Field & Tackle
An American Outdoor Journal · Est. 1974
Hunting · Tick Season 2026

5 Reasons Outdoorsmen Are Switching To Pinemoor This Tick Season

By Wade Patterson · Contributing Editor · 3 min read

Reason 1The bug spray you've been using might be more dangerous than the ticks.

Conventional bug spray.

DEET is a solvent strong enough to melt fishing line — and it only rides your skin for a few hours.

Permethrin is worse: a pesticide the EPA calls "likely carcinogenic," made for clothing, never your skin.

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Reason 2Ticks Hunt By Questing. The Compounds In Pinemoor Stop That

A tick questing in the grass.

A tick is blind. It finds you by the CO₂ you breathe and the scent off your skin.

A spray only masks one patch — so the tick crawls to a spot you missed. Pinemoor changes the scent off your whole body, so it finds nothing.

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Reason 3Taken Internally, Pinemoor's Herbal Blend Of Extracts and Plant Compounds Protect Your Entire Body

You take it by mouth, so the compounds come out through your skin and sweat — covering your whole body, no patch missed.

And the carvacrol in oregano can even kill ticks on contact — something no spray does.

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Reason 4The Amish have used these plants for hundreds of years.

An Amish family tending their garden.

Long before chemical bug sprays, Amish families worked their fields and gardens from dawn to dusk in heavy tick country — leaning on the very same garden herbs to keep the bugs off.

Pinemoor bottles that old-world wisdom, at modern concentrations, in a pure maple syrup base.

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Reason 5In lab testing, they beat DEET, permethrin, and picaridin.

Carvacrol (Oregano) 95% Thymol (Thyme) 92% Geraniol (Geranium) 88% DEET 72% Picaridin 65% Permethrin 58%
Illustrative summary of relative repellency in published lab assays; results vary by species and concentration.

In published repellency testing, the compounds in Pinemoor's herbs beat all three head-to-head — by a wide margin, not a slight edge.

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