Quick Tip: Simple and Natural Mice Repellent
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2017
- Mouse in the house? Been there, done that! Ways to keep mice out, including the use of Peppermint Oil as a natural repellent. How to keep mice away.
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I was looking for ways to eliminate the mice problem of my house and found it ,but I also fall into the trap of your beauty and love it ,thanks for the advice
Confirmation 👍Yes. It really does work. As soon as I discovered this video I went to CVS and bought some peppermint oil. I used cotton balls everywhere around the house (even in the vents) and it was really strong but I didn't mind the scent, as long as it did the job. The mice were gone(or dead) in a few days. I would definitely recommend anyone to do this if you have a mice problem.
That's awesome, Tiffany! It really does work well.
Hi Tiffany, is this still working for you or did they come back?
It actually doesn't
@@ZupE891 Eventually, after a while,.I did hear some scratching noises which turned out to be another mice problem. I bought some Tomcat glue traps from Walmart and caught 2 of them within 2 days. The peppermint oil doe work really well but the downside is if you're not consistent with the cotton balls they'll probably come back. I use an electric plug in now. It sprays the peppermint oil throughout the day to keep the scent in the house. Haven't heard or seen anything since.
@@beverlybogard4840 maybe you're doing it wrong.
If you use traps, make sure to put peanut butter underneath the clips of the trap, and on top. if you put something sticky underneath the bait area, it'll make them work for it and set the trap easier. I've got 5 mice on the same spot using that trick. I am now looking for a way to deter them, will use peppermint oil and trap.
Thanks for the tip, Eddie!
Or GLUE sunflower seeds onto the trap and put oats in the peanut butter!
I have rodents attacking my veggies in my garden. We set up traps and we caught some but they keep on returning. I hope this will masks their scent trail enough for them to stop coming to my yard. Thanks for the tip!
You're very welcome. My mom has been battling raccoons in her corn. So she set up a radio to play at night, along with some lights. It's helped. I hope you can keep those pesky varmints away.
Thank you. I will get some peppermint essential oil tomorrow. I tried whole cloves around the sides of the walls, just today. We shall see how it goes. Thank you gain.
Sounds great, April! Thanks for watching the video.
I have used the glue traps they worked, but peppernint oil is cheaper. I only used a drop or two on cotton ball
What about mint toothpaste? And how long will it last.
Thank you
Thank you so much for this!
Thanks for watching!
What is a safe mice repellent around cockatiels?
Thank U I am going to share this with my son and daughter in law & and use it myself😁 however I have 4 🐈 & well they protect the area very well,😊
Will it be ok to use a just a drop or two in hidden corners?
Thanks for the timing info. The few that I read said to use the natural products but didn't give a refreshing time, you did! Thank so much!!!
Deborah, that would probably work fine. If you find it ineffective, you could always up the concentration and/or add more to the corners.
I use this regularly it does a nice job.
That's awesome, Cynthia!
Hi.. I was told.. 're peppermint' that peppermint plants would be planted all around a farmhouse and especially barns.. because ( have you noticed?) Cats LOVE it.. it attracts them, they rub around it lots.. in turn, it's the cats or their scent, that then keep the mice away. . May explain why the oil alone is not 100% for some in the comments. ( info scouce was my aromatherapy course years back)
That is super interesting, Helen! We have almost always had cats around, so that would make sense.
Going to give this a try as I’m sure the mice are back. We had mice before in one of our kitchen drawers as they chewed through the tea towels and left little presents. I read somewhere that tin foil helps prevent mice from entering if you plug up any gaps. Going to see if any of the gaps need more foil. 😳
They love to leave a mess with their little presents, don't they? Ugh. Good to know about tin foil.
Steel wool , prevents them getting in
Where can I buy pepper mint oil?
Thank you, Mel - hehehe, you're so adorable! YUM!
I wonder if cleaning some areas (especially mopping and cleaning in the kitchen ) with not-too-diluted! Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Oil Soap might help ?
I was about to pick this stuff up tomorrow!
Good idea!
Spray bleach it will get rid of them
@@seeyanexttuesday23 Did the peppermint oil soap work?
