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Saraf, Saraf and Srivastava (2013). Ethosomesas Smart Herbal Formulation for Wrinkles. Journal of Ravishankar University (Part-B: Science), 24(1), pp. 09-18.
Journal of Ravishankar University-B 24(1), pp.9-18(2013)
Ethosomesas Smart Herbal
Formulation for Wrinkles
Swarnlata Saraf, Shailendra Saraf and Shikha Srivastava
Institute of
Pharmacy, Pt.
Ravishankar Shukla
University, Raipur· 492010, Chhattisgargh, India
Abstract: In today's era cosmetic
industry is deeply concerned with introduction of novel systems, and herbal as multifunctional active ingredient in the formulations to cope smartly
with consumer's demand.
The latter includes effective and safe treatment
within a short period of time and to prevent
chronic effects of dermal disorders.
As a result synergistic effect
could be gained
by introduction of multifunctional ingredient as herbal
actives into 'novel delivery system·(= ethosomes) to treat
dermal problems faced
by today's major world
population that is appearance of wrinkles before age with additional benefits
by introduction of multifunctional herbal actives. These multifunctional herbal
agent enriched with herbal actives
in Ethosomes can lead to smarter
effects because of advantageous nature of ethosomes to fulfill objective of topical delivery system that
is
enhanced delivery of active agents at deeper
level of skin, packed less tightly than conventional vesicles
but has equivalent stability, allowing a more malleable structure and improves drug distribution in stratum corneum lipids, phospholipids present in ethosomes rejuvenate cell membrane.
This paper focuses
on smart ethosome vesicular system even protects
actives from adverse
environmental effect and enhances stability
of formulation.
Multifunctional herbal extract as
active constituent
incorporated into it to treat major problems at safer level with negligible side effects. This smart formulation is easy to scale up at industrial level and thus adds significant economy to cosmetic industries
also.
Keywords: Cosmetic,
ethosomes, multifunctional, herbal, smart
Corresponding Author: swarnlata_saraf@rediffmail.com
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