Abstract
The Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak resulted in a surge in prices of soaps, disinfectants, and hand sanitizers. The majority of these products contain chemical surfactants in their formulations that have proved to cause damaging effects such as skin burns and irritations along with allergic reactions. On the contrary, biosurfactants are surface-active amphipathic biomolecules that demonstrate effective health-care and medicinal properties such as low toxicity, biocompatibility, protection of skin, surface moisturizing effects, good anti-microbial ability, high swelling properties and rapid wound healing properties. This review will discuss different biosurfactants that are being used in healthcare industry and will focus on their mechanism of action along with their applications and formulations.
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