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Herbal Formulation for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advances in bioengineering and biomedical science research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2640-4133
DOI - 10.33140/abbsr.02.04.07
Subject(s) - acne , dermatology , medicine , traditional medicine , food science , biology
The main objective of the present article is to avoid the adverse effect of the existing synthetic acne cream by formulating anherbal acne cream for treatment of acne vulgaris. Acne vulgaris is a long term skin disease that occurs when hair follicles wereblocked with dead skin cell and oil from the skin. Acne vulgaris is the most common bacteria causing chronic inflammatory skindisorder. Propioni bacterium and staphylococcus aureus are common pus forming microbes responsible for acne vulgaris. Variousherbs used for the treatment of acne vulgaris such as wheat germ oil used as anti-oxidant and it is a great sources of vitamin-e,haldi helps to reduce the inflammation of acne and it act as anti-inflammatory agent, neem helps in clearing acne, scars andpigmentation, raspberry used as anti-oxidant and it is a source of vitamin c, kesar act as anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal and antioxidant. Natural herbal extracts in combination effectively utilized for the treatment of acne. Use of such products far better thanthe use of synthetic cream for the control of acne. Wheat germ oil which is extracted from kernel of wheat grains, haldi is extractedfrom rhizome; neem is extracted from leaf, raspberry (seed), kesar extracted from the stigmas of the flower part.