HorseScentS Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) I'm tempted to hog this idea in secret, but if it works it could save lives. Maybe someone else is already doing this. Last week someone posted about scenting salt, so I was researching that and ended up on aromaweb wanting to venture into using EOs. Since I live on a rural creek I'm always thinking about new ways to repell snakes, beyond my mothball throwing efforts. So I Googled to see if EOs can be uses for repelling snakes, and learned about cinnamon, clove and eugenol oils being used as snake repellent even by some government agencies. Methods involved scenting hot air to force through buildings, mixing the EOs with water for a spray, and saturating cloth and cotton balls with the EOs. So I thought, hey, why not scent bags of rock salt with the EOs and scatter the salt on the ground to make snake barreiers. I'm wondering if it could be cheaper than the ridiculously expensive snake repellents at home improvement and farm supply stores, and could be a good seller too. I wonder what type of rock salt would work best, how long it would last and hold a scent on the ground, how and what amount of the EOs to scent the salt best, and other considerations. Discuss. :-) :-) :-) Edited December 21, 2014 by HorsescentS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beckemmons Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 This I will hav to follow! I have a snake phobia. If I could live in a snow filled place year round just to avoid snakes I would! Lol I drive my husband nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonshine Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I am in!! Keep me posted I hate those creaturesI got cats to kill the mice to remove their food source but the cats started raiding nests and bringing baby's up to the house! YUCK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) Oh, gross! One of my rescue dogs brought a mouse inside a few weeks ago, and it was not a regular field mouse but had a darker gray coat with white pattern on it. And it was from the same spot that my other Catahoula got bit by a pygmy rattler several times in the mouth and neck. Miraculously he survived. I was thinking that salt crystals reportedly hold a scent for months so salt might make a super long-lasting repellent if it doesn't rain. I got four rescued cats to keep rodent and snake population down, but two immediately got killed by predators so I made the other two into indoor only cats. Edited December 21, 2014 by HorsescentS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 http://www.jadelouisedesigns.com/numerous-benefits-of-garlic-oil-and-how/ I read about a recipe for snake repellent that includes garlic, so I Googled for info on garlic EO. It's super sstrong so I'm wondering if 2 drops of garlic EO in 1 oz of carrier oil mixed with 10 lbs of rock salt would get 'er done. It wouldn't hurt to have several scents of salt to create bands of repellent that might deter more kinds of snakes. Still researching... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 http://www.hibiscuscoastseconds.co.za/natural-ways-repel-snakes/ This article mentions a list of plants that repell snakes and I need to search for EOs made from those. I'm interested in the plant the Zulus plant around their homes to repel snakes because that knowledge may go back to antiquity and really work. I read on a government document from Guam that hot air scented with cinnamon and clove will.drive snakes out of buildings, but when sprayed on a hard surface won't keep snakes from entering. But maybe salt saturated with cinnamon and clove EO thrown under my house would fill the space with hot scented air in Summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) http://www.hibiscuscoastseconds.co.za/natural-ways-repel-snakes/ This article mentions a list of plants that repell snakes and I need to search for EOs made from those. I'm interested in the plant the Zulus plant around their homes to repel snakes because that knowledge may go back to antiquity and really work. I read on a government document from Guam that hot air scented with cinnamon and clove will.drive snakes out of buildings, but when sprayed on a hard surface won't keep snakes from entering. But maybe salt saturated with cinnamon and clove EO thrown under my house would fill the space with hot scented air in Summer.Interestingly it's a garlic plant with purple flowers called Silver Lace or Society Garlic. It's very pretty and I want to plant some. We can use regular garlic EO instead.I'm also interested in the snake repellent plant from India...Googling... Edited December 21, 2014 by HorsescentS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 (edited) The Indian Snakeroot was used to treat bites and it's too expensive, plus no info on using it as snake repellent. Here's more snake repellent plants like Lemongrass, which I'd love to plant too. The EO might work for us. http://www.pinterest.com/catherinedupree/snake-repelent/ Edited December 21, 2014 by HorsescentS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Okay, here we go: This has the best info on which EOs were most effective based on snake testing while developing the repellent product described in this patent application. Read the right-hand column under "Claims," and 0019, then from 0035 down. All the EOs tested are listed along with a short list of the most effective ones. http://www.google.com/patents/US20010041694 Now we have the info we need to get this going.:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 http://www.agorganics.com/products/Liquid-Fence-Snake-Repellent-Granular-2-lb/12/677.html Liquid Fence is said to work very well and the link above show their ingredients as mint and thyme EO, plus rotten eggs. On the Rural Homestead blog they have a recipe for LF deer repellent which is water, rotten eggs and garlic. Heck why not include garlic in the snake recipe as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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