be effected and the thing rotting in the sun is ugly as sin but we left a bill in front of every entrance and had no ants or other intruders after they had begun to break down and we left them there for years. I've got powdered b12 of the healthier type now I should check if that works too.
Mosquitoes will love you if you've eaten a banana recently, I'm guessing the potassium incites them but it could be something else.
If you soak again try adding a couple cap-fulls of vinegar, that's the bottles cap or just like two table spoons at most.
I think I've also heard of toothpaste, mud and spot treating the infested skin with like a medicine cup filled with vinegar held onto the skin.
The goal is always the same, deprive the chiggers of oxygen and their young. And the unhatched eggs they've laid, I'll ask around some more if anybody remembers what else my great grandparents said to do for them.
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