Abstract

PHYTOCHEMICAL AND ANTIBACTERIAL EVALUATION OF FORMULATED HAND SANITIZER FROM DIFFERENT NATURAL SOURCES AND WASTE MATERIALS

Muneeb Shaahid Nerekar, Nidhi Pralhad Govindwar, and Annika Durve Gupta*

ABSTRACT

Nowadays simple hygiene practices to preserve an individual’s health is important. Cleaning of our hands leading to infections and sickness using soap, water and hand sanitizer prevents germs from leading infection and sickness. The market available sanitizers are chemical based which may be harmful. In this work, we have formulated a hand sanitizer using plant sources and fruit waste materials (peels and seeds) with least usage of chemicals. Separate extracts were prepared, and the phytochemical analysis was performed. These extracts were tested for their efficacy against different micro-organisms. All the extracts were mixed to make a sanitizer which was tested for its antibacterial efficacy. It was evaluated against hand flora to observe the reduction in the number of bacteria before and after the use of sanitizer. Comparison between the market available herbal sanitizer and our sanitizer was performed. Our sanitizer was found to be efficient as visible reduction in the number of bacterial colonies was observed.

Keywords: Hygiene, Fruit waste, Hand sanitizer, Phytochemical and Antibacterial analysis.