Mosquitoes are rampant in summer, disturbing people's dreams. However, small mosquitoes are troublesome to eliminate. When using mosquito repellent incense, they are worried that the harmful ingredients in the incense will affect their health. Other methods can not achieve good mosquito repellent effect. We all hope to have a natural and pollution-free mosquito repellent product that can help us deal with the annoying mosquitoes. We often hear that some plants can repel mosquitoes, such as mosquito repelling herbs, evening primrose, clove, pyrethrum, etc. among them, clove is a familiar plant. Can clove really repel mosquitoes?

    In fact, cloves really have a certain mosquito repellent effect, because cloves contain a component called eugenol, which has a good mosquito repellent effect. It is found that "clove repellent" containing eugenol has significant repellent effect on mosquitoes, low toxicity, safe use, only mild irritation to skin and eyes, and has good popularization and application  . The "compound eugenol slow release repellent" improved on the basis of "clove repellent" has better mosquito control effect. Eugenol can not only dispel mosquitoes, but also sterilize and relieve itching on the local skin bitten by mosquitoes. Eugenol has remarkable mosquito removing effect, bactericidal and antipruritic effect on local skin bitten by mosquitoes, fragrant fragrance and strong transdermal absorption, all of which make eugenol a natural plant mosquito removing agent worthy of development, popularization and application. In fact, eugenol has many other benefits besides repelling mosquitoes.

    As a natural flavor, eugenol has significant antibacterial effect and good antioxidant activity. Therefore, it can be developed into a good pharmaceutical excipient, food additive and dietary supplement with taste correction, antiseptic and antioxidant effects. Eugenol not only has good antibacterial and antifungal effects, but also has a good inhibitory effect on the synthesis of extracellular glucan of the main cariogenic bacteria (Streptococcus mutans), so as to achieve the effect of removing dental plaque, cleaning the mouth and preventing dental caries. In addition, it has the effect of anesthesia and pain relief, so it is widely used in the treatment of dental diseases.EugenolThe antipyretic effect of eugenol acting on the central nervous system and its good antioxidant and anti-tumor activities also deserve attention. Eugenol has a good development prospect and needs further research.