Abstract

FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF ANTIFUNGAL HERBAL CREAM FROM PONGAMIA PINNATA (KARANJA)

Chaitanya Sambhaji Bhosale*, Sneha Bhimrao Bhagwat, Vaibhavi Vijay Gaikwad, Nikhil Bapurav Gawade and Akash Popat Hange

ABSTRACT

The concept of „Herbal medicine‟ has its origins in ancient societies. In these medicines we use that are plants or its parts to cure disease and improve health and wellbeing. Some herbs have active ingredients which shows the particular therapeutic value and should be taken with some caution as pharmaceutical medications. In fact, most of the pharmaceutical medicines are based on manmade versions of naturally occurring substances found in nature. Most of the people believe that products which are labelled as "natural" are always safe. This isn't inescapably true. There are not need to do testing of herbal medicines as pharmaceutical medicines have to do. The aim of this research was to formulate herbal cream for nourishing, moisturizing and treatingfungal infection. Karanja oil was taken for this preparation of antifungal herbal cream. The stability testing of cream showed that the product found to be stable and there were no evidence of phase separation and no colour variation. The patch test has been done and there are no skin irritation, inflation and allergic reaction. Hence this herbal cosmetic preparation is safe to use for skin was proved. Pongamia pinnata (L.) Pierre (Pongamia) is a tree native to Southeast Asia. However, Pongamia has multiple applications beyond biofuel production. Additionally, Pongamia oil has medicinal properties, can be used as biopesticide, insect repellent, to produce soap, and as a source of edible grade vegetable oil. The seed cake can be used as a source of bioenergy, food and feed protein, and organic fertiliser, and the flowers are a good source of pollen and nectar.

Keywords: Pongamia, Biofuel, Agroforestry, Climate change.[15]