Piper Betel has been used as a medicinal herb in Thailand for a long period. Not only consumption but Piper Betal also has been used for religious belief and ritual. However the piper leave should be in the good condition without any defect. As a result there are numerous fall-grade leaves to be get rid of from agriculture. Increasing the value-added of this by- product can increase the income. Extraction of bioactive compounds by using alembic is uncomplicated and green without any solvent is required. Two products come out from this process the first one is an essential oil which is expensive. The second product is hydrosol. The piper hydrosol still contained various phytochemicals. In this study total phenolic content was investigated and was found to be in the range 31.16-73.71 GAE mg/g. Total antioxidant capacity was also studied using the DPPH method. The antioxidant activity was 0. 37▁(+)0.11 mg ascorbic acid equivalent/ ml hydrosol. However the piper hydrosol cannot inhibit P.ance S.aureus and S.epideminis. To sum up the piper hydrosol can be used as an ingredient for antioxidant cosmetics rather than antibacterial skincare.

This research was study the production of essential oil from tobacco leaves for insect repellents. To increase value and development of new products form tobacco leaves. This product is environmental friendly. In this research is divided into two parts: Laboratory scale and get a knowledge to the municipal in Nhongkhai province. Nicotine is an insecticide that effect to insects. This product evaporated pass through natural packaging. A natural packaging can be easily degradation in the environment. Moreover this product also helped to reduce the hazardous chemicals or pesticides usage and not residues for long time.

The purposes of this research were to investigate the factors consisted of a temperature different parts of the lemongrass and a size of chopped lemongrass that affected to distillation of lemongrass essential oils. There are two experiments in this work. The first experiment investigated the factors by defining 1) temperature at 105 oC and 110 oC 2) different parts of the lemongrass (Leaves and trunk) and 3) sizes of chopped lemongrass at 1-2 cm and 15-20 cm respectively. 2k Factorial designs method was used for this experiment. In the second experiment the appropriate parameters from experiment 1 were used for 3 replicates to find an average of lemongrass essential oils. The results of first experimental analysis showed that the appropriate parameters were temperature parts of the lemongrass and sizes of chopped lemongrass at 110 oC leaves and 1-2 cm respectively. For the result of experiment 2 it was found that the average of lemongrass essential oils was 30.36 ml.