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FABRICATION OF A NATURAL HERBAL MOSQUITO REPELLENT GEL
Author Names : Rajat Singh Raghav Page No. : 41-44
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ARTICLE TYPE: RESEARCH
Affiliation: Shri Ram Murti Smarak College of Engineering and Technology (Pharmacy), Bareilly-243202, (U.P.), India
DOI : 10.2016-19146535/ ;
DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/07.2020-87817722/
ABSTRACT:
Medicinal plants contain various biologically active compounds that are useful for the improvement of a disease life and treatment and are the main source of synthetic and traditional herbal medicine. The presence of various life sustaining constituents in plant made scientists investigate these plants for their uses. The objective of the work was to formulate a mosquito repellent gel containing natural ingredients which have their own advantages, and benefits the formulation was made. Because, in market many chemical based formulations are present which having many side effects, so I make the formulation based on herbal ingredients which have no side effect of any age group of person. A volunteer’s arms and legs rubbed with 1 ml solution of gel was exposed to 30 blood-seeking mosquitoes, and the number of mosquitoes that aligned orbiting the arm and legs were recorded in each minute for 5-minutes. And the analysis was carried out as a triplicate and mosquito repellent activities were found to be Outdoor and indoor field trials on mosquito repellent gel active ingredients, which were conducted on three days from 7 am to 11 am by application on volunteers’ legs and arms. 100% mosquito repellency up to 4-hours was observed for the gel for outdoor and indoor field trials.
Keywords: Herbal gel, mosquito repellent gel, formulation of gel, method for gel, natural ingredient for gel, Mosquito repellent.
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