Talk:Citronella oil
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Why is Citonella oil effective as an insect repelent? --SAUNDERS 04:35, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the reference to Pelargonium citrosum in regards to insect repellent efficacy, because it lacks direct application to "citronella oil" which is from Cymbopogon's, not P.citrosum. It's not factually correct to apply P.citrosum to citronella oil, although I have included a link to the wiki article on Pelargonium citrosum. The oils from different plants may have some isolates in common, but that doesn't mean that what applies to one oil automatically applies to another oil. The reality is that citronella oil is a mixture of isolates, including citronellal, which is apparently in very low concentrations in P.citrosum. It's also important not to confuse isolates with the total plant oil, which seems to have also been happening a bit on this wiki page i.e. confusion between "citronellal" (the isolate) and "citronella" (the oil type). And by all means, let's include any references or research that shows that citronella oil is specifically not effective as an insect repellent, if such research exists, but let's not do shakey extrapolations from research that applies to other oils from other species. What we do need, is to define the differences in insect repellent efficacy between the two types of plant-based citronella oil (i.e. Java and Ceylon types), and also the synthetic oil marketed as citronella oil. Apologies for the slightly confusing comment which turns-up in article history re. citronellal and citronellol not occurring in Citronella. I was trying to explain the above and it didn't come-up well. Cheers. --user:John Moss August 2007.
[edit] Maha Pangeri
what is that? serching with Google the only references were the clones of Wikipedia.... --192.33.238.6 15:41, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
