Formulation And Evaluation of Herbal Shampoo

The most typical hair treatment is cleaning. Shampoos are products that are generally used to clean the hair and scalp. Shampooing is an art by which sebum or grease produced by sebaceous glands are rinsed off from hairs making them dirt/oil free. The main goal of this study was to replace risky ingredients in shampoo formulations with a secure natural product. The study's objectives included developing a pure herbal shampoo and assessing and contrasting its physicochemical properties with those of commercially available synthetic and herbal shampoos. The herbal shampoo was formulated by adding the extracts of amla, bhringraj, curry leaves, reetha and shikakai in different proportions to water. A small amount of methylparaben was added as a preservative and pH was adjusted with citric acid. Several tests such as visual inspection, pH, wetting time, % of solid contents, foam volume and stability, surface tension, detergency, dirt dispersion, etc, were performed to determine the physicochemical properties of both prepared and marketed shampoos. The results clearly indicate that the formulated shampoo is having a satisfactory conditioning performance level. All the ingredients used to formulate shampoo are safer and the physicochemical evaluation showed ideal results, but further research is required to improve its quality and identify the constituents that are responsible for the performance.