Mighty Mint Peppermint Oil Insect Repellent Spray – Natural Indoor & Outdoor Bug Control for Spiders, Ants, Roaches, and More – Plant-Based, Extra-Strong Formula - 1 Gallon (128 oz)

I live in a suburb near woods and a swamp so I get a lot of pests. I’ve used this product for a variety of insect and rodent problems and my overall verdict is this: it’s decent at both but it’s too weak to deal with a serious problem. Here are my personal experiences with each pest I’ve used it on: Mice - this stuff definitely seems to deter mice but if they’ve already set up camp in your home, it won’t agitate them enough to leave permanently. I sprayed an area where I spotted a mouse come into my room, and I saw with my own eyes the mouse run in, and then immediately turn around and run out. Sadly though, even after making my house reek with the smell of mint for a few days, the mice never completely left and the problem wasn’t dealt with until we zapped them with a kill trap. Take it from me as someone who wasted over $200 on every scent and sound deterrent I could find: they don’t work if the mice have their heart set on your home. No scent stinks enough and no sound is agitating enough to make them give up easy food and shelter. If you have a mouse problem this will potentially help give you something to fight back with, but don’t rely solely on this alone to solve the problem, back it up with some traps. If you go for a Live Trap, you have to take the mouse over a mile away or it’ll just come right back (especially if you didn’t seal all entry points) if you go for a Kill Trap but you’re squeamish like me at the thought of handling rodent corpses, go for an electric one; they’re a bit pricey but the light indicator lights up to let you know when it gets a kill so all you need to do is pick up the trap and dump the mouse in the trash, you don’t have to touch or look at it. Ants - ants DO NOT care and were the least affected out of all the pests I tested this on. At best they’ll stay away for a moment but will be back in full force the moment the scent dies down, or they’ll just change routes undeterred. We had a really bad ant infestation where they were crawling all over the house, in the cabinets, in our beds, everywhere. This stuff did virtually nothing to help the problem. We eventually won the battle by spraying Raid on several of their trails and placing several Raid Ant Baits around key areas but mint doesn’t seem to do as much to stop ants as people claim, at least not for a problem as serious as the one we had. If you’re dealing with an ant problem I can’t overstate how important it is to get good ant baits, because until you kill the queens their numbers will simply never end. Spiders - spiders won’t like this but again, it’s not going to help with even a mild infestation where they’ve already gotten cozy in your home. I tried to use this to get rid of several dozen Cellar Spiders in our basement and it didn’t produce the results I would have liked. More often than not, the spiders would be right back in the areas I sprayed the next day. I found Ortho Home Defense to be more effective at both deterring and killing them, and it has since become my “go to” for dealing with most bugs. Squirrels - We had a couple of squirrels tear into our attic recently and I furiously blasted the last of my mint spray up there in retaliation. To its credit it did seem to cause them to flee for a day, but they were determined to make our attic their home, and came back the very next day when the scent died down. We ended up blasting loud music and threw the last of my essential oils up there to get them out again and then sealed up the entrances. If you loaded this stuff into a water gun and fired it at some squirrels or groundhogs invading your bird feeder or garden, that might be an effective, non-lethal way to help stop them, but like the mice they’ll probably be more stubborn if you’re specifically trying to dislodge them from nesting in or around your home, in which case you’ll likely need an alternative. Flies, Gnats, Moths, Mosquitoes and Crane Flies - As far as insects go, this category seems to be what this stuff is most effective against. Mosquitoes and Crane flies were getting into my house through the Air Conditioner during the summer so I repeatedly sprayed the back end of my AC outside and it seemed to help when regularly reapplied. Bear in mind though I wasn’t dealing with an infestation with this group like the other insects, just discouraging some wanderers from getting near my AC. If you have an especially bad problem with this category of dusk/night pests, some sticky blue light traps would probably be a better alternative for indoors and a bug zapper would probably be better outdoors, especially when combined with an outlet timer. Despite my rating, I like Mighty Mint and appreciate it as a decent, all-purpose pest control spray, but the price tag combined with my mixed results compels me to give it a moderate 3 stars. It’s best use in my opinion is as a holistic, preemptive deterrent if you don’t mind reapplying it regularly (at least once a day) and is especially effective against rodents, but it won’t singlehandedly save you from an infestation and there are better alternatives for insects.

Mighty Mint gallon jug was delivered quickly and the product is great. I had a problem with the dispenser part of the packaging because any time the jug wasn't upright, the product leaked. The hole where you replace the dispenser trigger looks like it fits to cover the area, but when the gallon fell down there was a lot of leakage.

We have a house build in progress in the Sierra Nevada Mountains which means lots & LOTS of wild life! And it means workers going in & out with the doors left open. YIKES! We hate MICE & RATS! And certainly don’t want them to run rampant through our house so our contractor sprays this Peppermint Pest Repellent Oil at the thresholds of doorways and across the garage door threshold to dissuade pests from crossing over and into our new home. So far, the report is….Nothing has entered the house…mice, rats, bats, cats, or ants. This is strong stuff and apparently it works! It remains in my Amazon Prime subscription delivery as I never want to be without it. I find that peppermint oil is a wonderful way to thwart unwanted pests from entering home, garage, sheds, engine compartments, etc.

Love this product, this is my 2nd order. I strayed it on my house fasha where bees had found an area to make a nest. It's been several months. They're gone. But better yet, I was having issues where birds were visiting under my boat lift cover, probably eating spiders and enjoying the shade. I spray under my cover, and no birds and no mess to clean up on my boat. I just reapply every 3-6 weeks and I'm good. It doesn't harm them either.

It is a great price and received it on time. There was several boxes of band-aid packed in the same shipping box. It should never have been all packed together in one shipping box. The band aids were all damaged. they should never have been packed with the Mighty Mint.