Good Riddance Insect Repellent

Good Riddance Insect Repellent builds its range around a Tropical formula, sold in 100 ml and 250 ml bottles and aimed squarely at the bugs that ruin an Australian summer: mosquitoes, midges, and sandflies. The catalogue stays tight from there. A Sensitive formula in 100 ml is listed as safe for babies and during pregnancy, a Rescue Balm handles bites after the fact, and a few bundle packs group the three together, so a buyer can pick up prevention, a gentler option, and after-bite relief in one order. Every product is DEET-free and described as 100% natural, which is the whole reason a shopper would reach for this instead of the supermarket aerosol.

APVMA registration and clinical testing

What gives the claims some backbone is the regulatory side. Every product in the line is registered with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, and the company says the formulas went through two years of clinical testing. That is a meaningful step above the usual essential-oil spray that leans entirely on the word natural and asks you to take it on faith. APVMA registration is not trivial to obtain, and putting it front and centre tells you the brand expects to be checked. Good Riddance Insect Repellent also has a slightly unexpected market: it is marketed as safe to use on dogs, with a Darwin pet retailer cited as a stockist.

Retail reach and wholesale program

The commercial footprint backs up the positioning. The products appear in more than 1,100 retail locations around the country, so this is not a one-page operation shipping from a garage. Buying direct carries free shipping above AUD $79 and a money-back guarantee. A wholesale and trade program rounds out the sales side, and that mix of direct orders, retail shelf space, and trade supply is more infrastructure than a hobby brand tends to carry. At the time of writing a sitewide discount of up to 40% was running, steep enough that anyone buying at full price should probably wait for it to return.

Community involvement in Melbourne

The site carries a blog, an FAQ, a store locator, and a newsletter sign-up. The brand also says it gives 1% of sales to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. Good Riddance Insect Repellent is a Melbourne-based, family business, and that local, Australian-made identity reads as genuine rather than marketing dressing.

Checking mixed customer reviews

This is where the picture gets less tidy, and it is worth being straight about it. Trustpilot shows a 3.4 out of 5, drawn from only two reviews, which is far too small a sample to lean on either way. On Reddit, in threads on r/OutdoorAus and r/queensland, the product comes up with genuinely mixed reactions: some people rate it and say it works, while others call it greasy or complain that it stung their eyes. One user reckoned it underperformed against a competing brand in the heavy conditions of Vanuatu. The complaints land on feel and performance more than on any single consistent flaw, which is what unfiltered user chatter usually looks like.

Gap in independent ratings

The company's own website hosts a reviews page, but those are curated testimonials it selected, so they sit closer to marketing than to neutral evidence. No Google rating, Yelp, BBB, or Facebook star score turned up in searching. Good Riddance Insect Repellent has the shelf presence and APVMA approval of a legitimate, established product, but the public feedback from everyday buyers has not accumulated in the places shoppers usually check. For a brand in 1,100-plus stores, that gap is the one detail that nags at me.

Contact options remain limited

On the contact side, there is a contact form in the navigation and active social accounts on Facebook and Instagram (handle: goodriddancemozzie). No phone number, street address, or email appears on the homepage, with only Melbourne named as the base. A buyer who wants to confirm those details has only the contact form and a social DM to work with. For a consumer product backed by a money-back guarantee, a stated postal address or visible phone line would reassure anyone trying to work out where a refund request actually goes.

Comparing Good Riddance to Bushman

If you want an Australian-made, DEET-free spray with regulatory backing and you are comfortable buying largely on the brand's own assurances, Good Riddance Insect Repellent is a credible option, especially with that discount running and a guarantee in place. The trade-off is a shallow pool of independent reviews. Bushman, a DEET-based product with a long public track record in serious bug country, gives you proven knockdown and plenty of documented user experience to weigh. Good Riddance Insect Repellent trades some of that external reassurance for a gentler formula, and the APVMA approval gives that trade-off more grounding than a raw "natural" label alone provides.