The growth of the cosmetic industry in the west was the result of meticulous study of the age-old cosmetic preparations by cosmetic chemists. There is elaborate literature on the scores of chemical ingredients used and their physicochemical properties, and cosmetics were classified according to their effect or purpose or alternatively according to their physical/chemical composition.…
According to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) the projected market size of the cosmetics industry is currently estimated at Rs.10,000 crores. It is expected to double to Rs.20,000 crores by 2014. In India, the economic boom of the 1990s and victorious emergence of Indian women in international beauty pageantry events…
The 21st century saw the development of large cosmetic companies and the value of the industry is growing to billions of dollars. The manufacture of cosmetics is currently dominated by a small number of multinational corporations that originated in the early 20th century, but the distribution and sale of cosmetics is spread among a wide…
The word cosmetic is derived from Greek meaning ‘beautify and arrange’ referring both to its cleansing and beautifying property. Cosmetics are defined as preparations designed to beautify the body by direct application. They are intended to be applied to the human body for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness or altering the appearance without affecting the body’s…
The present market for herbal products is growing exponentially and there is a huge demand for standardized, approved products of established safety and efficacy. This huge demand, dwindling plant resource wealth, reckless exploitation of natural plant wealth despite strict curtailing regulations in place, and the lack of precise regulatory control over the available vast range…
The drug contains not less than 1.3% bitter principles constituted of amarogentin (0.04%) and amaroswerin (0.03%). Other important constituents are xanthone derivatives—more than 20 in number such as chiratol, methyl beliidifolin, decissatin, 7-O-methyl swertianin, mangiferin, swertianin, swertinine, chiratinine, triterpenoids—masilinic acd and its trisaccharide ester swercinctoside, chiratenol, gammacer-16-en-3β-ol, 21-α-H-hep-22(29)-en-3β-ol, swertenol, episwertenol, pichierenol, kairatenol, oleanolic acid, gammacer-16-en-β-ol,…
Chirata is an erect annual herb of 80–110 cm long with a stout robust stem, which is rounded in the lower part and branching toward the top. It is about 6 mm thick, yellowish brown, glabrous and slightly winged. Leaves are 7–9 cm long, 3.5–4 cm wide, sessile, elliptic, acute, and seven veined flowers; tetramerous…
The plant has been used in Chinese traditional medicine, where for centuries it has been used in the treatment of malaria, fevers, skin diseases, jaundice, and haemorrhoids in combination with other herbs. As an herbal tea and infusion, the herb is an affordable and effective anti-malarial in the tropics and countries such as China and…
Artemisia is an aromatic plant found as a pervasive weed in China. It is thus found both in wild and is also cultivated. It is a single-stemmed, hairless, sweetly aromatic annual growing to a height of 1 m. The stem is erect, ribbed, brownish, or violet brown in colour with very slender and glabrous branches.…
Traditional—Dhanwantartaila, mahanarayana taila, devadarvadyarista Proprietary—Sundown valerian capsules, valerian root tea, valerian root tincture Artemisia Refers to Artemisia annua Linn., Family: Compositae, Synonym Artemisia chamomila It is native to Eurasia from south-east Europe to Vietnam and India. It has become naturalized in many countries—Argentina, Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.…