Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
Recommend you stop using any sort of oil on snakes! It tends to mess up future sheds​. That's why just a drop or 2 of Dawn or Ivory dish-soap liquid in a shallow, luke-warm water soak is better: it drowns the mites but it also rinsed away, causing no shed problems for the snake.
Petroleum-based oil products, such as Vaseline or many hand creams, cause scale damage. Olive or veggie oils are fine, just messy, and I wouldn't use them unless I had no other option (like the snake that got permethrin poisoning).