Two high school students from Indonesia have created an air freshener from cow dung.
Orange News reported that students Dwi Nailul Izzah and Rintya Aprianti Miki made the environmentally-friendly fragrance from fresh cow manure.
It is said to have a “natural fragrance” of herbs and is “good for human health” because it does not contain any harmful chemicals found in other aerosol products in the market.
To create the freshener, the girls collected fresh dung from a cattle farm and left it to ferment over three days.
Next, they extracted the water from the dung and mixed it with coconut water—after which, the mixture was distilled to remove impurities.
The end product was an air freshener with a “natural aroma of herbs from digested cow food”.
Meanwhile, Dwi Nailul Izzah claimed his scientific work was explained about waste droppings (feces) into liquid cow pengharuman room with natural fragrance of herbs. "Fragrances room that we produce pure natural smelling like cow feed plant, not supplemented with chemicals in order to smell fragrant," he said.
In his work, the two students were also made economic studies regarding market air freshener products are. "This room fragrances healthy because it contains no harmful chemicals, such as" benzo acetan "products like fragrances on the market, and also economical because the cost of production is very low, at $ 21 thousand to 225 milliliters packaging," he said.
Meanwhile, for air freshener products on the market price of Rp 39,900 for a 275 gram pack.Therefore, it will be filed for a patent on the work, as appropriate the work of two students at the site Director of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has been no similar product patents.
While Regent Lamongan Fadeli expect scientific papers both students are not lost in the earth. In the future there should be implementation efforts by collaborating third parties for marketing."The opportunities in the international arena they also open enough to see the results are pretty good, and so potentially could win on the international stage.
Meanwhile, Dwi Nailul Izzah was born student shoots, Lamongan, December 14, 1996, and is the second child of two brothers pair Haris A Salim and Zayyaroh. While Rintya Aprianti Miki was born in Edinburgh on 17 April 1996 which is the first daughter of three brothers pair Maliki and Juwami.
ccording to the Head of Public Relations Mohammed Zamroni Lamongan regency, two students representing Indonesia after conducting scientific research titled "Livestock Cow Waste" as environmentally friendly air freshener. The scientific work was defeated 1,000 participants in the event "Indonesian Science Project Olympiad" (ISPO) held in Jakarta on 26-28 February 2013. "Success is to bring them into the representative of Indonesia in the international arena which will take place in Turkey.
Why not just have the herbs only?
Originally posted by charlize:Why not just have the herbs only?
.....the "herbs" referring to here is the smell. So you can't have the herbs without the smell.
why not flowers?
oh we can see an empidemic of forced flower feeding.
Originally posted by Mr Milo:it’s lucky enough it’s not made from horse shit
I thought horse shit smell better than cow dung?
Lucky for everyone they didn't use elephant dung...
Originally posted by Summer hill:why not flowers?
oh we can see an empidemic of forced flower feeding.
.....the air freshener will smell like shit if the cows are fed with flower, it's a reverse biological kind of thing.