FORMULATION OF THE BODY SCRUB CREAM CONTAINING MORINGA SEED POWDER (Moringa oleifera) AND ITS EXAMINATION DERMAL ACUTE IRRITATION

Abstract

Moringa seeds (Moringa oleifera) have many substances such as antioxidants, minerals and vitamins that are useful for skin health. Moringa seed could be used as additional material of cosmetic. One of the misscrub cream by using moringa seed as abrasive material (abrasiver). The purpose of this research is to know the optimal formulation of scrub cream moringa seed and characterization based on the requirement of quality skin moisturizers according to SNI 16-4399-1996 and the safety of its use by conducting dermal acute irritation test. The dermalacute irritation test was performed by the Draize test method on white rats (Rattus norvegicus) male sprague-dawley strain. The results of the study show that the most optimum scrub cream products based on panelist preferences level are scrub cream with the addition of 4.5% moringa seed with a score of 5.67. Formulation scrub cream with the addition of 3,5; 4,5; and 5,5 % moringa seed qualify skin moisturizers according to SNI 16-4399-1996 with pH value of 6,88-7,31; density 1 g/mL; emulsion stability of 95.19-96,61%; and negative microbial contamination. The three formulations of moringa seed scrub cream also do not give skin irritation effect to test animals at 24 and 48 hours with primary dermal irritation index or PDII=0.