Formulation And Evaluation of Antifungal Herbal Cream from Pongamia pinnata (Karanja)

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 an active ingredient 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 man-made 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 is no 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 treating fungal 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. The main objective of this study to formulate safe and effective cream this does not cause side effect and to study efficacy and safety of prepared antifungal cream.