Irish Spring Soap as Mouse Deterrant

It doesn't work for deer. One year I hung bars of Irish Spring around my garden hoping to deter the deer. They seemed to like it.

I used a couple dryer sheets in my snowmobile a few summers ago. In the fall i found them as a base for their nest.

Also, based on experience.... NEVER USE MOTH BALLS. holy ****, it took most of the summer for that smell to go away.

Don’t work. The electric things don’t work, nothing does . Must seal any opening bigger than a dime.
I am fighting mice in a cabin I have in the woods.

Tried peppermint, mothballs ,oils, steel wool. poison,traps. I’m not there f/t but a cat is a good choice.
There are down sides to traps and poisons as rotting carcasses really stink up a area.

we tried the Bounce sheets and Irish Spring thingy several years back. Mice made a nest from the sheets so I guess the soap trick didn't work for us either.
We use Tomcat bait traps outside the camper and I've closed up every crack and small hole that mice can enter.

Don't we all wish it was that easy....

It was suppose to be good to keep deer away from fruit trees. A few years ago I hung a few in mesh bags. They never touched the soap but the trees got chewed real good. The wolves eventually thinned out the herd.

Also...
As a test I set some mouse traps on top of Bounce sheets. Eventually every trap had a dead mouse in it.

From over 40 years of experimenting at the cottage the only things that work are traps and poison.
DEET for bugs.

Doesn't do much for mice, but works well to keep elephants out of the camper.

Well, original Irish Spring bar soap is the only soap I've been using since it hit the US market in 1972. Considering we keep several bars of Irish Spring inside all of our campers for the last 20 years, I can honestly say, we've never had mice.

Coincidence? Well maybe? But.... who knows!

Yep! Irish Spring soap and "original scent" Bounce fabric softener sheets. Hard to tell how good it works, but the camper does smell great in the Spring!

Also, the Bounce sheets seem to help in absorbing moisture in the camper.

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