@@almaburns6562 Hi! I have since moved but for that month I was dealing mice, yes, it worked! I soaked a few cotton balls in peppermint oil and placed them in small bowls around the corners of the room. The entire apartment building had mice, but my studio apartment did not after the peppermint trick. I switched the cotton balls with new ones every week. I moved after that so I can't say if this was a long-term fix, but I would try it and hope this works for you!
Good video, thanks : )
Thanks for watching, Doug!
My cat's just in my house to look beautiful and be cared for 😂😂
Yep, that's usually how it goes!!! lol
Thank u
Thanks for watching!
Lol “5-6 drops”…. Oops! I used wayyyy too much oil then lol 😳 it’s kinda hard to see sometimes and the cotton never looked wet/saturated (which I had been under the impression it should be) so I just kept going and going til I’d damn near used almost an ⅛ of the bottle on just one cotton ball 😬😝 I was also kinda worried the peppermint oil wasn’t strong enough cuz even with all that the smell wasn’t very potent, so I doused a few other cotton balls with clove and eucalyptus oils just to be safe and cover my bases, and also potentially find out if any of the oils were more/less effective… Haven’t really learned anything on that last point, but something seems to be working at least cuz we finally had our first quiet night in a long while… So happy to have found a safe and effective method for repelling rodents!
Nice!
Chilli powder really messes up their noses.
I'm reading where it's toxic for dogs (I'm not sure about cats yet). I read that even the smell can be irritating to their powerful noses. So my question is, if I put it in one particular closet and keep the door shut, is the smell still powerful enough to kind of seep through the cracks? I don't want to harm my dogs but I have one particular closet that is apparently a mouse heaven per the evidence they leave behind.
I think that it would work better if placed more evenly throughout the house, but you might try it the way you are wanting. It might work. We never did have trouble with our cat.
@@MelLockcuff Did you use cotton balls only, or did you spray with the peppermint also? I'd love to use a diffuser or the plug-ins but I'm worried because I have a cat also & I've heard oils can be a problem for cats...
@@almaburns6562it’s supposedly toxic to cats.
@@JadeK297 Well, it didn't do nuthin' to repel the mice so there's that.
Impregnate stainless-steel wool in type-s or type-m mortar and jam it in to the areas you need to plug, it will get rock-hard in a month.
I sprayed a foot spray with peppermint oil in it, didn't stop the mouse coming back
I'm so sorry to hear that! You may try using just straight peppermint oil. Make it strong. Hope this helps!
All peppermint extract is is peppermint oil mixed with alcohol.
Can you tell me a good brand
I use Essential Oils.
Hi Mel. I have two inside-cats that are both good hunters. The basement is half dirt and half cement, so I've even found moles or voles down in the basement where there are some cracks and crevices in the foundation. I even found a complete 2ft long black snake's skin that it shed while going into the basement. (I've since filled that crack with cement) I don't care for snakes and it might even make me scream like a little girl if I came across one in the basement of my house. I usually can get the mouse away from the cats and throw it outside to die. The last thing I want is the smell of a dead mouse. So, recently I found droppings in my silverware drawer in the kitchen. I kept a few packets of ketchup in the back of the drawer with some plastic ware for picknicks and that is what attracted them. All that was left was tiny pieces of foil from the packets and a bunch of droppings. So I took everything out of the drawer and washed everything in hot soapy water, including the drawer it's self. It was spick and span clean yet this morning I found a few dropping in the drawer again. So this tip of yours is timely for me because for the life of me I couldn't remember which herb it was that they hate. So, thank you for the great tip!! {PS- cleanliness doesn't matter with mice, so don't feel bad about that. Of course, if you leave food out for days you for sure will get them. I keep a spotless kitchen, but now they are getting brazen by coming upstairs even with the two cats up there. I can hear one in the ceiling and I usually let the cats up in the attic to play and hunt, but it is too cold right now to keep the stairs down. I'm sorry for rambling and typing out a novel here but I wanted to say thanks for your help!!
You're very welcome! I hope you're able to keep them away. They're such pesky critters, aren't they? And as for the snake, yikes! But at least it was a black snake, which should help keep the bad snakes at bay.
Very informative video from a very beautiful woman ! Thanks .
Thanks, Rosenberg. I hope that the video is helpful.
Will this harm the mice at all? I'm looking for something to deter them, not hurt them in any way...
Robert, as far as I know, it only deters them.
