Specialized Plant Metabolites as Cosmeceuticals
- 1st Edition - August 3, 2024
- Editors: Deepika Kathuria, Ajay Sharma, Jesus Simal Gandara
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 1 4 8 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 3 4 5 - 7
Specialized Plant Metabolites as Cosmeceuticals presents a comprehensive guide to traditional medicinal plants that are used in the field of cosmetics. Chapters cover geographi… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSpecialized Plant Metabolites as Cosmeceuticals presents a comprehensive guide to traditional medicinal plants that are used in the field of cosmetics. Chapters cover geographical distribution, extraction of key components from each plant, traditional uses, pharmacognostic characteristics, phytochemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, and future prospects. This book will be a valuable asset for researchers and graduate students of chemistry, botany, biotechnology, microbiology, cosmetology and the pharmaceutical sciences. As medicinal plants are a rich source of a variety of bioactive secondary metabolites, their wide range of pharmacological applications as antibiotics, antifungals, anticancer agents, and antimicrobial and antiviral applications provide new and exciting avenues.
In addition, they have great implications for the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and personal care product industries. Secondary metabolites also ecofriendly, cost effective, biocompatible, and cause less side effects as compare to synthetic compounds.
- Highlights comprehensive information on major classes of plant secondary metabolites with potent cosmeceutical applications
- Provides details on the encapsulation of secondary metabolites for the betterment of cosmeceutical products
- Covers toxicity of secondary metabolite based cosmeceuticals
1. Specialized Plant Metabolites in Cosmeceuticals
2. Cosmeceutical Applications of Terpenes and Terpenoids
3. Flavonoids: A key Component of Cosmeceuticals
4. Cosmeceutical Applications of Alkaloids
5. Hydroxybenzoic Acids in Cosmeceuticals
6. Hydroxycinnamic Acids in Cosmeceuticals
7. Use of Stillbenes in Cosmeceuticals
8. Lignins in Cosmetic Industry
9. Saponins: A Natural Raw Material for Cosmeceuticals
10. Essential Oils: An Essential Component of Cosmetic Industry
11. Application of Natural Oil and Fat in Cosmetic Industry
12. Resin and Oleoresins in Cosmeceuticals
13. Allergic Reactions from Essential Oils and other Specialized Plant Metabolites
14. Encapsulation of Specialized Plant Metabolites for the Consistent and Persistent Cosmeceuticals Christie
- No. of pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 3, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443191480
- eBook ISBN: 9780443153457
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