Abstract

DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HERBAL ANTIDANDRUFF HAIR OIL

Pawan Maurya, Om Prakash Maurya* and Shashikant Maury

Abstract

Pharmacognosy is the branch of pharmacy that deals with herbs. These medicinal plants are utilized for preparing and manufacturing scores of medicines. At the side of this, herbs are used for decoration of body, preparation of cosmetics, flavouring and colouring agent. The main intend of present learning involves preparation and evaluation of herbal hair oil by using fresh parts of a variety of plants. Herbal cosmetics have burgeoning demand and in the world market and are an inestimable gift of nature. There are wide spans of herbal cosmetic products to satisfy beauty regime. The presence of number of phytochemicals and botanicals in the herbal products have dual stuff, one that they are used as cosmetics for body care and another that phytochemicals amend the biological functions of human body naturally results in healthy skin and hairs. Herbal hair oil not only moisturizes scalp but also converse dry scalp and dry hair conditions. It bestows numerous essential nutrients required to maintain normal functions of the sebaceous gland and promote natural hair growth.

Keywords: Hair, Stability studies, herbal cosmetics.