1Department of Pharmaceutics, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Ooty, Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, India.
2School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Punjab.
Facial Skin is elegant and the ordinary soaps make it to lose texture and make it dry. Facewash is a mild cleanser acts without producing any harshness to skin. The purpose of facewash is to proclaim the cleansing, antiwrinkle, anti-acne, moisturizing and enhance the fairness of skin and thus skin look young and energetic The present form of facewashes available in market were gel and cream state, which should be packed in large collapsible tube or plastic containers in turn difficult for the consumer to carry during their travel and being this facewash are aqueous in nature, it needs preservative to maintain the stability. The objectives of this present work is to overcome the drawbacks of synthetic facewashes and to prepare herbal facewash tablet. Facewash tablets are formulated to minimize the cost, packaging size and the utilization of harmful preservatives and easily portable. Facewash tablet was prepared with various concentration of ingredients and evaluated for parameters like pH, Irritability, Hardness, Friability, Thickness, Foaming capacity and Accelerated Stability. The present study revealed that the formulated batch (F6) produces an excellent foams and produce a fine facewash.
Facewash, Herbal facewash tablet, Foaming capacity, Stability, Preservatives
