INTRODUCTION:

Now a day’s peoples are conscious about hairs due to increase in pollution hairs get damaged. Pollutants badly affects on hair resulted into spilt ends, roughness, retarded growth of hairs, loss of shine of hair and hair falls. These all problems of hair are covered by shampoo but in case of synthetic shampoos they are made from chemical constituents shows side effects on hairs.

In case of polyherbal shampoos natural ingredients are involved in it, which having natural tendency as a cleanser. They show a good effect on hairs without showing any side effects on hairs. Natural ingredients useful because of their pure qualities^[1,2]

Mostly shampoos are may be in semisolid, liquid, cream or powder form. As India is greatly blessed with biodiversity so, that most Indians use natural ingredients for daily purpose including hair cleaning by removing dirt, scalp and sebum^[3]. For an example, Shekekai is used from ancient time for cleansing of hairs Herbs are used since from since beginning of civilization to maintain health and treat disease. Selection of herbal ingredients is important for maintaining growth and health of hairs.

Selection of herbal ingredients is based on ability of ingredient to remove the dirt and scalp also on nourishing activity of ingredients for health of hairs.^[4,5]

Objectives of this research work,

a) To know significance of polyherbal shampoo

b) To know the concept of polyherbal shampoo

c) To know the ideal properties of polyherbal shampoo

d) To know about evolution of polyherbal shampoo

This research formula contains following ingredient, hibiscus extract and egg white are used as conditioning effect, ritha extract and shekekai is used as foaming and cleansing ability, henna used for giving shine to hairs it act as a colour protective to the hairs, fenugreek extract shows a antibacterial and anti fungal activity on scalp. This polyherbal shampoo gives shine and bounce to hairs without showing any side effect on hairs.^[6,7]

Ideal characteristics of polyherbal shampoo:

a. It should wash hairs effectively

b. It should remove the dust from the hairs

c. It should show good foam ability

d. It should provide good conditioning property with shining

e. It should provide good fragrance to hairs

f. It should be cheep

g. It should not show side effects

The shampoo which shows this characteristic are concluded as ideal shampoo.^[1]

Lowsonia inermis (Henna) is plant of Lythraceae family used in formulation of polyherbal shampoo it cleans the hair and scalp and gives natural shine and luster to hairs. Egg white repairs the hair damage and prevents the excess hair loss. Aloe barbadensis (Aloe Vera) gel provides conditioning effect on hairs and promotes hair growth.^[8]

Fenugreek (Methi)is plant of fabaceae family or Leguminosae it promotes the hair growth and fenugreek seeds kills the bacteria and fungi present on scalp and the hair follicles. Hibiscus rosa-sinesis (Hibiscus) of Malvaceae family in helps to boost hair growth and also gives strength to hair.^[9]

Acacia concinna (Shekekai) is mostly used ingredient in herbal formulation of fabacceae family shekekai is naturalcleanser which helps remove excess oil from hairs and luster the hairs shekekai with Reetha shows a better shampooing property. Sapindus mukorossi (Reetha) is plant of sapnidaceae family it is antibacterial and antifungal inaction and with combination with shekekai shows a shiner and smoothens the hairs. Egg white repairs the hair damage and prevent the excess hair loss. Phyllanthus emblica (Amla) is one of the ingredients used in formulation of shampoo of Phyllantheceae family which is rich in content vitamin C contains high amount of antioxidants which helps to keep follicles strong and fight the damage to hairs^[10]

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

Table1: Formulation Table

Sr. No	Ingredients	Quantity
1	Hibiscus extract	10 ml
2	Heena extract	10ml
3	Shikakai extract	10ml
4	Fenugreek extract	10ml
5	Reetha extract	10ml
6	Amla extract	10ml
7	Egg white	5ml
8	Aloe gel	8.5ml
9	Sodium alginate	5%
10	Sodium lauryl sulpahte	10%
11	Perfume	q.s.
12	Deminerialized water	q.s.to 100ml

MEHTOD:

Procurement of herbs:

All herbs powder was collected from local shops (Islampur) in India.

