Having mice infestation is one of every home’s nightmare. There is nothing more horrible than seeing these pests running around in your home, eating crumbs from your floor, climbing on your dinner tables, and having their wastes lying around the corners.
You can always get an exterminator, use a mouse trap, or just trick with poison just to get rid of them. However, if you want a safe and humane way to make these little critters disappear, here’s the best answer for your problem.
All you need is a PEPPERMINT. Yes, a peppermint!
Mice hates its strong menthol smell and can be used as a safe natural mice repellent without drawing any blood.
How Can Peppermint Be Used As a Natural Pest Repellent?
This plant can be used as a natural mice repellent in the following ways.
Using the Peppermint Plant
You can prevent a mice infestation in your home by just having several peppermint deliberately positioned at various corners of your home both inside and outside as well.
Make Use of Peppermint Sock
You can also have some dried peppermint socks positioned at various points in your home. All you need to do is put some dried peppermint leaves in a sock and then tie the sock and have several of these tied socks put in different parts of your home especially in places where you feel these pests frequent by evidence of the smell of their urine and on sighting their droppings.
DIY Homemade Repellent Spray
You can also make yourself a repellent spray using peppermint. All you need to do is put dried peppermint leaves in a pot of boiled water. Allow the dried peppermint leaves to settle in the boiled water then strain the tea and let it cool at room temperature.
Next you need to pour the tea in a spray bottle and spray on different spots in your home. Spray indiscriminately on shelves, cabinets and closets, just about anywhere mice can get to. The mice in your home will find it extremely difficult to stay on your home and ultimately they will try to find a way out and of they can’t they will become less secretive and you can easily trap and capture them. You can also add peppermint oil to your peppermint tea in your plastic spray bottle to help with its strength.
Peppermint Cotton Balls
Another method you can adopt is to soak cotton balls in peppermint oil and leave as many as you can all around your home in places where these mice tend to congregate.
Peppermint is also very effective in getting rid of other pests and insects in your home such as:
Mosquitoes
Beetles
Aphids
Fleas
Ants
Bees
Squash bugs
Cabbage looper
White-flies
You can finally get rid of those mice without having any guilt of killing an animal or exposing your family to danger.