Formulation and evaluation of herbal hand wash using neem and aloevera extract

Abstract

The herbal cosmetics are natural and free from all the harmful synthetic chemicals which generally may turn out to be lethal to the skin, the natural ingredient used assures no side effect one can applied them any time. So, herbal cosmetic are more referable as compared to synthetics one.The purpose of the present work is to formulate and evaluated herbal hand wash using natural ingredients to promote the personal hygiene. The formulated hand wash was evaluated for different parameters like pH, colors, foaming efficiency, viscosity and stability. The herbal hand wash formulated using neem extract for antibacterial property, aloevera juice for soothing property, glycerine for moisturization, sodium lauryl sulphate as a surfactant, carbopol 934 as a jellying agent, rose oil for fragrance and distilled water, the hand wash is prepared and evaluated then the result was documented. 5 People were asked for acceptability of fragrance and their opinion was taken. The fragrance was found to be good as compared to reference hand wash.: The hand wash was found to be light green aromatic and homogeneous with rosy fragrance. pH was 6.0 which is similar to the skin pH. The hand wash was found to be stable in all evaluation parameters with good cleaning property.