D-Limonene
D-Limonene is the technical name for orange oil extract. This is the product used in most of the commercial citrus products for cleaning and/or pest control.
One of the most interesting specific products that I talk about that has a considerable amount of research is orange oil. D-limonene orange oil can be used in gardening and pest control in several ways.
One of the fire ant products that is currently on the market and has EPA registration for fire ant control is Orange Guard’s Fire Ant Control. (Safer used to make an orange oil ant control called Citrex, but now their ant product uses cloves) so you may have heard me talk about it in the past. It is an orange oil or d-limonene product that has very detailed research both from Texas A&M in the field and the University of Texas at Austin in the lab. It works very well. Orange Guard is registered for the control of many household insect pests. There are many uses for orange oil and its extract called d-limonene. Just a few of the products include air fresheners, cleaners and soil detox products. Why use toxic chemicals when non-toxic food products work just as well.
Chemical formula of D-Limonene