Orange Guard Home Pest Control Spray with D-Limonene | All-Natural Food Grade Orange Peel Oil for Bugs, Ants, Roaches, Fleas, Palmettos and Silverfish - 32oz

THE SKINNY: • effectively kills and deters • provides peace of mind and worry-free usage • long-lasting EXTENDED REVIEW: I actually learned of Orange Guard in a conversation I had when I had the opportunity to meet the owner and creator of Orange Guard as he and his family live in my small town. I wasn’t necessarily in the market for a big spray, but after asking what he did for a living, I later went online and read more about the product. Though I’ve since purchased it online, I initially bought OG at a local hardware store after discovering I had a small stream of ants underneath my kitchen sink. USAGE: Normally, rather than attempting to kill ants by smothering my house with product, I prefer vacuuming up all visible ants and using a spray to create a sort of seal or deterrent near and around key entrance points. That way I’m neither breathing in or smelling copious amounts of chemicals. With Orange Guard, I don’t have to be nearly as scrutinizing over how much product I’m spraying as it’s both entirely natural and non-toxic. I still use the vacuum method to limit how much spray I’m using, but only bc it’s still got a pretty pungent smell. SMELL: The first thing you’ll notice with OG is in fact the smell... it’s a VERY concentrated citrus smell. Though it doesn’t smell “bad” (in fact I kind of like the way it smells), even the best smells can be overwhelming in large doses (think of that guy at the club who felt he needed 10 sprays of Drakkar Noir... nauseating!). Plus, it’s is rather acidic and such a concentrated amount can find its way to the back of your throat or deep within your nostrils, so no need to overdo it! Perhaps the worst invention was when popular brands of the poisonous alternative started adding scents to their products — I can’t think of a more dangerous and disregarding practice than attempting to mask something harmful with something pleasant, effectively causing people to spray and breathe high amounts of poison bc it no longer smelled of poison. EFFECTIVENESS: If we’re being entirely honest, OG is not as effective as it’s chemical-based alternatives. Like nearly all nature-based products — from cleaning supplies to detergents to medicine— custom-designed chemicals are hard to compete against. I’ve found the chemical-based products work FASTER, LONGER, and are ultimately more EFFECTIVE at both killing and deterring. HOWEVER... Orange Guard is still a highly effective product and while not necessarily the most capable, it absolutely gets the job down. But when you take into consideration the fact you’re not filling your home, and ultimately your LUNGS and the lungs of your loved ones, with harmful, probably cancer-causing toxins, it’s a no-brainer. I’d gladly take a product that’s roughly 85% as capable but 100% safer and healthier. Because ultimately all we’re really talking about are ants. And while admittedly annoying, I’m not ready to believe they’re so annoying as to justify willingly bringing poison into your home, your floors, your cabinets, and your bodies!

This stuff works really well to deter ants, although there are some drawbacks. The spray DOES work to deter black ants away from their trails. They disappeared from my infested kitchen after I sprayed their trails. However, this isn't a permanent deterrent. You have to reapply the spray after 2-3 days and continue to keep the infested area pristine to prevent recurrence of ants. The drawbacks are mild: the spray leaves a sticky residue and it has a very loud orange smell. However, the smell is fairly pleasant especially after opening a window for ventilation. It's really just a super strong orange scent. Could definitely be worse, and it fades after 2-3 hours. I have a cat and spray around the cat food area. The spray's scent and sticky residue do not harm my cat, which was very important to me. In sum: although this product has a couple drawbacks, it is an EXCELLENT temporary ant deterrent that has given me peace of mind. I am relieved and grateful that I don't have to break the first precept in order to eliminate the ants from my kitchen. Update April 11, 2023: I haven't seen a single ant since I wrote this review. I've only reapplied the spray twice since I last wrote this review. Seriously, this stuff is fantastic as long as you make the effort to keep the formerly-infested area free of crumbs! Update May 25, 2023: I have not seen a single ant in my kitchen ever since I first wrote this review over a month ago, and I haven't had to reapply the spray since April. This stuff is the real deal and it WORKS. Update July 27, 2023: Still no ants in my kitchen and I haven't reapplied since April. This stuff is amazing!!

