World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF HERBAL BASED NAIL POLISHES FROM CLITORIA TERNATEA AND BETA VULGARIS EXTRACTS

Megha Patel*, Kiran Suthar, Vishal Chudasama, Bharat Rajpurohit

ABSTRACT

The flora of India is one of the richest in the world, estimated to be over 50,000 species of plants in India. Plants has been an integral part of life in India. as source of food and nutrition, medicine, shelter, wood, oil, paper manufacturing, fuel, adhesive, etc from the earliest times. Beyond physical health, cosmetics can help to improve our mood, enhance our appearance and boost our self-esteem. Nail polishes (also called lacquers or enamels), base coats, top coats, nail hardeners, and nail treatments are coatings applied to the nail plate to provide a pleasing look and to address specific nail plate conditions, such as soft, peeling or brittle nails. The current study was to formulate and evaluate nail polish with herbal ingredient in place of colour pigment to reduce long-time side effect. Two plant parts beetroot and aparajita flowers has intense bright colour. Beet root is a rich source of a group of red pigments known as betalains, Aparajita flowers contain anthocyanins which imparts the blue colour. The colour pigments from the beetroot and aparajita flowers were extracted by suitable method and concentrated. Nail polish were formulated using basic ingredient and natural colour pigments extracted. The formulated nail polishes were evaluated for various parameters such as colour, consistency, grittiness, spreadibility, smoothness of flow, drying time, hardness and water resistance. Formulated nail polishes were looks light blue and red in colour with good texture. Formulated nail polishes have sufficient hardness and excellent spreadibility. Drying time was observed to be 72 seconds for F1 and 74 seconds for F2 formulations. Evaluation tests were found to in normal range according to I.P. Novel formulations can used as alternatives as chemical-based nail polished which is free from harmful chemicals and side effects related to it.

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