Preparation and characterization of herbal shampoo from goat milk and natural extract

Abstract

Shampoo is one of the cosmetic type product using surfactants as the main compound which when used under the specified conditions will remove surface grease, dirt, and skin debris from the hairs without adversely affecting the user. Currently shampoo is not only used to cleanse dirt on the hair and scalp but also to hair growth and prevent hair loss. To achieve this goal, the shampoo industries used a variety of additives chemicals that can potentially risk for user. In this study, we tried to make two types of herbal shampoo using natural leafs extract. The formula of shampoo 1, consist of goat milk, celery leaf extract, banana knot extract, and pegagan leaf extract while shampoo 2 using goat milk, noni extract, mangkokan leaf extract and spinach extract. Both of that shampoo preparations were analyzed the physical appearance and physicochemical. The results showed that the physical performance both herbal shampoo were light brown in color, transparent and good odor while the physicochemical characteristics of herbal shampoo formula 1 comprise pH, solid content, surface tension and foam ability were 5.25; 29.17%; 51.17 dyne/cm and 9.50 mL, while herbal shampoo formula 2 has a pH of 5.5; solid content of 29.67%; surface tension of 44.63 dyne/cm and foam ability of 15.0 mL. Formulated herbal shampoo shows physicochemical properties comparable to the commercial shampoo.