Mighty MintGallon (128 oz) Insect and Pest Repellent Peppermint Oil - Natural Spray for Spiders, Ants, and More

This works great! We use this for our outdoor patio and our inside plants. It has helped so much with the squirrels, fruit fly's, and random pests. It smells great and is safe for pets. It does not leave stains or streaks.

Mighty Mint really works. I like that it is all natural and safe around kids and pets. It has a very strong peppermint scent when you first spray it. It does fade later throughout the day, but you can sense it is still effective. The big cockroaches enter the house from the outside from the trees and grass when the kids leave the door opened too long or through the garage. My granddaughter ran in my room and asked for that minty bug spray when a big roach was found in the bathroom. Now mind you her brothers grabbed a well know can of bug spray, but she asked for Mighty Mint. She is 8 years old. It killed the cockroach in its place and she was very happy. I use it to spray around the perimeters of the garage door and doors leading to the outside of the house when in and out activity is heavy in the home to prevent bugs from entering. Every once in a while they do find a way in. I was amazed how effective the spay was when I sprayed a bug that entered my bed room. I sprayed it with Mighty mint and watched it go round in circles , then flip on its back. It died . I will forever keep a bottle in my home. I have purchased this product several times, especially in the summer months. When the little ones have faith in its effectiveness, you know you have something good. Buy it you will not be disappointed.Mighty Mint really works. I have it on my sucribe and save because it allows me to always have it on hand. Yesterday my 8 year old ran into my room and ask for that

The Mighty Mint Insect and Pest Repellent definitely has a strong peppermint scent—refreshing, yes, but also very overpowering when sprayed indoors. I highly recommend opening windows and running fans after application to help air things out.One of the biggest issues I had was with the sprayer. While it technically works fine, it’s not ideal for those with hand or wrist issues. I have carpal tunnel, and using this for any large-scale application became a real strain. I had to spray in short shifts just to get through the house. A battery-powered sprayer option (like Pestie offers) would make this product much more user-friendly.As for effectiveness, it was hit or miss. It seemed to work okay for some pests, but when it came to ants—especially during a serious infestation—it was practically useless. The ants either changed their route temporarily or ignored it entirely once the scent faded. Sadly, it didn’t do much to resolve our ant problem, even with frequent reapplication.

I am impressed! I was finding 3+ spiders a day in my bedroom before I used this!!! I knew where they were coming from, a baseboard by my door. It’s helpful if you know the exact location they are coming from so you can pinpoint it and spray a lot there, which is what I did and have not seen a single spider in days. It’s given me so much peace of mind and is so much cheaper than any exterminator! Highly recommend, also smells way better than other bug sprays, so it’s nice to layer over top of other chemically ones, which I also do because it hides the smell and it’s double protection!

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. If you have a mouse problem this will 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 or maybe even an ultrasonic pest repeller.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 so be sure to keep reapplying until they give up.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 solid, all-purpose pest control spray, but the price tag combined with my somewhat 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 and is especially effective against rodents, but it won’t singlehandedly save you from an infestation and there are better alternatives for insects.

I was able to substitute the sprayer and it works great so far!! So I moved it from 3 to 5 starsI’m not sure how it works because the sprayer doesn’t work. I’ve cleaned out the tube but it still isn’t spraying. I’m thinking about buying a spray bottle from the Dollar Tree and then I will give a review.