NOW Essential Oils, Peppermint Oil, Invigorating Aromatherapy Scent, Steam Distilled, 100% Pure, Vegan, Child Resistant Cap, 1-Ounce

This is excellent true peppermint oil -- very strong! I've seen 16 oz of pure peppermint oil for more than $100 from other online sellers, so this is a good deal. When buying peppermint oil, you need to make sure that it is true peppermint extract, and not some poor substitute. The Now brand gets it right. This is so strong that when I spray it in the veggie garden to keep pests off, I have to be careful not to get it on some tender leaves or it will actually burn them. At the same time, this is a pure product and I use a little in water as mouthwash. Be careful to add just a few drops to say, an 8 to 12 oz bottle. It is potent! Dip a finger and test a drop of your mixture on your tongue to see if you got it right. Too strong? Just add a little more (distilled or RO) water. Remember to shake your mixed bottle well before each use! This is peppermint OIL, and does separate (float on top) of the water. Also, peppermint oil will actually melt plastic -- better to use a glass container.We live in a wilderness area which can become overrun with rodents.Our two cats hunt the backyard (veggie garden and fruit trees) and the roof, but they can't control the mice in the rafters/attic, as it's all insulation up there, with a ceiling made of nothing more than sheetrock. I can't poison the attic because a rodent could eat the stuff, crawl outside, be consumed by one of the cats and poison it as well. I've tried rodent traps, but it's a pain to have to get the step ladder out and crawl up through the trapdoor to check them and re-bait every two or three days. Besides, they hardly make a dent in the rat party. At times, we've heard scratching and skritching all over the ceiling of our large ranch-style house. So I mix this peppermint oil in water -- 1/4 cup per gallon -- and spray it in the attic, and then outside, around wheels, undercarriage and engine compartments of various pieces of equipment (pickup truck, compact backhoe, ride-'em mower tractor, various carts and barrows).From time to time, especially when winter comes on, we get an infestation of field and kangaroo mice in the attic. I've even found chipmunks up there. I've had pest control check the roof and they can't even find the ingress point or points. I guess the builders should have paid way more attention to rodent-proofing when they were building, but it's too late now. Mice can get in through a crack no wider than a nickel. But the rat party ends after I haul myself into the rafters and spray enough peppermint oil to make dampen the R-30 insulation. Instantly, there's blessed peace overhead!Rodents more than dislike peppermint oil -- they are highly allergic. While neighbors have had vehicles incapacitated with expensive repair bills, ours, with peppermint wafting, are left alone. (I've been spreading the word to the neighbors as well). Field mice, pack rats and the various members of the squirrel clan, actually eat the insulation off wires and wreak all kinds of havoc under the hood. I just have to remember to respray at least every 60 days, and in the attic, deliver a good soaking, twice a year. For a few days, we get peppermint perfuming the house -- something we actually enjoy, and the rodents hate.I was spraying with your average $15 pump herbicide gallon spray bottle available at any hardware department or store -- the kind with the pump handle on top, and a wand to direct the spray. However, this was a pain in the attic. "Attic" may even be the wrong word. It's a difficult crawl space between the ceilings and the actual roof, with rafters to crawl through, dusty insulation laying on the sheetrock ceiling, where one wrong move would put a foot through it and a nasty repair to contemplate. It's tough to move around up there! I wear a breathing mask and goggles to keep the insulation dust out. Hauling around a pump bottle by hand is just miserable. In addition, I can only stay in the middle and highest points of the rafters, where I'm still crouched over. I need at least a 25 ft jet to get into the hard-to-reach areas around the edges. Recently I bought a Hudson 4 gallon bak-pak sprayer with brass fittings that makes it all a lot easier http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H4DVPOG. Now I can mix up a big batch of peppermint, carry it on my back so my hands are free to climb, and and apply it with less hassle.If you're using a sprayer, between uses, wash it out with water a couple of times, and remember to spray some through the wand to at least dilute if not totally wash out the peppermint oil. Remember, this powerful product will melt plastic and the O-rings and fittings inside!In our opinion, the Now brand is an excellent and dependable product:Recommended!

Good quality and value. I use it with my humidifier or just for aromatherapy.

Ten years ago I bought my first Now EO. Aromatherapy has become a wellness staple in my household. With scams flooding Amazon with low grade product it’s nice to have a brand I can come back to again and again. Thanks.

Works well! I do find a have to use a few more drops of this brand to get the scent as strong as I want but it works great and is still good quality.

I bought it to repel spiders.

I've been looking for a high quality peppermint oil for a while now. Most don't smell right or have that cold heat when applied. This is great though. Clears the sinuses right up. Smells amazing. Feels refreshing and invigorating.

Nice thank you

It is definitely made me realize the other brands were not pure. This is so strong it has to be diluted before it’s of any use. Once it’s diluted it brings out the proper peppermint aroma and flavor.No more than 8 drop in an ounce of alcohol for a tincture of peppermint that is as strong as any peppermint you would want to consume a ml or 2 of.