International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue II, February 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705

Formulation and Evaluation of Herbal Cold Cream Using Bombax Ceiba Fruit Pulp

Manish Kamble, Pradeep Raghatate, Satish Meshram
Kamla Nehru College of Pharmacy, Butibori, Nagpur (M.S.) India

Abstract: In day to day practice the medicinal plants or herbs are widely used by the traditional practitioners for curing various diseases. There is an increase in demand for plant based medicines, cosmetics, health products, food supplements and various pharmaceutical products. The aim of present study is to formulate and evaluate cold cream using Bombax ceiba fruit pulp. Traditionally, Bombax ceiba is a well-known plant used in treatment of many diseases, with its therapeutic activity partly due to the presence of flavonoids, phenolics, sesquiterpenoids, shamimicin, bombamalosides, bombamalones, bombasin, bombasin 4-o-glucoside, and bombalin. The literature stated the plant having various pharmacological activities such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticarcinogenic, anti-inflammatory, immunemodulatory, hypotensive, hypolipidemic, antihyperglycemic, and analgesic

Keywords: Bombax ceiba, cold cream, fruit pulp.

I. INTRODUCTION

Bombax ceiba is important medicinal plant of tropical and subtropical India. It is commonly known as silk cotton tree and semal which belongs to family Bombacaceae. Traditional medicicinal uses of this plant are reported in Ayurveda Sidhha & Unani. It is a lofty, deciduous tree upto 45 m tall and 6 m or more in girth with horizontally spreading branches and young stems covered with stout, hard prickles1. The bark is pale ash to silver grey in color. Flowers are large in diameter, red in color and numerous with copious nectar.
The fruits are brown capsule-like upto 15 mm long, filled with numerous black seeds which are irregular obovoid in shape, smooth and oily with dense silky hair2. The fruit pulp is sweet and edible. According to ayurveda, it has stimulant, aphrodiasic, diuretic, cardiotonic, antidiarrheal, haemostatic, antidysentric3-4etc. Young fruits are useful in calculus affections, chronic inflammations,anti microbial, and ulceration of the bladder and kidney5. Flowers of B. ceiba (25–50 g as feedstuff) were fed to the animal as anthelmintics6. Ethnomedicinal uses of B. ceiba bark externally for cattle wounds7.