Peppermint Oil Plant Protection Spray, 16 oz

I am a crazy plant mom who owns more indoor plants than any woman will ever need. With that, it's expected that I'll have problems with house gnats eventually. I've never had a problem until these past few weeks.. it felt like it happened overnight and I lost complete control.. there were so many gnats everywhere, in every pot, on every shelf, in every corner. I've decided to take a more holistic approach in controlling the situation with products that have less or barely any harmful ingredients so I decided to buy this product. We have a puppy and a family member with respiratory issues so other harmful sprays were NOT an option. If I couldn't control the gnats, I would've thrown all of the plants out but this spray prevented me from having to do that. This spray bottle lasted me a week but my usage was based on about 20 different pots ranging from succulents, snake plants, monstera, fiddle-leaf fig tree, peace lily, pothos, and the list goes on. I went to town with the spray. I sprayed every leaf/twig, the entire pot, the soil, I saturated the heck out of it figuring I had nothing to lose. I was concerned my plants would burn or shrivel from how much I used but to my surprise, everything held up and there was not one ounce of damage anywhere. The scent is really strong (in a great way), it made my house smell like peppermint candy. The spray did not irritate our puppy or our family member with respiratory issues. I have allergies and sensitivity to certain smells and it did not irritate me AT ALL so I highly recommend this. It took about an hour before we couldn't smell it anymore. As far as effectiveness, it did not eliminate the problem in 1 day, but it eliminated about 90% in 1 week which to me makes this product effective and worth every penny. Understand that gnats lay hundreds of microscopic eggs so you have to continuously spray to keep killing them. If you're expecting this spray to work in one day, it's not for you. I sprayed 2x a day (morning/night) for 1 week and 90% of the gnats are gone. I also ordered the sticky yellow fly traps and am now using both products to eliminate the last 10%. The spray bottle nozzle itself is not the best quality & Id have to agree with other users that they need to invest extra money into a better quality nozzle because when I was shaking the bottle to mix the ingredients, it got all over my hand and I had to use two hands to shake the bottle. The sprayer itself broke off after 1 week of using it. However, I made it work and it did the job so I am still giving this a 5/5 review. If the company invests in better sprayer bottles, it will surely increase their revenue in the long run. Highly recommend this!

