Mosquito is a Spanish and Portguese word which means “little fly”. It commonly have more than 3600 species. mosquito bites of different species can cause different diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya etc. which can cause increased mortality and morbidity rate day by day that’s why mosquitoes repellent are used by world wide in different formulations such as creams, ointments, patches, coils, incense stick etc.

These formulations provide better effect to repel the mosquitoes to prevent various health diseases such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya etc. This abstract is used to provide the information about the various formulations of mosquito repellents which includes the formulations of incense stick, mosquito repellent cream and a mosquito repellent candle. Various other formulations are also available in the market for the protection from mosquito bites. But this article consist only those formulations which are derived from natural substances, As the natural formulations provide a great advantage over the synthetic formulations such as they reduce health defects that caused from the synthetic mosquito repellents, they cause less harm to nature, are safer for human health’s, these are also biodegradable and environmental friendly. The main advantage of these formulations is that they cause lower impact on ecosystem by not releasing toxins. In India before the discovery of any synthetic mosquito repellent people were used to burn the coal tars for create smoke, burn bitter plant leaves such as neem and papaya leaves and use essential oils like citronella, eucalyptus and lemon grass oil to repel the mosquitoes. These remedies also used in worldwide for the same purpose. This article is meant for providing details of the formulations that are comprises of these ingredients that used before the discovery of any synthetic mosquito repellent, we used these ingredients as per the information given in our “Vedas and Puranas”. This is a great way to protect our traditional knowledge and makes the use of this knowledge beneficial for human use. These formulations act by various mechanisms such as Masking host odors, repelling host odors and by contact repellency which is a special mechanism in this the repellents deter the sensory receptors on their legs or mouthparts causing them to retreat.