Longsleeve · 20% Picaridin Insect Repellent Lotion
Put it on.
Go outside.
Forget about it.
Repellent meets skincare. Up to 14 hours against mosquitoes and ticks, in a fast-drying, fragrance-free lotion with 20% picaridin, 5% squalane, and 5% glycerin.
Launching soon · $26 · 100 mL · 30-day guarantee
The anti-bug spray
Bug spray had
a good run.
Old bug spray made you choose: get bitten, or spend the evening greasy and reeking. Longsleeve is a lotion. It dries down and disappears into skin. Up to fourteen hours later it's still working. You just can't feel it.
Fast-drying
Rub it in and get dressed.
Non-greasy
Protection, minus the slick.
Non-sticky
No tacky hands. No residue.
Fragrance-free
Nothing fighting your sunscreen or your dinner.
The formula
Reads like skincare.
Registered like a repellent.
The 20% picaridin does the repelling. The 5% squalane and 5% glycerin are why it lives on your shelf, not under the sink.
®Insect repellent lotion
from mosquitoes & ticks
Active ingredient
Active repellent.
Other ingredients
Delivers formula.
Emollient. Adds moisture.
Humectant. Holds moisture.
Decreases drying time.
Thickens formula.
Preserves formula.
Adjusts pH.
Preserves formula.
Manufactured for Hour 72, Inc · New York, NY
* Reacts during mixing to set the formula's finished pH. We list it anyway.
The Repellent Index
Compare Longsleeve to every EPA-registered repellent.
Federal rules require a repellent label to name just one ingredient: the active one. Everything else can appear as a single line reading “other ingredients.” So we read the federal label of all 631 EPA-registered skin repellents and put them side by side: protection times, pests covered, and what each one actually tells you.
Use with confidence on the whole family.
Registered protection
All day protection outside of the house.
- Up to14 hours
- Mosquitoes · Ticks Mosquitoes that may transmit West Nile Virus · Chikungunya · Dengue · Zika Ticks that may transmit Lyme disease · Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Up to8 hours
- Biting flies · Stable flies · Black flies · Gnats · Chiggers · Sand flies · No-see-ums
Registered claims. Protection durations and the insects and disease vectors named above were reviewed as part of Longsleeve's federal registration.
EPA Reg. No. 101457-1
No PE. No VC. One very long EPA review.
Hi. I'm Andrew. I made your bug lotion.
I used to trade derivatives. Then my pregnant sister-in-law needed serious mosquito protection during Miami's 2016 Zika outbreak, without dreading the thing she had to put on every day.
I spent two years on the formula and five more getting it through EPA registration. It's funded by a Harvard Business School prize and a National Science Foundation research grant. No private equity, no venture capital, no investors.
No board meetings. No growth targets. No one asking whether you'd notice if I used less squalane. You would. So I didn't. Because I believe the future should involve being outside more, not less.
Questions, complaints, unusually specific thoughts about mosquitoes?
drew@longsleeve.comI read it. I reply. It is genuinely me.
National Science Foundation SBIR research grant
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More reading: the product · the science · all nine ingredients.
Try it outside.
If Longsleeve doesn't earn a permanent place by the door, email me within 30 days. I'll refund you. No forms. No return shipping. No awkward breakup conversation.
