Abstract

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF NATURAL HAIR COLOUR RECONSTITUTED GEL CONTAINING PLANT BASED POLYPHENOLIC COMPOUNDS

Rachana Punjabi*, Payal Sharma, Ruqqaia Khan, Saniya Shaikh and Prajakta Patil

ABSTRACT

Hair is one of the most important aspects of human personality. Among the various hair related problems, greying of hair is the major issue faced by not only the older, but also the younger generation. Hair coloring thus is gradually becoming a necessity and a regular practice. But synthetic or plant based hair colors available in the market are very harmful to the scalp as well as to hair quality because most of these contain paraphenylenediamine (PPD), ammonia and hydrogen peroxide. Since ancient times, henna is the only natural hair colour which is been successfully absorbed on hair cortex and gives a permanent hair colour. But the shade obtained is brownish orange. All over the world researchers are trying to develop a 100% natural permanent hair color with natural black or brown shade and which stays stable for at least 16 washes as per the requirement of permanent hair color. The aim of the present study is to formulate and evaluate a polyherbal hair color reconstituted gel, which is completely paraphenylenediamine (PPD), ammonia and hydrogen peroxide free. It is based on principle that polyphenolic compounds such as Gallic acid undergo complex formation with various iron sources to give natural black shades on hair. The complex formation is pH dependant and it gives stable black color on human hair evaluated by standard hair wash study.

Keywords: Natural hair color reconstituted gel, henna, para-phenylenediamine, ammonia and hydrogen peroxide.