NOW Essential Oils, Peppermint Oil, Steam Distilled, Undiluted, 16 fl. oz

Amazing! A little pricey. But I love how it makes my whole house smell! I’m about to order another bottle! Amazing!

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 peppermint oil is strong! We bought it to forcibly evict unwanted residents (mice) in our home. Most people say to soak a cotton ball and place them throughout the house, but it left a mild Holiday aroma that I didn't feel was strong enough, so I abandoned that method and took a more direct approach (outlined below) that noticeably paid off. These Pros and Cons are based on the assumption you are using this oil to rid your home of pests. For normal use through a water reed dispenser or other oil dispenser, see someone else's review. Pros: - Very strong if used my way (probably not the 'correct' way) - Does not require a whole lot to be effective - Gets rid of mice and chipmunks - You can put it in an oil dispenser for the Holidays Cons: - I don't consider this stuff pet friendly when used incorrectly - Strength drops noticeably after 2-3 days (recommend reapplying on the 3rd or 4th day to keep continuous pest control) - Comes in a glass bottle I basically drilled a hole into the drywall where scratching noises came from (not to mention the occasional stench of a freshly dead mouse) and filled up a bulb syringe with the oil (the kind you use to remove mucus from a newborn's nose) and emptied it out into the wall. Within 2 hours, the aroma brought a burning sensation to my eyes and nose. My cat Leo was visibly agitated (he kept pawing at his eyes and you could see tears forming). We weren't even in the room that I treated. I had thought that shutting the door would have been enough to keep the smell contained. Needless to say, I had to wedge a towel under the door to prevent anymore fumes escaping into the rest of the basement and then relocated my cat to another area upstairs until the main area cleared. The strength of the peppermint scent diminished over the course of 2-3 days, so I reapplied a lesser amount on the 4th day. It's been about 6 weeks since I first applied peppermint oil to the inside of my walls and there have been no more scratching sounds, no more mouse droppings, and no more random small animals dying in unreachable places. I still have a little more than half a bottle (16 oz bottle). Meanwhile, we will have someone inspect the outside of the house to try and find / seal the entry point of the pests.

I’ve tried many brands of peppermint oil, but NOW works the best. Great for sore muscles, head & stomach aches and even cramps. Also works great for opening a plugged nose.

I love This peppermint oil. I mix several drops with fractionated coconut oil and apply it to my arms, neck and legs before going out gardening. The peppermint scent keeps mosquitoes away. I can honestly say I have yet to be stung by a mosquito when I apply It.

I'm prone to frequent headaches (migraines, cluster & tension), and peppermint definitely helps relieve some of these (especially my tension and early onset of migraine). Just don't do what I did when I dabbed a little directly under and around my nose. *Essential oils should Not be applied directly to your skin (use with carried oil like jojoba or almond oil) -- as stated on the bottle -- I thought a teeny bit might be okay, but no, it's really not. Thankfully, it was a just small amount, but still caused irritation, and I won't be trying that again. Peppermint also has a stimulating effect on me (recently reminded of this when a bad headache hit at night & I reached for peppermint ~ helped me lose both my headache AND ability to sleep!). However, it's perfect smell when I add it into my shampoo in the morning, and in my diffuser on afternoons when I need a pick-me-up to help invigorate my mind. It can also help alleviate sinus troubles. This bottle should last awhile. If you don't have and/or aren't in a place you can use a diffuser, or you haven't created a lotion infused with peppermint yet, you can simply open & smell the pure oil quickly from bottle (not directly touching it to your nose/face, of course! *smile*). Essential oils last longer when out of sun, heat and oxygen, so it is best if you don't keep opening the bottle, but it is easy to mix into lotions & shampoo, and it only requires a few drops! If mixing, be sure to read a little more about that, too, though so you don't waste product and/or end up with surprising situation. For example, many essential oils can eat through plastic (but if you are just adding a few drops to a regular size lotion/shampoo, from everything I've read and experienced, it is safe/okay to add to these into larger containers). If you have small glass bowls, you can even mix a small test batch. I use a mini silicone spatula to mix and/or glass dropper to transfer smaller mixes into portable, glass containers (washed well first & labeled) for easy-to-pack, helpful peppermint boosts and/or headache relief when I'm on the go. The only reason I took one star off is because I wish it was clearly stated on the bottle when this was manufactured. All the bottle has on it is the lot # and mix of other numbers that mean nothing to the average consumer receiving it.

nice smell but wish was much stronger smell, bottle top was loose and leaked very little, need to check bottle caps to be tightly closed before packing and shipping, so it doesn't leak

Incredible genuine scent

El producto está bien el aceite esencial es bastante bueno pero cuando veía reseñas de que el tapón estaba mal no me podía creer que la gente no fuera capaz de abrirlo. Bueno pues me pasó a mí evidentemente es un tapón que tiene la rosca de seguridad en el que hay que apretar hacia abajo y luego girar. A ver he abierto muchos botes así y son botes de seguridad para los niños son botes imposibles incluso para los adultos. Y este es un bote imposible debe tener un defecto se pasaba de rosca y el tapón negro aunque lo intentaras bajar no bajaba y simplemente giraba sin hacer nada no enganchaba a lo blanco de debajo para darle vueltas así es que tuve que reventarlo y buscar otro bote con otro gotero para poderlo usar. Otra cosa que viene mal es no venir con gotero. Yo trabajo con aromaterapia y otras marcas más generosas y en mi opinión profesionales porque tienen en cuenta esto te viene un gotero aparte para que se lo puedas cambiar este no tiene ese detalle. Pero bueno yo tenía de otros botes y lo he podido usar porque acabo reventado el tapón que venía.

Product is as listed (which is the most imporant tbh). Used this a lot for my migraines and the price is reasonably good for the quality. This is my second purchase and I don't think I will buy another brand unless this company shuts down one day. (Please don't shut down.)

Great mint fragrance, opens up nose blockage

I got the best peppermint oil from the brand I depend on the most. Effective to cool down skin itching . Great product.

Me llego en perfecto estado, el aroma es muy potente, llevo un par de semanas usándolo y no ha perdido el aroma inicial, lo utilizo de distintas formas estoy satisfecho, de 5 a 8 gotas bastan en el difusor para aromatizar todo un cuarto, también para uso terapéutico es excelente para quitar los dolores de cabeza, no recomendable usar en proceso de alimentos