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

The bottle lasts a long time! The smell is great and refreshing.

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!

This is THE BEST peppermint oil I've ever used.I have been buying this brand for years & recently made the mistake of buying a different brand that was supposedly 100% peppermint oil; but, it was not as potent as NOW brand peppermint oil.I reordered NOW brand, & I will never buy peppermint oil from that other brand. The 16 oz. size is a GREAT value at this price.HINT: U can dilute it with coconut, or almond oil B4 applying it directly to skin.WARNING: Do NOT get in your eyes, OR near your eyes, OR in, or near your genitalia, OR it will burn like the DEVIL!!!WARNING: I am NOT responsible 4 ANY information that I have regurgitated here from others’ information & online research.Records indicate that peppermint oil has been used for thousands of years by various people. Some of the many traditional healing uses purported for peppermint include:Most antiperspirant and deodorant products contain aluminium; so, I use peppermint oil.Blood pressure: lowers bpCleaning: House (add 2 mop water 2 prevent spiders, crickets, etc. & smells great)Cooling mist sprayFreshener: Automobile (add a few drops 2 diffuser necklace)(Remember 2 refresh periodically.)Freshener: RoomFreshener: LaundryMental: The oils also give a pleasant feeling of well-being.Mouthwash: Add a few drops 2 water and gargle for fresh breathe and antisepticMuscle pain: Spray, or rub onto any sore, or aching muscles.Repellent Insect (i.e., ticks, mosquitoes, spider, etc.)Repellent Insect (i.e., wasps/bees mix with Dish soap & water)Repellent Critters (i.e., cats, skunks, raccoons, rodents and many other crittersRepellent Critters (i.e, mice: Apply 2 cotton balls & place wherever U have seen rodentevidence. Apparently, smell burns their nostrils.)(Remember 2 refresh periodically.)Repellent/Exterminator: Ants - A mixture of peppermint & tea tree oil kills & repels ants!Scalp: Add few drops 2 shampoo, conditioner-it leaves scalp feeling tingly clean &stimulatedSinus relief; (If headache, place a few drops on pain area--NOT NEAR EYES!)(Also, U canheat a cup of water in microwave for a minute, or 2 & add a few drops; then, inhalethrough your nose) OR add 2 a diffuser. U can mix peppermint oil with equal portions ofeucalyptus oil. For best results, place the diffuser in a small, closed room.Stomachache: rub it on your stomach clockwise (if counterclockwise makes U poo)Toothpaste: Natural (I add 1 drop NOW tea tree oil and 9-10 drops of NOW peppermint oil to 1 teaspoon of pure coconut oil & swish around; then, expectorate.)

Great stuff. Helped baby through bronchitis. Very very raspy cough with weesing. She was almost 19 mo. Just drop a drop on shirt. Don't get in eyes.Better a bib. Every few hours and at night near bed.Helped sceptical never want to try anything husband with cold. Fast. Now he's a believer.Now my son with copd uses this at night. Put on a cloth near bed and if coughs a bit in the morning I put a drop on T shirt and he doesn't get the usual sickness treated with nebulizer. Hasn't since..Miraculous stuff.Sometimes I'll put a drop on tissue and stick under neckline on the way to school.He thinks it smells like candy. Probably Ricola :)Haven't used internally and probably won'tFor more uses:Dab on corners of pillow at night.Since peppermint is not my favorite scent it does not please mentally in any way I just like it because it does the job and smells fresh.Tried a few drops in shower for son and myself as well while hot water runs and steams up the room.Worked great too.Bathroom will smell good without the toxic airsprays and cleaners. I love other scents for that better but this is great too.Stains wash out for me. Shirts aren't ruined. Be careful though.I wash clothes with borax and washing sofa 50/50 and a few drops of essential oil like grapefruit or orange.Try it. Powerful stuff indeed. And cost penniesBig bottle.

This oil is pure and is the best peppermint oil I have purchased. I would also like to purchase a 16oz of Lavender oil but I'm unable to reach the seller. I asked a Amazon rep.but I can't understand what she is saying, India.