Published March 31, 2017 | Version v1
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FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF LIPSTICK USING NATURAL COLORANTS

  • 1. University of Mumbai, Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Pharmacy,C.B.D. Belapur, Sector 8,Navi Mumbai- 400614, India.

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Cosmetics have become one of the daily necessities of all groups in society every year ,users were introduced to various new cosmetic products of the latest trend .lipstick is one of the beauty product that commands a unique market .the quality of lipstick is directly link to basic material use in the formulation. Natural ingredients based products are getting popular, as a public concerned toward long term effect of synthetic material in cosmetic formulation increased. In this work, natural colorants based lipsticks were produced. This formulation consists of oil mixtures, wax mixtures, bromo mixtures, colours, and other additives. It was prepared with beet root powder and natural food colour which gives pink colour as well as combination of cocoa powder, coffee and cinnamon gives chocolate brown colour. The lipstick were use previously contains organic colours which contain may harmful agents like lead, manganese, cadmium, etc. which are carcinogenic in nature and may leads to many side effects . By comparing both the combination one of the combination is better than other on the basis of appearance, colour, softening point and spreadability.

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