@@MelLockcuff Ok, thanks for that, although the little sweetie isn't too much of a nuisance at the moment. He's turned up a couple of times on my living-room table and I've seen him a few times in the kitchen, so it's not a problem. And I'm intending to get a cat fairly soon, having lost my Patchy back in 2021, so that should put him off!
Sorry, this is not working for me.. right now, I can hear one in my drop ceiling in my bathroom, and I just doused the living crap out of my bathroom ceiling with a peppermint oil / water mix. I did two teaspoons of peppermint oil in 16 oz of water. It's not working for me, sorry
OKay, I have tried 6 different brands of peppermint oil . different steel wool. Um, oh yeah, traps of every kind , irish spring. They are not phased by any of these remedies. I am so sick of sleepless nights. Anyone have a new idea, that actually works?
Jeannie, before we started using the oil, we had the same problem. So my husband took the traps, put peanut butter on them, and also wound thread through the peanut butter. They'd get the thread stuck in their teeth, and they couldn't get away before the trap would get them. It was the only thing that worked for us way back when we lived in an old farmhouse that had a bad mouse problem.
Closing the holes where they are coming. I had 7 mice over the course of two months when I first moved into an apartment. Pest control, traps, peppermint oil. I did it all. Then, my neighbor unscrewed my dishwasher. I wish I could upload a pic. Three large holes, one as big as my head in the wall behind the disherwasher. That is how they were getting in. They had to completely repair the sheet rock.
You can get "Great Stuff" expanding foam to put on top of the steel wool. But I guarantee you, because of my experience, I know there is a craw space, or crawl spaces you have not found. It could be behind stove, fridge, dishwasher, or somewhere else in the home. Best of luck.
@@oceanbreeze1897 very true. We had to do the same thing in an old farmhouse we lived in. If you can find a way to fix the holes, it will curb the problem quite a bit.
use gloves to place the stuff around bc they can smell your scent...
@@MelLockcuff your suppose to set traps (with gloves on due to your scent) without bait for several days, then with bait but dont set trap for several days...then fully set trap with peanut butter
How often do you think you need to refresh the smell? Oops, you answered it. Thanks.
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What about planting peppermint around your house?
That could work!
@@MelLockcuff
I bought 4 plants and got some lemon balm and wintergreen snips from a friends house. I put the snips in water to root. I'm planting it all around. Hopefully they'll stay away; at least during the warm weather. I plan to harvest all the leaves and use those during the cold months. Hoping.
I guess it must have to be the strength of the oil's scent. I tried putting potted peppermint plants in each room. They ate the leaves and stems down to the roots; like it was a rodent delicacy. I was mad as a wet Banty rooster. How can they eat their repellent? I am finding varieties they don't want to eat; so far. I'll keep you updated.
Steel wool !
Have cats in the house 😹😹😹😹😹😹
Boy.ill tell ya what I use...(and when I first heard it then I thought they was cheap and tacky but the glue traps work like a charm sometimes they catch three and four mice each I vouch for the glute traps once they get on it they can't go anywhere they're done
Hmm, that's really interesting, Lynda! I may have to try that.
Always work. Just do visual check of them. A dab of hot glue keeps them from dragging it. Tile, wood, vinyl.
So do u just put the glue trap against the wall by itself or do you place something on top of the corners to keep it from mvg? Im afraid the mice being stuck will run off with it.
@@mdunn2310 you can put them wherever you want,I put them in they're pathways where I see alot of feces you don't have to worry to much about them dragging it off
@@lolodee3528 they definitely will run off with it and will sometimes get off the glue. So putting a dab of hot glue to secure it is a great idea
I live a van. They are always in my van. I can here them. Peppermint oil.
They be a real pest that gets out of hand very quickly.
You don't live down by the river do you?
I hear bleach works very well also they hate the smell of bleach
That's interesting, Katrina!
i use peppermint for my engine compartment 200 bucks they ate the wires
I tried mint mouthwash and the mice come running out of their hiding spot as soon as I put it on one side of the chair an they came running out the other side so I put it all around the floors and it smells like mint in my house now lol ...fuk mice I want them dead like yesterday!!!! But I don't want the bodies in my home haha so mint is gunna have to do.. thanks for the tip
Jonathan, mint works very well to draw them out. I hope you can get rid of your mice once and for all! They’re pests.
My cat Dog is old and lazy he just looks at them
Haha! We used to have a couple cats like that. They were pretty hopeless.
