Formulation & Evaluation of antioxidant Herbal moisturizing cream as an alternative remedy for Skin diseases

Abstract

Since the skin acts as the defender of the body, it is important to keep it healthy to protect the body. The water content of the stratum corneum and the lipids on the skin's surface work in harmony to maintain skin function. Use of synthetic ingredients compromise the skin's protective barrier, leading to dryness, roughness, scaling, cracking, itching and other conditions. The research aims to formulate a brand new herbal cream with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that moisturizes skin, this reduces oxidative stress and nourishes skin and prevent from severe drying of skin which is the main reason for various skin diseases. As many herbs have potency to moisturize skin, various herbal extracts like macadamia oil, jojoba oil, Moringa oil, Tamanu oil, Avacado body butter and tocopherol were used to formulate the herbal cream. With all these new key ingredients, a herbal moisturizing cream was formulated b varying the concentrations of herbal extracts and evaluated. The developed formulation possesses a characteristic odour and white in color. pH lies between 6-6.5 which is suitable to skin pH. The formulation showed thermal stability. The antioxidant and anti-inflammatory components of the herbal cream formulation help reduce oxidative stress and inflammation. In addition, it contains a lot of vitamin E, which moisturizes and nourishes the skin, preventing excessive drying of the skin.