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Essential Oils as Biofriendly Alternatives to Synthetic Insect Repellents

2026-04-21

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Most plant-based essential oil repellent products currently available on the market utilize a "green" approach based on the volatile properties of essential oils. In general, these essential oils contain terpenes, terpenoids, or phenylpropanoids that can be used to either (1) eliminate a human's scent through a process called odor masking, or (2) interfere with an insect's ability to detect a p...

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Literature Corpus work: 70454714-9b75-5b43-8101-88322d530277
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202604.1463.v1

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