Promoting health: Introducing an eco-friendly herbal mosquito repellent extracted from local sweet orange peels

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.