European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

“FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF HERBAL ANTI-ACNE FACE WASH”

Jhansi Rani M.*, Akhil S., Triveni T., Revathi P.4, Lakshmi Prasanna J. and Dr. A. M. S. Sudhakar Babu

ABSTRACT

Acne is an inflammatory disease of sebaceous follicles of skin. Natural remedies are more acceptable in the belief that they are safer with fewer side effects than the synthetic ones. Herbal formulations have growing demand in the market. The present work deals with the development and evaluation of the herbal anti-acne face wash containing aqueous extracts of roots of burdock, liquorice, shahi jeera, orange peel and fruit of nut meg. Although various topical herbal formulations available in the market, we propose to make pure herbal formulation without any synthetic ingredient. The plants have been reported in literature having good anti-microbial, anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Various formulation batches i.e., F1 to F5 were prepared using Xanthan gum in varied concentrations. Prepared formulations were evaluated for various physical parameters like colour, appearance, washability, pH, Spreadability and anti-microbial activity. Optimised batch of formulation compared with marketed formulation. Amongst all the formulation studies F2 was found optimum for all the parameters.

Keywords: Acne vulgaris, Burdock root, Anti-microbial activity.