Mice can become a headache for homeowners or people that’s renting apartments, Most people don’t like having them uninvited guest , but at the same time they don’t want to kill the little furry creatures. There is a natural way to get rid of them with out killing them.

It’s called peppermint oil, mice don’t like the strong smell the oil give off.

The smell is sweet to the human senses. Mice is known to have a keen sense of smell, that’s how they communicate with each other and that’s how they survive.

Once they get a whiff of that strong smell the peppermint oil give off, they take off running the other way. They can handle the smell.

Where to put the peppermint oil

When looking for a place to put the oil, you will need to know where the mice is coming from, so look for tiny holes in the base boards, and no, they won’t look like the mouse-hole in Tom and Jerry the cartoon, lol . The holes will be tiny. you also can look for mice droppings and see where they lead to. Once you find where the mice are coming from, then you will know where to place the peppermint oil.

How to apply the peppermint oil to keep the mice away

You will need a cotton ball, you take the cotton ball and place the peppermint oil on the cotton ball and let it soak. When the cotton ball has enough oil on it, then place the cotton ball inside the holes or cracks, also put them in the corners of cabinets. This will have the mice running in the other directions.

Safe for the family

You don’t have to worry about dangerous mouse traps poisons, especially if you have little kids or pets, and plus it’s safe for the environment. You can even use the oil in day cares.

Can you imagine your child finger caught in a mousetrap, or your beloved pet eating mouse poison, or how about coming home and it smell like a dead mouse, because a mouse ate the mouse poison and crawled in the walls and died. The oil fix all these problems.

Leaves the house smelling good

Peppermint oil gives off a present aroma that will have the house smelling good, you don’t have to use it for mice only. You can place cotton balls all around the house for air-freshener.

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