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FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF HERBAL MOSQUITO REPELLENT CREAM

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Prashant Jatkar1*, More Vrunal2, Maniyar Mithun3, Vishal Waghamare4
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si10.00252

Abstract

The medicinal plants include a variety of biologically active components that aid in the prevention and treatment of a wide range of diseases. The essential oils have great fragrance and repellent activity. Mosquitoes bite can cause discomfort and transmit the vector diseases such as dengue fever or malaria that affected mankind. Mosquitoes are attracted human blood contains albumin to expand its balls and bite one human into another humans, thus transmitting the vector-borne disease to humans. This research is focused on the formulation and evaluation of herbal mosquito repellent composite to repelle mosquito from biting to human being. Topical mosquito repellent cream was formulated with varying concentractions of extracted essential oil. Formulated cream was evaluated for different parameters like pH, Spreadability, Washability, Mosquito repellent activity etc. The F3 formulation has good evaluation metrics and is effective against mosquitoes. The oil extracts in F3 formulations may have potential of mosquito repellent and it can be made into commercially available essence stick, gel formulation.

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