I think that the active ingredients will expire before I ever need to use the full bottle — if at some point it stops being effective I would definitely repurchase, and I recommend it often. This has killed mealybugs, soil mold, mites, and fungal disease that came in with new plants. The sprayer produces a relatively fine mist (with some occasional larger droplets), so it’s easy to get a thin layer of product over the leaves and soil in 2-3 sprays. Because you need so little product and only need to reapply after like a week if the issue persists, I have felt safe using it on epiphytic plants and not seen any negative effects to their leaves. In many months of use, I haven’t had any recurrence of pest issues it has solved. With regard to some things I’ve seen in negative reviews: The bottle says *shake it before using* because different ingredients have different densities when left to settle and if you don’t shake before using your spritzes may not contain ingredients in a ratio that would be effective. Flowers and tiny buds are delicate, and this product contains a certain amount of alcohol and soap… even spraying those things with water can cause rot, and the only thing I can think of that would not be problematic is something like nitrogen bloom spray in a fine mist. I have in occasion seen baby leaf buds shrivel when spraying this on my jasmine plant, but new buds form 2-3 days later just fine and it’s often ok if they only get hit with one spray from a few feet away instead of being close up. So don’t spray your flowers with this, spray leaves/trunk/stem areas and the top of your potting medium. You also don’t need that much, I generally only do 1-2 sprays and I do it from a 2+ feet away to get a finer mist and reduce droplets getting on the plant. If you see droplets, you can also wipe them down. You can also spray it on a cloth and wipe down stems near flowers if there’s really a big problem, but I would avoid doing that often and avoid doing it to the leaves because you *don’t* want to get a thick/concentrated enough layer on there that it might suffocate the plant. The smell is strong but relatively pleasant and dissipates within an hour or few. I am migraine-prone and find I tolerate it well even during times when I have a headache. There is a certain kind of herbal smell that makes me nauseous, but this is not something that triggers me. The bottle does come with a sprayer, and the sprayer DOES unscrew quite easily in like one 360 degree turn if you grip the ridged part screwed into the bottle… it’s baffling to me that some woman would post an angry video and review about it being terrible for the environment because she didn’t think she could unscrew the top since it has inner teeth, but she never even tried to do it and the teeth are obviously there to help prevent accidental unscrewing and leakage (there is also more than one way to reuse a plastic bottle — people repurpose soda and water bottles into things like sprouting containers all the time, because it is literally hazardous to try to reuse those kinds of plastics for food). The instructions on the bottle even provide guidance to rinse the inside of the bottle before recycling it, so there is a clear statement from the brand on the packaging that the sprayer does unscrew and the plastic they’re using is recycleable in at least some municipalities (though very little plastic sent for recycling is actually able to be recycled, whether due to that type of plastic being difficult-to-impossible to recycle, limitations of the recycling facility, or that there is no market for the recycled form of that plastic… stuff like aluminum has a much higher recycling rate, and if you really were being environmentally friendly you would avoid online shopping, buy the ingredients to make this yourself locally, and put it in a locally purchased glass or aluminum spray bottle). That kind of greenwasher-marketing-induced rage distracts from things that do much more significant damage to the environment/climate, like animal agriculture and compounds like polyvinyl acetate that act like microplastics in the environment and are ubiquitously used in laundry/dishwasher pods and and those laundry detergent sheets claiming being water-free and coming in a recycled box makes them “eco-friendly”. No spray is going to eradicate your fungus gnats if you continue providing an environment that is hospitable to fungus gnats… it can’t magically get into soil and kill all the eggs, it will just help if it’s on surfaces they come into contact with and possibly deter them. If you want to get rid of your gnats, spray a light layer on top of the soil but also you need to let the dirt dry out on all your plants and water more sparingly than you normally do. The less frequently the soil is super moist, the less hospitable it will be to gnats. They also like to lay eggs in drain trays (when water drains from the soil into the tray, it has nutrients from the soil in it and the part of the tray under the pot is often moist for longer periods of time) so you should clean drain trays and the undersides of pots periodically. If you have a really bad fungus gnat problem, you may need to de-pot your plants, put the soil on a foil lined baking tray, wet it with some boiling water, and bake it for 40 mins at 350 to kill the eggs (the eggs are hard to kill and my understanding is it takes at least 30 mins at temps above something like 150 degrees) before letting it cool and repotting your plant. A LOT of things are specifically toxic to cats, especially essential oils; as obligate carnivores, there are just a lot of plant compounds their liver cannot process (they need roughage in their diet, but they will only really try to eat greens and don’t have taste receptors for things like sweetness). For example, citrus oils are particularly toxic to them and are often ingredients in pet shampoos, many ignorant pet owners have caused organ failure to their cat by shampooing them with fancy “natural, safe, and nontoxic” pet shampoos containing citrus oils and (side note: healthy cats are very good at self-cleaning, they only need washing if they are physically soiled or have some infection, and their body temperature is high human fever temperature so you can also give them hypothermia by using a water temperature that is comfortable to you and by not drying them well enough). Fragrance in general can be irritating to a lot of organisms (including people) — the whole reason mint and rosemary are in this kind of product is because they include chemicals those plants produce for self-protection. Neem oil, the perennial favorite “cure-all” for people who frequently kill plants, is also toxic to pets (and people, in cases of accidental ingestion) and the pesticide extract in the unrefined stuff is toxic to bees. Typically the biggest risk with essential oils around cats, other pets, or babies is that they could breathe in or eat the concentrated oil, though with cats I would be additionally wary about skin contact because that is a common vector for essential oil poisoning for them. Yes it’s terrible for your pet to get sick, but there are tons of domestic animals, this is not a pet care product, and you have a responsibility as a pet owner (and an obligation to your pet!) to do research on what is and isn’t ok to have in your home environment. If you are using products containing essential oils in your home, you should keep your pets away until the scent dissipates and the product has had plenty of time to dry down (and avoid any fragrance products around babies). Because this product also contains soap, I suspect licking something it has dried on won’t taste very good (I’m not interested in putting it to the test, though).

I use about every 3 days. Has cut down on the gnats. Has not harmed any of my plants and I used it on 65 plants. Very slight odor, last about a day. Very effective. Easy to use.

My plants look so much healthier since using the mint spray. Keeps bugs and spiders away too. All natural. Safe & smells great!

Great product, but only received one 16 ounce bottle.

So far, this is one of my favorite products for my plants! A little pricey but great! The peppermint also is strong and makes the space smell amazing

I decided to purchase the Mighty Mint Peppermint Oil Plant Protection Spray because I started noticing small flies around my houseplants. At the same time, I was also looking for something that could help me take care of larger leaves and keep them looking healthy. After using it for a while, I feel like the number of flies has decreased, which is a big relief. Another thing I really love is the fresh minty scent—it spreads nicely throughout the room after spraying and makes the space feel clean and refreshing. As a bonus, it seems to work well for leaf care too. My plants’ leaves look cleaner and even have a bit more shine than before. Overall, I’m very happy with this product and would recommend it to anyone dealing with similar plant issues.

It takes a little while to know if the spider mites are really gone, so I can't speak to effectiveness. However, I rate the container pretty low. Product leaks significantly in shipping. They put a little rag under the nozzle, then wrap the whole thing in plastic. The rag is saturated and liquid has wet the interior of the box. The spray assembly is extremely cheap. The trigger is way too small. It is hard to hold one-handed while you spray. I would love to use this, but it is awfully expensive and one quart doesn't go very far. I wonder why they don't sell it in a refill bottle with a regular lid, in a quantity that could be a bit less costly.