INTRODUCTION:

Cosmetics are the products used extensively worldwide for maintaining and improving general appearance.⁸Cosmetics alone are not responsible for keeping up the appealing look for our skin as it has lot of chemicals and toxins it can harm the skin. ⁴Thus, it requires association of some natural ingredients to give it a fresh healthy and long lasting effect.³Fruits are filled with natural vitamins and nutrients thus the culmination of some fruits into a face preparation is something amazing in this because Generally, we find single fruits with some chemicals in addition but this has been an experimental idea to include some fruits for generation of an Bio-transformed Fruit Face Pack. The use of fruits in the face pack gives advantages such as: 1)Provides Nutrients essential for healthy skin 2)Provides nourishment to the applied area 3)Gives in sustained effect for skin.⁷Necessary efforts are required to associate cosmetics and fruits leading to novel cosmetic for skin especially for face.⁹

Cosmetics are substances used to enhance the appearance or odour of the human body. They are generally mixtures of chemical compounds while some being derived from natural sources, many being synthetic.²Skin care products can also fall under the general category of cosmetics. These are products used to improve the appearance and health of skin, formulated for different types of skin and associated characteristics.³Many types of skin care products are used by generation today which injects lot more of chemicals into the skin by which more of chemicals are sediment on the skin surface.⁵ Some of the common cosmetics used on skin are Face Powders, Compacts, Cleansers, Creams, Sunscreens, Face packs, Face masks etc.⁷But we hardly get to find a fully herbal cosmetic face pack where in the whole natural extract has been used for the formulation especially in case of Fruits⁸ . In this experimental project author aimed to formulate a face pack which is fully chemical free where in the whole lot of natural fruit extracts have been bio-transformed each individual fruits rich of vitamins and minerals have been sun dried and is extracted for their natural effect. It basically maintains the skin free from drying out of sebum and natural oils and to maintain the pH and oiliness on the skin surface. This is has been formulated from Papaya Seeds, Orange Peels, Banana Peels et.al. The Natural vitamins and minerals in it improves the longeitivity of the Face Pack and also the Nutritive Value with the various uses to the skin as of anti-acne,anti-wrinkle,sun-screen.The biotransformation of the fruits is quite interesting part of this formulation as every fruit included has been nurtured and extracted with specific measures and then dried to obtain the full nutritive values in it.

EXPERIMENTAL:

INSTRUMENTS:

Density Bottle, pH Paper, Glass Beakers, Glass Stirrer, Funnel, Sieve No:44,Glass slab, Test tube, Mortar Pestle, Analytical Weighing balance.

MATERIALS:

Fullers Earth: Dagdu Teli, Nashik, India

Green tea Extract: Ripple Green Tea, Kannan Devan Hills, Munnar, Kerala

Turmeric: Dagdu Teli, Nashik, India

Orange Peels: Transformed from commercially available Oranges

Amla Powder : Dagdu Teli, Nashik, India

Tomato Powder: Dagdu Teli, Nashik, India

PROCEDURE

1) Take the dry extracted powder of each fruit in the required quantity, this needs to be calculated with respect to the 100gms of the Master formula mentioned above.

2)Triturate all the powder to their minimum size particle.

3)Mix all these powders in their appropriate quantity with no loss of the active ingredient.

4) Further Sieve all these powder with the help of sieve no-44 so that the powder attains the maximum smallest size .

5) Blend these powders once more for their Particle Uniformity and good powder flow properties.

6) Further these are subjected for their evaluation for greater Stability and Sustainability.

7) Evaluations are to be conducted before and after the preparation of formulation.

FORMULATION STUDY:

The Preparation of various formulations were attempted with varied measures of the ingredients involved. It was all done on a Trial and Error Basis which is explained in a tabular format below. All the mentioned 5 formulations were formulated and evaluated but they brought on some or the other effects or additional effect which may hamper the stability of the product .Hence, One stable formulation was selected.

