Exploring Antimicrobial Potentials of Herbal Skin Cream for Nourishment and Protection

Abstract

Background: Creams are well renowned for their ability to hydrate, nourish, and provide other skin benefits without the use of artificial chemicals. These creams offer a gentle yet effective skincare solution, seeking a more natural and holistic approach to skin care.

Objective: The primary goal of this study was to formulate and evaluate the herbal cream for skin protection, hydration, and nourishment with antifungal, antibacterial, and anti-acne properties, also to address various skin conditions

Methods: The cream was prepared by using the slab technique/extemporaneous method for geometric and homogenous mixing of all the excipients and the herbal extracts. By using slab technique, we have developed four different herbal cream formulations, namely F1, F2, F3 and F4. All these formulations were evaluated for different parameters like appearance, PH, Spreadbility, stability etc and simultaneously examined for in-vitro anti-microbial activity.

Results: The results reveal that, among all four formulations, F1 and F2 formulations showed good appearance, Grittiness and Homogeneity, good Spreadbility, no phase separation. whereas other two formulations F3 and F4 showed no skin irritation, redness and erythema during irritancy study and they were washable easily. Overall, all the four formulations were found to stable at room temperature and F1 and F2 formulations showed significant antimicrobial activity compared to standard.

Conclusion: It has been proven that, Herbal skin nourishing cream F1 and F2 formulations were found most suitable in terms of stability, appearance, excellent hydration to the skin and other properties and showed better antimicrobial activity.