Cutter Insect Repellent 23T vs Longsleeve

Cutter Insect Repellent 23T is a DEET 23% skin-applied insect repellent from Spectrum, A Div Of United Industries Corp., EPA Reg. No. 121-87. EPA’s consumer database lists it at up to 8 hours against mosquitoes. The same registered formula is sold under 3 different product names. 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 Cutter Insect Repellent 23T

LONGSLEEVE

Cutter Insect Repellent 23T

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 23%
Mosquitoes up to 8 hours
No ticks time shown in EPA’s consumer tool
The other 77% is not itemized, even on its EPA master label
No other pests mined from its label
The same formula is sold under 3 names

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 us	Cutter Insect Repellent 23T
Made by	Hour 72, Inc.	Spectrum, A Div Of United Industries Corp.
Active ingredient	Picaridin 20%	DEET 23%
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 our EPA-accepted label; named to cosmetic-industry standards	Active ingredient: DEET23% Other ingredients77% the ingredient panel format on the product’s federal label The 77% is not itemized on the label. Federal rules require naming only the active.
Formula identity	One formula, one nameEPA registration-number format	This formula is sold under 3 namesEPA registration-number format
Federal label	on file since 2025EPA Pesticide Product Label System	on file since 2004 · view the federal label (PDF)EPA Pesticide Product Label System
EPA Reg. No.	101457-1	121-87

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.

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