No Traps. No Poison. No Rodents.

The pouches contain four essential oils — peppermint, cinnamon, cedarwood, and castor oil — infused into a natural corn cob fiber core. When exposed to air, the core slowly releases a concentrated botanical vapor that overwhelms a rodent's olfactory system from four different angles simultaneously. Mice can no longer detect food sources, sense danger signals, or follow pheromone trails — so their survival instincts force them to leave the area entirely.

The key difference from standard repellent pouches: our oils are infused INTO the fiber core, not sprayed on the surface. Surface-sprayed oils evaporate in 7 to 14 days. Infused oils release consistently for up to 90 days, with peak potency in the first 30.

Effective on every common rodent species — house mice, deer mice, roof rats, and Norway rats. The four oils target olfactory receptors shared across all of them, so the same pouch drives out mice and rats alike.

This is the #1 reason peppermint oil and single-scent repellents fail. When a mouse encounters the same scent at the same concentration over and over, its nervous system reclassifies the signal as non-threatening. It's called olfactory habituation — and it's why your cotton balls stopped working after a week.

HavenGuard uses four distinct essential oils, not one. A complex, multi-compound scent profile creates a shifting signal that the rodent's brain cannot file as background noise. It's the same reason you can tune out a single steady tone but not a conversation — the complexity prevents adaptation.

Every ingredient — peppermint oil, cinnamon oil, cedarwood oil, castor oil, and the corn cob fiber carrier — is classified under EPA 25(b) as "minimum risk." These are the same essential oils found in common household products. The pouch is a sealed fabric sachet, not a liquid or loose powder.

Safe around dogs and cats. Safe in a garage where your grandkids play. Safe inside an RV where you sleep. Safe in a barn with livestock. No secondary poisoning risk like you get with rodenticides — nothing dies, nothing gets carried up the food chain to your pets or local wildlife.

We designed this product specifically so you never have to choose between effective and safe.

No. Unlike mothballs — which sublimate into a toxic gas that deposits a chemical film on every surface and can leave an interior smelling like naphthalene for years — HavenGuard pouches release a clean botanical vapor that leaves no residue, no film, and no lingering odor. The scent is pleasant while active (peppermint and cinnamon) and leaves nothing behind when the pouch is spent.

Safe for leather seats, fabric upholstery, fiberglass, gel coat, vinyl, carpet, and every interior surface found in cars, RVs, boats, and equipment cabs.

Up to 90 days of protection from a single pouch, with peak potency in the first 30 days. We recommend replacing pouches every 30 days for the strongest, most consistent repulsion — that's still 30+ times longer than a peppermint-oil cotton ball and 2 to 3 times longer than most surface-sprayed competitor pouches.

For seasonal storage — winterizing a classic car in October, opening it back up in April — a monthly swap covers the entire off-season with zero drop-off in effectiveness.

It depends on what you're protecting. One pouch covers approximately 100 to 125 square feet of enclosed space. General guidelines:

A car, truck, or motorcycle in storage — 2 to 3 pouches (engine bay, cabin, trunk or saddlebags).

An RV or camper — 5 to 8 pouches (engine compartment, galley cabinets, storage bays, sleeping area, HVAC blower housing).

A boat — 3 to 5 pouches (engine compartment, cabin, storage lockers, bilge area).

A tractor or equipment cab — 2 to 3 pouches (cab interior, engine housing, any enclosed storage).

A garage, shed, or barn — 1 pouch per 100 to 125 sq ft of enclosed space, focused on entry points and known problem areas.

A home with a rodent issue — 5 to 8 pouches covering kitchen, pantry, garage, attic or crawl space, and any rooms with signs of activity.

Our 5-Pack covers most single-vehicle or small-space needs. The 8-Pack provides full coverage for larger RVs, boats, homes, or multi-vehicle garages.

Place where mice travel, not where they're most visible to you. Rodents follow edges, walls, and dark enclosed spaces.

For vehicles and equipment: inside the engine compartment near the wiring harness, inside the cabin or cab, in enclosed storage compartments, and near the HVAC air intake or cabin air filter — the #2 nesting target after the engine bay.

For homes and buildings: behind the refrigerator, behind or under the stove, under sinks, inside pantry cabinets, in the garage near entry points, and in attics, basements, or crawl spaces.

The key principle: place where mice go, not where people go. Behind appliances, inside closed compartments, and along walls near known entry points.

Every order includes a placement guide with positioning recommendations by space type.

Because it uses 3x the oil concentration, four oils instead of one, and a slow-release infused fiber core instead of surface-sprayed application.

If you're replacing cheap pouches every 10 to 14 days, you're spending roughly $1.20 per day and still dealing with habituation — meaning the mice adapt and the product stops working even before it runs out. HavenGuard lasts up to 90 days per pouch with no habituation — and we recommend a monthly refresh for peak potency, which still works out to a fraction of what you'd spend chasing the problem with cheap pouches.

Over a storage season or a winter of home protection, you actually solve the problem instead of chasing the same rodents all winter. One set of HavenGuard replaces 2 to 3 cycles of budget alternatives.

But here's the real math: a $30 box of pouches versus a $3,000 to $12,000 repair bill. A $30 box versus a $450 exterminator visit that puts poison where your kids and pets can reach it. The ROI isn't close.

The pouch is a sealed fabric sachet. Even if a dog tore one open and ingested the corn cob fiber filling, every ingredient is EPA 25(b) classified — minimum-risk botanicals, not chemicals. This is a fundamentally different safety profile than rodenticides, which are one of the most common sources of pet poisoning.

No secondary poisoning risk either. With HavenGuard, nothing dies — mice leave the area alive. There are no poisoned, disoriented rodents staggering around for your dog or cat to find and eat.

For prevention — stopping mice from settling into a stored vehicle, an RV, or a seasonal home — HavenGuard is designed to be the complete solution. Place the pouches, refresh monthly for best results, done.

For active infestations with an established colony already living inside walls, you may want to combine HavenGuard with snap traps for the first 1 to 2 weeks to catch resident mice while the pouches drive newcomers away. Once the existing population is removed, the pouches maintain the barrier on their own.

HavenGuard replaces the need for ongoing exterminator contracts, poison bait stations, and weekly reapplication of sprays or cotton balls.

Both. HavenGuard is formulated to drive out every common rodent species — house mice, deer mice, roof rats, and Norway rats. The four oils target olfactory and chemosensory receptors that all rodents share, so the same pouch that clears mice out of a kitchen will clear rats out of an attic, garage, or crawl space.

One note on sizing: rats have a larger home range than mice, so for confirmed rat activity we recommend adding 1 to 2 extra pouches per area compared to the mouse-only guidance above. Place them along travel routes — rafter beams, pipe chases, garage perimeters — not just near food.

That's exactly how they're designed to work. HavenGuard slots into your existing winterization routine alongside fuel stabilizer, battery tenders, moisture absorbers, and vehicle covers. It fills the one gap in the standard checklist — rodent prevention — that currently has no proven, trusted product the way Sta-Bil or Battery Tender own their steps.

Place the pouches as the second-to-last step before you put the cover on. That's it. Four minutes added to your routine. The pouches handle the rest — up to 90 days per placement, with a monthly refresh for peak strength.