Various studies have compared the natural against the gold standard mouth rinses and reported varying degrees of efficacy, especially against S. mutans,[2,3,4,12,13] but there is a paucity of reports comparing the various natural mouth rinses. Also, to our knowledge, there are no reports of studies comparing the antimicrobial efficacy against C. albicans, a fungus being implicated in the etiopathogenesis of dental caries.