Irish Spring Soap Deer Repellent

Irish Spring Deer Repellent is a natural doe estrous scent that keeps bucks and does apart. Deer scent is proven to work over 90% of the time in keeping deer from your property. Irish Spring Deer Repellent is a natural doe estrous scent that keeps bucks and does apart. Deer scent is proven to work over 90% of the time in keeping deer from your property.

Irish Spring Soap Deer Repellent

Deer have a very powerful sense of smell and hostas rank as a favorite sweet and inviting aromatic offering. Because deer can detect scents from a great distance, they are both drawn to the fragrance of hostas, but also quickly deterred if they detect the scent of any canine in the vicinity.

Reader Mrs. Poweska, who is 90, felt my canine advice was not very relevant to many readers, especially if having a “yard dog” is not an option. Therefore, she contacted not only myself, but also my parents, to provide what she has found is a far more economical, simple and most of all, effective alternative.

This summer at our family farm, hungry herds of deer have now seized upon us, bravely dining nightly in our flower gardens and even the landscape nearer to our house and garden sidewalks.

“Use bars of Irish Spring soap for your deer problem and they’ll go away,” Mrs. Poweska advised.

“Just use a grater and shave the bars of soap into slivers to scatter about your garden, flowerbeds or the stems of the hostas. The deer will no longer approach because the soap has such a strong scent. Also, in the spring, think about planting more flowers that bloom yellow. Deer are warded away by the color yellow. If you notice, the deer prefer to eat green leaf hostas as opposed to the yellow dual-toned leaves.”

Green bars of Irish Spring soap were originally launched in 1970, the year I was born, and I can recall my mom buying bars of it during my youth for our green tile bathroom at the farm. Developed and manufactured by the Colgate-Palmolive Company, it was first launched as a product in Germany and directed for overseas consumer appeal before it was also distributed to stores throughout the U.S.

The strong fragrance, a green tinted appearance and the brand name carved onto every bar of soap made the product unique. What further propelled sales of the soap, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, were a series of popular TV commercials featuring men and sometimes women showering (seen from the waist or shoulders up) outside in a secluded wooded area near an Irish village, smiling and singing joyously as they lathered up with a bar of Irish Spring soap. The commercial spots also usually included a voiceover and footage of man’s hand using a pocketknife to cut away a piece of the soap bar to reveal the richness of its composition.

For the past month, my dad has taken the soapy advice of Mrs. Poweska and he reports the slivers of Irish Spring soap bars have fragrantly forced away our hungry deer and the soap hasn’t caused any harm to the flowers or vegetation.

On the subject of scent, on Tuesday, my mom made her recipe for a favorite Irish meal of boiled cabbage and corned beef with root vegetables, which always results in a strong aroma wafting through the house while it’s cooking. Paging through my three published cookbooks and previous columns, I was surprised that — to date — I have never published her recipe, which I’m featuring today.

The reason corned beef and cabbage was the featured menu item at the farm last week was at the request of my oldest brother Tom, who celebrated his 62nd birthday on July 23. Joined by Tom’s wife and my oldest sister Carol (all three who rank this meal as among their favorite dining delicacies), rather than birthday cake, fresh blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream was the dinner’s sweet finale.

Irish Spring Soap Deer Repellent

Irish Spring is a brand of soap that has been around since the 1950’s. It was originally developed by Colgate-Palmolive Company and was sold exclusively in Ireland. Its formula contains sodium lauryl sulfate, which helps to clean and refresh the skin. The product is now available across the world in many different countries, but it is still most popular in Ireland where it originated.

Irish Spring is known for its unique scent that smells like fresh cut grass and wildflowers. This scent comes from using essential oils like lavender, rosemary, and geranium that are added during production. The company also prides itself on being eco-friendly by only using recycled plastic bottles instead of paper ones for their products.

Irish Spring Deer Repellent is a product that uses the scent of the Irish Spring brand to deter deer. The product creates a barrier between you and the deer—a barrier that they don’t like.

The scent of this product is based on the scent of Irish Spring soap, but with certain scents added to make it more unpredictable. The company says that it contains “a blend of natural ingredients and essential oils” to make sure that you’re protected from all types of deer, and so far it seems to work pretty well!

List Of Irish Spring Soap Deer Repellent