In garlic with lime mouth rinse, a herbal formulation, lime was added to mask the pungent flavor of garlic and it also provided antifungal effect.[8] The characteristic flavor of allicin in garlic induces salivation and salivary clearance, thus providing an additional benefit on caries prevention.[3,16] This mouth rinse was found to be the second most significantly effective antibacterial mouth rinse and the most effective antifungal mouth rinse, when compared to the studied mouth rinses. The in vitro antibacterial and antifungal activities of garlic extract have been widely recognized.[8,9,10,18] Our finding indicates that this mouth rinse can be a very cost-effective formulation which can be easily formulated at home and may lack possible side effects with long