Promoting health: Introducing an eco-friendly herbal mosquito repellent extracted from local sweet orange peels
1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science. Georgia State University, Atlanta Georgia, USA.
2 College of Communication and Information, Kent State University, Ohio. USA.
3 Department of Oncology and Cancer Science, University of Utah USA.
4 Department of Chemical Engineering, Manhattan College, New York, USA.
5 Department of Zoology and Environmental Biology University of Nigeria Nsukka
6 Department of Environmental, Health and Safety, Marshall University Huntington West Virginia USA.
7 Faculty of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA.
8 Department of Chemistry, university of Connecticut, storrs, CT, USA.
Research Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2024, 26(01), 315–327.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2024.26.1.0014
Publication history:
Received on 03 December 2023; revised on 14 January 2024; accepted on 17 January 2024
Abstract:
With time, mosquitoes have grown to pose a severe threat to human health. Thus, the necessity to provide a sustainable solution to the mosquito problem in our environment emerges. Using mosquito coils and other locally produced ones has been documented in previous research. There is a health danger from mosquito coil smoke. Severe headaches, nausea, vomiting, respiratory issues, and exacerbation of asthmatic patients' respiratory symptoms have been reported as a consequence. Although numerous methods of mosquito control exist, an affordable, long-term solution still has to be created. The research goal was to use locally available plant materials in distant places to create a safe, economical, and environmentally friendly herbal insect repellent. Orange sweet peels are used to extract oil, which is then followed by material shrinkage and distillation. The two most common chemical components found in orange peels are limonene and linalool molecules. These findings suggest that the essential oil extracted from sweet orange peel may possess antibacterial and antioxidant properties, making it a highly efficient spray-on mosquito repellant for a variety of mosquito species.
Keywords:
Human health; Antioxidant; Locally sourced plant resources; Insect repellent
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