Eco Friendly Mosquito Repellent Finish on Fabric by Using Natural Herbs

Abstract

In textile, Finishing is one of the significant processes which augment the performance of the fabric and functional properties as well. Health is always thought to be an indispensable requirement for human beings to live without any stress and it aids in giving the best output of any work. Mosquito repellent textiles are one of the revolutionary ways to advance the textile field by providing the much-needed features of driving away mosquitoes, especially in the tropical areas a mosquito repellent textile protects the human beings from the bite of mosquitoes and ensures safety from the diseases like malaria and dengue fever. In This project is an exiguous endeavor in developing an eco-friendly mosquito repellent finished fabric using the herbal extract from Neem and Tulsi. The extracted chemicals are finished on to the fabric by pad-dry-cure process & exhaust process and are evaluated using a mosquito repellency activity test. The sequestering agent, wetting agent, cross linking agent is used for finishing mosquito repellent fabric. The different concentrations are used of Neem leaf and Tulsi leaf. In finishing treatment, the temperature is about 80⁰C, and the time is 30 minutes, and the total liquor is 150 ml. After heating the samples are removed and padding is carried out and the pressure of padding mangle is 3 bar. After drying and curing is carried out and finally samples are ready with mosquito repellent finish. Then the repellency behavior of fabrics was checked after washing.