Extraction and preparation of shampoo:

All the extracts were prepared by soaking of powder material and boiling of powder material then by filtration a pure extract obtained by evaporation process. Extract is stored at room temperature till formulation. according to formula for shampoo all the extract were added one by one with continues agitation with help of mortar and pestle to obtain a homogenous mixture of extract combinationThen finally perfume is added for good and pleasant smell of shampoo. All the mixture is poured in dried bottle.^{[11, 12]}

EVALUTION METHODS OF SHAMPOO^[13,^14,15]:

The prepared shampoo was evaluated for following testes which were done on volunteer from my class

Physical appearance/visual inspection:

The prepared poly herbal shampoo was evaluated in term of their foam producing ability, fluidity and clarity.

Ease of distribution:

The test is performed by applying 5ml of formulation of herbal shampoo over the hair which were previously wetted then time required to complete distribution was measured.

Lathering power:

Lathering power performed of three properties viz. the speed at which shampoo lathered, whether the shampoo produce loose foam or creamy foam and distribution till which the foam was stable.

Ease of combing:

By passing a comb through the wet hair and checking whether the comb glides smoothly combing action was determined.

Removal of oily matter:

By applying 2-5 ml of herbal shampoo and checking the texture to remove excess of oil and removal oil test was performed.

Luster of hair:

By checking the shine on hair after application shampoo on hairs luster of hair test is determined.

Speed of drying:

This test was performed by applying 5ml of the herbal shampoo on the hair and dry after washing. The drying of hair was performed with the help of table fan at constant speed and distance from the subject.

Ease of Rinsing:

Rinsing action of herbal shampoo was performed by applying 5ml of herbal shampoo over the hair and time required to complete removal of frothing from hairs by water is determined

Determination of pH:

The pH of herbal shampoo checked at room temperature by pH paper and pH scale. The ph of polyherbal shampoo is dertmined.

Foaming power:

The foaming power of herbal shampoo is determined by taking a10ml of shampoo in measuring cylinder and then shaking in a mechanical shaker for 1 min. The volume is measured and foaming power of shampoo is calculated.

Ease of Combing (on Dry hairs):

Ease of combing through the dry hair was performed by passing comb through dry hairs and check whether the comb glides smoothly or not.

EVALUTION:

The following parameters were evaluated for the formulation of shampoo. Physical appearance, visual inspection, ease of distribution of oily mater, luster of hair, speed of drying, ease of combing, pH, clarity, consistency, foaming power and result were Reported as follows;

Table 2: Evaluation Table

Sr. No	Test	Standard	Observation
1	Ease of distribution	Easily distributed	Good
2	Removal of oily matter	Removal of oil	Good
3	Luster of hairs	Lustrous hairs	Better
4	Speed of drying	5-10min	7.9min
5	Ease of combing	clear	Good
6	pH	6.5-7.5	7
7	Clarity	Easily combing	Clear
8	Consistency	Uniform	uniform
9	Foaming power	10-15%	13%

RESULT AND DISSCUSSION:

Table 3: Result and Discussion

Sr. No	Test	Standard	Observation
1	Ease of distribution	Easily distributed	Good
2	Removal of oily matter	Removal of oil	Good
3	Luster of hairs	Lustrous hairs	Better
4	Speed of drying	5-10min	7.9min
5	Ease of combing	clear	Good
6	pH	6.5-7.5	7
7	Clarity	Easily combing	Clear
8	Consistency	Uniform	Uniform
9	Foaming power	10-15%	13%

The formulation of polyherbal shampoo shows better conditioning action and hence it is used as conditioning shampoo. Shampoo shows good ease of distribution with good quality of removal of oily matter. It conditioning the hairs with providing natural luster to hairs. The speed of hair drying was found to be 7.9min. The formulation is uniform and clear. The pH of shampoo is neutral in nature i.e. 7. Hence shows no irritation also shows foaming power 13% which is good.

CONCLUSION:

From result it is concluded that the formulation of polyherbal shampoo is as good as marketed product mostly marketed contains chemicals shows side effect on hair as well as scalp but comparative to synthetic shampoos polyherbal shampoo shows conditioning effect with shining hairs. Since this polyherbal shampoo pass the entire test.

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Received on 17.12.2019 Accepted on 19.01.2020

Research J. Topical and Cosmetic Sci. 2020; 11(1):01-04.

DOI: 10.5958/2321-5844.2020.00001.1