OBSERVATION TABLE

Ingredients	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5
Fullers earth	5g	5g	2.5g	5g	10g
GreenTeaExtract	5g	5g	2.5g	5g	-
Turmeric Powder	20g	15g	20g	15g	20g
Orange Peel Powder	20g	15g	15g	25g	20g
Amla Powder	20g	30g	20g	25g	15g
Tomato Powder	30g	30g	40g	25g	35g

Above are the various formulations which had been tried and formulated but, due to some limitations and side effects all other formulation except F4 had been eliminated from the formulation study. Thus, the Most desirable formulation is F4 with the below given Formulation it has been formulated.

Master Formula:

Rx,

Fullers Earth - 5gms

Green Tea Extract - 5gms

Turmeric Powder - 15gms

Orange Peel Powder - 25gms

Amla Powder - 25gm s

Tomato Powder - 25gms

(Quantity sufficient to 100 gms)

Fig1: (the above fig shows the major four ingredients that of Turmeric powder, Orange Peel powder, Tomato powder and Amla powder respectively)

RESULT AND DISCUSSION:

Evaluation has always been an active part of every formulation study because it determines the sustainablity and stability of the formulation study. This being a new innovative type of herbal face pack it had to overcome many of the parameters which could harness the actual expected effect. Following Parameters were evaluated and studied^.4

1) ORGANOLEPTIC PROPERTIES

These are generally done to get a preliminary analysis of the product or specifically the face pack with its colour, odour, taste, ph involved among its characteristics .these are also done so that forbidence of unpleasant odour or taste or ph can be masked⁹

Colour: Ochre colour

Odour: Characteristic

Ph : 7 (neutral)

2) PATCH TEST

Patch testing is a process used to detect whether someone has allergic contact dermatitis to some of the Ingredients which are involved During patch testing, small amounts of face pack is mixed with a solvent especially water and placed onto the wrist of the hand⁹

RESULT:

No allergy or irritation observed on that Patch of wrist where it was tested.

3) PRIMARY IRRITATION:

The Primary Iritation Testing is done on the subjects hands so that the tester or the Evaluator comes to know whether the subject is confined to any sort of irritation towards any of the ingredient involved in the formulation¹

RESULT:

There wasn’t any Primary Irriation found on the subjects hands.

4) ALLERGY :

RESULT:

After the application of the face pack on to the test area there wasn’t any allergy or redness observed.

5) HYPERSENSITIVITY:

There wasn’t any redness found or observed on the skin patch area where the face pack was diluted and applied. Thus this gives evidence that none of the four Hypersensitive reactions are to be observed

RESULT: No Hypersensitive Reactions were noted at the test area.

6) ACCELERATED STABILITY STUDIES:

According to the ICH guidelines the Powder Face Pack was subjected to 40 °C at 75%RH For 3months.

The IPQC techniques as well as the FDA regulations were kept in concern while performing the stability testing ⁹

CONCLUSION:

In my study it was noted that the fruit face pack seemed to be very effective in its results which showed a glowing skin within some weeks of application with a frequency of once in a day. It showed all the properties of Anti-oxidant, Acne remover, replenisher as well as glowing skin. There showed no signs of contamination or fungus growth after storing it at room temperature for a period of 3months.thus,it proves to be a healthy product with no side-effects on the skin.

FUTURE SCOPE:

This was an attempt to formulate a chemical free face pack which will reduce the side effects on face and even improve the face glow. I aim to formulate even more better face packs and creams in the future period of time during my Post-Graduation Studies would more focus on the stability aspects of the product as well as to reduce the side effects by nearly 100%.This was completely a Fruit based pack which is filled with lot of nutrients and vitamins it will only help in stimulation of the face glow so will be trying to make it a cream based formulation so that it can be very easy to apply without any chances of contamination.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

Author would like to express their gratitude to guide, parents and friends whose undue support made this project successful.

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Received on 09.04.2015 Accepted on 10.05.2015

Research J. Topical and Cosmetic Sci. 6(1):Jan.–June 2015page 44-47

DOI: 10.5958/2321-5844.2015.00007.2