Skin-Applied Repellent Ingredients
The following are active ingredients in EPA-registered skin-applied insect repellents:
- Catnip oil -- EPA pesticide regulatory information (Nepeta cataria, also known as catmint) (4 products)
- Oil of citronella (3 registered products; also used in unregistered products that meet the requirements for exemption from registration)
- DEET (more than 500 products)
- IR 3535 -- EPA pesticide regulatory information (3-[N-Butyl-N-acetyl]-aminopropionic acid, ethyl ester) (about 45 products)
- p-Menthane-3,8-diol (pmd) -- EPA pesticide regulatory information (6 products)
- Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus (contains pmd, but is a separately regulated pesticide chemical) (6 products)
- Picaridin (about 40 products)
- 2-undecanone -- EPA pesticide regulatory information (or methyl nonyl ketone) (1 product)