Smells lemony and not chemical-ish at all. It works very well to kill and stop ants immediately but only lasts for a few days to a week. I will say this summer was extremely bad with the ants so maybe it isn’t as fair to this product in terms of the few days to a week. I do like its ability to work right away so I have bought multiple and will keep buying.

I would give it 10 stars if I could . I have been using orange guard since about 1997 when I first discovered it. We have lots of kids, gkids, ggkids and yes gggkids now, but at the time just a few. I like it because you can spray your cabinets, shelves, drawers, ect. and wipe them and bugs are GONE..I use it all the time. I even spray it along the doorways to keep critters out. It works. Only thing is, it is getting very expensive. Thank goodness I don't have to use as much as I used to...I do use it when kids come home as it is very safe around children and pets,

Smell is pleasant and if sprayed enough, will take out all crawling insects and bugs

I really wanted this to work, since it's safe around kids and pets. However, this didn't work at all as a permanent repellent for the ants in our kitchen--or even, as we discovered soon, as a temporary repellent. Per the instructions, we sprayed this at all the expected entry points as well as all the places where they were congregating, and the ants stayed away.... overnight. Then they returned. By the third or fourth time we applied this stuff, the ants weren't staying away at all, and our house smelled like a citrus orchard. I gave up and ended up using the more toxic Terro ant traps (with boric acid)--and the ants went away and haven't been back now for 3 weeks. Now, while it didn't repel our ants, it does kill bugs and spiders immediately, so if you don't have a shoe handy, or if you've got a ton of bugs somewhere, this is good at that. But that's not really why we bought this stuff.

This is our go to if we see a silverfish or any other insects. Recently, a huge roach got into our home and several squirts of this stuff killed it after a while. It wasn’t instant but it did its job. A few years ago I noticed some scout ants and after using this for a couple of days they never came back. I highly recommend.

In human experiments this decreased the vital capacity of lungs and 70% of this chemical is absorbed by the lungs into the blood. d-limonene has a long half-time in blood. Cite: d-limonene exposure to humans by inhalation doi: 10.1080/15287399309531702. d-limonene oxidizes via ozone present naturally in the air into formaldehyde, 4-acetyl-1-methylcyclohexene, and formic acid! It also decomposes into hydroperoxides Which then decomposes into sulfenic acid. Even worse studies show that the combination of small household amounts of limonene and oxidizing cleaners create harmful quantities of formaldehyde. Cleaners like ammonia also cause harmful gases. "Reactions with nitrogen oxides produce aerosol formation as well as lower molecular weight products, such as formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, formic acid, acetone, and peroxyacetyl nitrate (Altshuller, 1983)." Cite: Concise International Chemical Assessment Document 5, LIMONENE, World Health Organization 1998 ISBN 92 4 153005 7 "Inhalation of limonene vapor increases serotonin and dopamine levels in key regions of the brain that are associated with anxiety, depression, and OCD." The MSDS is not a good read. "Highly volatile, flammable" "product may be fatal if swallowed and enters airways." "Inhalation may cause irritation of the nose, throat, and respiratory" "Keep away from foodstuffs, beverages and feed." The active ingredient d-Limonene is basically distilled orange terpene just like distilled pine resin is turpentine. My personal experience using this product on a window sill and a few cracks resulted in itchy eyes, burning throat, followed by the same type of anxiety that comes on you do when you've been breathing forrest fire smoke and can't escape in the summer. Except this time in the comfort of my own overpoweringly orange scented home. Then a mild headache and aching lungs for several days. The orange smell is overpowering and takes days before it goes away because "subjects could detect the odor at 8 and 15 ppb" You also can't dispose of this in the garbage or down the drain because it's harmful to aquatic life! This stuff is used as a aircraft wheel degreaser with full PPE gloves, closed eye splash guard protection , apron. I wouldn't want my worst enemy to use this on their own home. It also has a shelf life which is not listed anywhere. As cited above it degrades in regular air into far worse chemicals that are also irritants and can harm your breathing. Don't take my word for it, look up the citations. Always be extremely careful when you hear extraordinary claims about all natural ingredients.