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3M Ultrathon Insect Repellent Pump vs Longsleeve

3M Ultrathon Insect Repellent Pump is a DEET 19% skin-applied insect repellent from 3M Company, EPA Reg. No. 58007-9. EPA’s consumer database lists it at up to 3 hours against mosquitoes. Longsleeve Repellent is 20% picaridin, listed at up to 14 hours for both mosquitoes and ticks. Every line below comes from EPA’s database or the two products’ own federal labels.

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Longsleeve Repellent vs 3M Ultrathon Insect Repellent Pump

LONGSLEEVE
3M Ultrathon Insect Repellent Pump
  • Active ingredient: Picaridin 20%
  • Mosquitoes up to 14 hours
  • Ticks up to 14 hours
  • All nine ingredients named on the tube
  • Fragrance free
  • Also covers flies, gnats, chiggers, no-see-ums up to 8 hours (per label)
  • One formula, one name
  • Active ingredient: DEET 19%
  • Mosquitoes up to 3 hours
  • Not registered for tick protection
  • The other 81% is not itemized, even on its EPA master label
  • No other pests mined from its label
  • One formula, one name
Every line is computed from EPA’s database or the product’s own federal label. ✓ on the register   ✕ absent from the register   – a lower figure, partial, or shared. Details and sources below.

The detailed comparison

Every line from EPA’s database or the products’ own federal labels, quoted and linked.

Longsleeve Repellent made by us3M Ultrathon Insect Repellent Pump
Made by
Hour 72, Inc.
3M Company
Active ingredient
Picaridin 20%
DEET 19%
Mosquitoes
14hrs

4 of 631 products in EPA’s database reach 14 hours. This is one of them.

3hrs
Ticks
14hrs
X

Not registered for protection from ticks (EPA’s legend).

Also covers
flies 8hgnats 8hchiggers 8hno-see-ums 8h

Mosquitoes and ticks only, per the mined label text.

Ingredients disclosed
Active ingredient: Picaridin20%
Other ingredients, every one named80%
Water, Squalane, Glycerin, Alcohol Denat., Acrylates Copolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Hydroxide, Caprylyl Glycol
our EPA-accepted label; named to cosmetic-industry standards
Active ingredient: DEET19%
Other ingredients81%
the ingredient panel format on the product’s federal label

The 81% is not itemized on the label. Federal rules require naming only the active.

Formula identity
One formula, one nameEPA registration-number format
One formula, one nameEPA registration-number format
Federal label
on file since 2025EPA Pesticide Product Label System
on file since 2006 · view the federal label (PDF)EPA Pesticide Product Label System
EPA Reg. No.
101457-1
58007-9

Every cell is EPA data or the product’s own federal label, retrieved 2026-08-18; registrations and labels change, so verify against the current product label. Published by Longsleeve, not affiliated with or endorsed by EPA. Methodology.

Same name, different product

Products with closely related names span 19% to 34.34%. The name on the front of a bottle is not a formula. Check the EPA registration number if you want to know what you are buying.

ProductActiveEPA Reg. No.
3M Ultrathon Insect Repellent 8DEET 25%58007-7
3M Ultrathon Insect RepellentDEET 34.34%58007-1

All rows from EPA’s registered-product data.

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