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Dandruff be situated very common scalp disorder by means of high prevalence in population that generally caused via Malassezia furfur. Most of the regularly available shampoos encompass some form of antifungal agent every so often remains chemical origin that have negative or else adverse impact that may don�t gave satisfactory antifungal activity. Therefore, investigators find out a cost-effective natural product to overcome this problem. Our research based on use of natural products, is not only cost effective but also negligible side effects. In this study various animal and plant based extract such as cow urine, Azardiractha indica (Neem), Rice and Citrus limon (Lemon) were selected then assessed for antifungal activity against human dandruff causative agent (pathogen). Agent responsible for dandruff was isolated form different infected persons and characterized via morphological as well as cultural characters and identified that it may be Malassezia furfur fungi. The antifungal effect of extracts was assessed by measuring growth inhibition of test pathogen using three different technique pour plate, spread plate technique and disk diffusion method. Among them disk diffusion method gives promising result by using neem extract moreover, all remaining three extracts were showing less antifungal activity compared to neem extract.