Snake oil is a fraudulent marketing allusion to the selling of fake medicines.

Snake oil may refer to:

Snake oil (cryptography), a fraudulent cryptographic method Snake oil method for generating functions Snakeoil (album), a 2012 album by Tim Berne Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley, Chapter 1: Snake Oil, a 2020 album by Thomas Wesley Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations, a book by John Diamond (2001) "Snake Oil", a song by Steve Earle off of the album Copperhead Road (1988) Snake Oil (TV series), a reality game show hosted by David Spade and broadcast on Fox