Collagen face spray: facial moisturizer from chicken egg shell membrane to prevent premature aging

Abstract

Skin is often exposed to various factors, so the premature aging process become one of the public’s concerns. One of the efforts to maintain skin beauty and prevent premature aging is to fulfil the intake of collagen in the skin. Collagen is a protein, which one is found at chicken egg shells membrane. So far, chicken egg shells are only seen as waste, pollute the environment and are not used properly. Therefore, this innovation to making face spray cosmetic products appears to be a new breakthrough in the utilization and waste treatment. It can function to moisturize and nourish the skin, soothe facial skin, anti-aging, relieves redness on sensitive skin and can give a smooth impression on makeup. The method used in this research is an experiment, the results based on anatomical pathology tests using microscopic 400x magnification with Sirius red staining obtained 52.8% collagen content in egg shell membrane, and pH test obtained value of pH 5.4 which meets the requirements for the safe value for the skin pH 4.5-6.5 and the results of the organoleptic test on collagen face spray product are odorless, colorless, and the material is in the form of a liquid face spray cosmetic.