Research Article

Combination of Chemically-Characterized Essential Oils from Eucalyptus polybractea, Ormenis mixta, and Lavandula burnatii: Optimization of a New Complete Antibacterial Formulation Using Simplex-Centroid Mixture Design

Table 3

Various combinations generated by the chosen mixture design and response data for each trial.

Number of experimentsaEPEOOMEOLBEOMIC % (v/v)b
E. coliS. aureus

110020.25
201060.5
300110.25
40.50.5020.25
50.500.520.25
600.50.520.25
70.3330.3330.3330.50.125
80.3330.3330.3330.50.125
90.3330.3330.3330.50.125
100.6670.1670.16710.125
110.1670.6670.16720.25
120.1670.1670.6670.50.125

aExperiments were carried out after randomization. bEach response is the average of three replicates.