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Honey you mean clove oil. 😂 sorry its the only thing that works for me and it don't take them long to say goodbye or try to run past the cats. 😂
How did you use the clove oil? In cotton balls or spray or what? Do you have to reapply it every month or so?
I keep a bottle of opened peppermint oil in my engine bay and there's still a lot of mouse poop. I have to power wash it monthly. I'm going to say it doesn't work for everyone.
Actually, have you tried the cotton ball method, where you're targeting different spots in your engine bay with peppermint oil moistened cotton balls? Most people use cotton balls because the bottle won't give off enough scent. My husband was actually telling me about others doing this with their trucks. Sometimes they'll even zip strip the cotton balls to different safe spots. And we've also heard of others using some sort of pepper spray that seems to work.
@@MelLockcuff I actually had wicks in the bottle to get the oil out but it didn't work. The smell was enough to make my eyes water while I drive but there was still droppings.
@@baosli Sounds like you've got mighty mice. Find something that works yet?
I just dropped my Kenworth truck at a service center and now I have 10-20 droppings and shredded paper on the floor. I cleaned everything yesterday. I don’t see any more evidence today. But I’m going to try peppermint oil tonight. I hope this stuff works. A mouse in an 18 wheeler is a nightmare.
Doesnt work
If you can't smell the peppermint oil. ..you have Covid 19 ;)
u should do a video without ur glasses on, ur cute!
DOESNT WORK
That's too bad! I've always had good luck with this repellant.
this also works for hobo spiders, win-win 😉/🐁🕷
THIS DOES NOT WORK! Peppermint oil does not work i’ve been using it for the past 2 years and it continues to fail. I have a mouse that kept making a nest in the flywheel of my riding lawn mower. I cleaned it out thoroughly and soaked the flywheel and engine bay in essential peppermint oil at 100% potency and the mouse came back and set up a nest in the peppermint covered flywheel again! my eyes and sinuses bothered me just being near all that peppermint and the mouse didn’t care at all. I had to move the mower into a new shed I built just to keep them out. one mouse died when it got mangled up when i started the mower. I’ve tried ammonia too and they don’t care. I’m still searching for a real deterrent but peppermint is not good as one from my experience
L H, I'm so sorry that this didn't work for you. It has never failed us, and we have lived in many mice-riddled houses over the years. Thanks for the feedback!
Sorry to hear that. Maybe the scent doesn't last because of the lawnmower being outside.
Me too.now i put bleach behind my stove i plug holes and they eat through it
@@donnarachiele1226 I don’t know if you own a house or an apartment but I’ve been using the white plastic resettable mouse traps I think it’s Tom brand. I buy a lot of them off Amazon and used them indoors until there was no more being caught and I set them up outside the perimeter of my home and near equipment I have to catch them before they find a way into my house. I’ve been working to seal up any holes in the house too. Currently I cut up some wood from a free pallet I got to make little shelters for the traps and those help guide the mice into the trap and keep the rain off them. Then each morning while drinking my coffee I walk the perimeter and check the traps. Knock on wood I haven’t gotten any for some weeks now. I am done being nice about it, I kill them all. They are disgusting and carry diseases. Just some ideas in case you want to try. I even trap them below my vehicles and in the engine compartment. It’s all out war for me.
Peppermint oil works,usually, but mice get used to ANYTHING u use after awhile, thats why u need to incorporate a multiplanned assault...some of this here some of that there then switch it up and most important is to make ur homestead impenetrable and that could take a little work depending on ur homes condition, so use these methods while u work on this task. The expanding foam will work wonders blocking some of their way n2 ur home.
DID NOT WORK, don't waste your money.............
So sorry to hear that, Maria! I wonder what went wrong?
MICE KILLER
Actually, peppermint oil only repels the mouse; it doesn't kill it.
They are pests and one can’t possibly live harmoniously with them. They are destructive and noisome. I’m sorry you feel that we are inhumane, but if peppermint oil doesn’t work, I have no choice but to try and trap them. I have children and also want to keep my food from falling prey to them.
Mice bring disease into your home! We are not supposed to live with them! Do you know how sick a person can get with them around? I DO! ITS RARE,BUT PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM DISEASE FROM MICE! I'm not for killing animals ,but we can't live with them!