How to Keep Mice Out of Your Home: 7 All-Natural Tips (Page 2 ) | March 22, 2025

2. Eucalyptus Oil
Nothing works better than pure and mild eucalyptus oil to keep mice away. The smell is unbearable for rodents like mice. All you have to do is soak a piece of cloth in eucalyptus essential oil and place it in places where these four-legged rodents like to congregate. Rats and mice should flee immediately.

3. Aluminum foil: the enemy of mice
Aluminum has a repellent effect on mice due to its smell, sound and smooth surface. Then you can seal the openings through which rats come with aluminum foil.

4. Lemon and pepper to repel
mice Mice are afraid of the smell of pepper and lemon.

A handy tip: Fill lemon slices with peppercorns and place them in the corners of the room.

5. Cloves for
mouse control This is also a smell that mice hate. All you have to do is stick a few cloves in a tea towel where your guests pass by.

Another option for greater effectiveness is a cotton ball soaked in clove oil.

6. Fight them with peppermint oil.
No chemicals are needed to keep rats away. Mice find the smell of mint so repulsive that it keeps them away. The procedure is as effective with peppermint as with spearmint. Invest in essential oils for a very powerful action against pests.

If you are worried about them getting on your laundry or other areas, you can put a few drops on it. A new home is likely to be abandoned by mice soon. As for their well-being, you don’t have to worry. The smell will scare them off, but it won’t make them drunk.

7. Drink coke.
Rats do not survive if they drink cola. All you have to do is put a jar of this drink within reach of the rats. If they try, they will die.