Some Mosquito Repellent Effect of Fragrances and Flavors

Some Mosquito Repellent Effect of Fragrances and Flavors

Summer brings, in addition to the hot sun, and always around you mosquitoes. There are many very effective mosquito repellent products on the market, are trying to help everyone solve this headache. You can buy according to the need.

Today we will briefly introduce some mosquito repellent effect of fragrances and flavors.

According to information, with the repellent effect of compounds, the strength of the repellent activity and the length of repellent time, and the structure of the compound. Effective repellent compounds, amides account for a considerable majority, followed by esters, hydroxy esters and aromatic aldehydes, etc., while aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, ethers, lactones have obvious repellent effect of the species less or very poor. At the same time, the repellent effect and its physical and chemical properties related to the boiling point is too low, the effective time is short; boiling point is too high due to the volatility is weakened and make it no repellent activity.

Fragrance as a plant source mosquito repellent, the active ingredients mainly from natural plants, non-toxic side effects on humans, mosquitoes are not easy to produce resistance. In fact, many fragrance and flavor materials have certain mosquito repellent efficiency, including Geranium Oil, BPC Cedar Oil, 50% Terpineol, Cinnamon Leaf Oil, Citronellol and Geraniol mosquito repellent efficiency of up to 70% or more. Thyme Oil, Crude Mint Oil, Lavender Oil, Cinnamon Bark Oil, Geranium Oil, Terpineol and Citronellol have a mosquito repellent efficiency of more than 60%.

Natural plant-derived essential oils have good efficiency in repelling mosquitoes. 50% pine oil, oil of vanilla, oil of sorrel, etc. are better raw materials for repelling mosquitoes. However, it should be noted that a single plant extract prepared mosquito repellent, aroma monotonous, strong, stimulating, no hierarchy, low acceptance by the crowd, high production costs. Some developers began to pay attention to the fragrance raw materials based on mosquito repellent formulations, they have both good aroma and strong mosquito repellent effect, which can be used in related products such as mosquito repellent lotion, mosquito repellent soap, mosquito repellent air scent, mosquito incense, mosquito repellent candles, etc. With the dual role of plant source repellent as well as fragrance, thus can reduce the cost of pure plant repellent products, and at the same time can bring a pleasant feeling to the user.