Cutter Insect Repellent vs Longsleeve
Cutter Insect Repellent is a Picaridin 20% skin-applied insect repellent from Spectrum, A Div Of United Industries Corp., EPA Reg. No. 121-99. EPA’s consumer database lists it at up to 8 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.
Longsleeve Repellent vs Cutter Insect Repellent
- 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: Picaridin 20%
- Mosquitoes up to 8 hours
- No ticks time shown in EPA’s consumer tool
- The other 80% is not itemized, even on its EPA master label
- No other pests mined from its label
- One formula, one name
The detailed comparison
Every line from EPA’s database or the products’ own federal labels, quoted and linked.
| Longsleeve Repellent made by us | Cutter Insect Repellent | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Hour 72, Inc. | Spectrum, A Div Of United Industries Corp. |
| Active ingredient | Picaridin 20% | Picaridin 20% |
| Mosquitoes | 14hrs 4 of 631 products in EPA’s database reach 14 hours. This is one of them. | 8hrs |
| Ticks | 14hrs | *hrs No time shown in EPA’s consumer tool. Per EPA’s legend, the company chose not to have a specific time shown. |
| 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 | Active ingredient: Picaridin20% Other ingredients80% The 80% 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 2008 · view the federal label (PDF)EPA Pesticide Product Label System |
| EPA Reg. No. | 101457-1 | 121-99 |
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 5.75% to 20% across 2 different active ingredients. 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.
| Product | Active | EPA Reg. No. |
|---|---|---|
| Cutter Advanced Repellent I | Picaridin 5.75% | 121-90 |
| Cutter Insect Repellent 5KT | Picaridin 5.75% | 121-90 |
| Cutter Advanced Insect Repellent | Picaridin 7% | 121-89 |
| Cutter Insect Repellent 7K | Picaridin 7% | 121-89 |
| Cutter Insect Repellent All Family | DEET 7% | 121-77 |
| Cutter Insect Repellent RDC006RA | DEET 7% | 121-77 |
| Cutter Insect Repellent RDC008RP | DEET 7% | 121-76 |
| Cutter Insect Repellent RDC013RG | DEET 7% | 121-78 |
| Cutter Insect Repellent RDD 003RL (SPF 15) | DEET 7% | 121-81 |
| Cutter Skinsations Insect Repellent 1 | DEET 7% | 121-76 |
| Cutter All Family Mosquito Wipes | DEET 7.15% | 121-56 |
| Cutter Insect Repellent Towelette #10TL | DEET 7.15% | 121-56 |
| Cutter Insect Repellent #CC129-15 | DEET 7.5% | 121-74 |
| Backyard Cutter Insect Repellent III | DEET 10% | 121-65 |
All rows from EPA’s registered-product data.
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