Garlic Lemon Grass Mosquito Repellent

Name: MIKE JOSHUA BERNARDINO
Course: BSABE
INVESTIGATORY PROJECT ON
GARLIC LEMON GRASS INSECT REPPELENT
ABSTRACT
The study aims to contribute cheap and easy homemade organic repellent in preventing mosquitos.
About 1 bundle of fresh lemon grass and 8 cloves of garlic were used. These are made of their extract.
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Its effect is comparable with the commercials repellent and the garlic lemon grass mosquito repellent is
recommended because it is no harm in skin, cheaper and natural.
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Introduction:
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Lemon grass and garlic, is scientifically known as (Cymbopogon) and (Allium sativum) is commonly found
throughout the Philippines. Lemon Grass is a perennials grass in the family poaceae grown for its
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fragrant leaves and stalks use for flavoring. Garlic is a plant with long, flat grass like leaves and a papery
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The most common problem in the household and farmers are insects and mosquitoes that cause dengue
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fever. Garlic makes a powerful natural insect repellant in any variety of crawling and flying insects
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including mosquitoes. Lemongrass oil is an effective insect repellent against mosquitoes. Buying
insecticide is too costly nowadays. It is therefore the aim of this investigatory is to make a cheaper and
easy insect repellant.
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Objectives:
1. To be able to produce an effective organic insect repellant to prevent insects.

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2. To test the effectiveness of garlic lemon grass insect repellant.
Assumptions:
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1. That the extracts of lemon grass and garlic can be converted into insects repellant.
2. That produces garlic lemon grass insect repellant can repel insects.
Review of Literature
Going back of the native way of repelling insects. Prices of insecticides are too costly nowadays. We need
to find out what are those plants that can be used to repel insects.
Herodotus, who noted that in ancient Egypt the oil of a particularly awful smelling castor-oil plant was
burnt in lamps, made the first recorded human use of an insect repellent.
MATERIALS:
o 1 bundle of fresh lemon grass
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o 8 cloves of garlic
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o Empty Spray bottle
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o Facetowel
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Methodology:
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A. PREPARATION OF LEMON GRASS AND GARLIC
About 1 bundle of lemon grass were gathered and cleaned and 8 cloves of garlic are chopped into small
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pieces.
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B. MAKING OF ORGANIC REPPELENT
Chopped the lemon grass then boiled it for 15 minutes. Put the chopped garlic in the facetowel then add
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some water to get the extract. Then get the empty spray bottle put the garlic and lemon grass extract
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then mix.
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TESTING
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Two candies are dropped nearby the ant colony the other is sprayed with insect repellent while the
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other one are not. This is made to try the efficiency of the insect repellent. This was done until the ant
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approach the candy.
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Result and discussion:

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Table 1. Comparison between Organic and commercial insect repellant.
Garlic lemon grass repellent Commercial insecticide

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Size Bigger Smaller

Cost (P8.00 8 cloves of garlic)( 25 P 410.00 or more per bottle
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centavos labor)
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It can be note that the garlic lemongrass is cheaper since garlic is the only materials to be bought. While
the lemon grass get in the backyard.
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Table 2. Result in testing.
Minutes Candy sprayed with garlic lemon Candy without insect repellant
grass insect repellant
After 15 minutes
Ant start to approach
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After 20 minutes
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Conclusion:
I therefore conclude that garlic lemon grass insect repellant is an effective way to repel insects. It is
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economical because it comes from natural
Recommendations:
The researcher highly recommends the use of garlic lemon grass insect repellant to prevent and repel
insects from coming.
It is further recommended that other plants (like basil and rosemary) can be converted into organic
insect repellant.
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Name: MIKE JOSHUA BERNARDINO

GARLIC LEMON GRASS INSECT REPPELENT

hood around the flowers.

1. To be able to produce an effective organic insect repellant to prevent insects.

2. To test the effectiveness of garlic lemon grass insect repellant.

o 1 bundle of fresh lemon grass

Result and discussion:

Table 1. Comparison between Organic and commercial insect repellant.

Garlic lemon grass repellent Commercial insecticide

Size Bigger Smaller

economical because it comes from natural

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