Formation of hygiene and cosmetic wipes using herbal formulation

Usha sayed; Swati Korgaonkar

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Increase in the awareness among the consumers against the health and hygiene products has increase the demand of nonwovens. There is huge increase in hygiene products in the recent COVID-19 pandemics. The hygiene products help the control the moisture as well as acts as a good disinfectant against the pathogens present on the skin. In the present study wet wipes formulations are being done using herbal formulations. Xanthum gum is used as a biopolymer which acts as a superwetting agent in the preparation of wipes formulation. The herbal formulation produced is applied on nonwoven P/V (100 gsm) and viscose (45 gsm). The % absorbency and % release property of both the formulation produced has been analysed on both the nonwovens. It shows a good surface disinfectant property for SF1 formulation. The invitro cytotoxicity results shows nontoxic results and are safer for human skin applications.

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