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@article{174786,
        author = {Ms.  Pallavi B. Sadgir and Mr.  Rutik M. Kadam and Ms.  Ashwini K. Darane and Ms. Vrushali P. Khaire},
        title = {FORMULATION OF HERBAL LIP BALM FROM SELENICEREUS UNDATUS},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {11},
        pages = {515-521},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=174786},
        abstract = {Lips are soft and delicate and so are very prone to damage by drying, scaling, chapping. Lipbalms can provide protection to lips from these damages. Some organic colorants used to tint the lipbalms can be hazardous to health. Also, there is a shift from synthetic to herbal products for skin care. Considering these, this herbal lipbalm was made up and coloured by pigment extracted from dragonfruit pigment additive.According to the survey conducted on volunteers, the colour, odour and visual appearance of the lipbalm was found to be very good, excellent and very good respectively. The consistency and glossiness were found to be excellent and the spreadability of the lipbalm was found to be very good. There was no irritation to any volunteer after applying the lipbalm. Recently, the need for herbal merchandise is increasing especially within side the cosmetics industry. Lip balm is one of the extensively used beauty merchandise that functioned as a shade of protection to the lip and may contain subdue numerous poisonous results of lead and technology of oxidative pressure. Red Dragon Fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) contains an effective antioxidant amaranth colorant referred to as betacyanin pigment. Looking at this benefit, this research aims to analyze the antioxidant activities of betacyanin pigment in lip balm from the peel of Red Dragon Fruits. The finding indicated antioxidant properties contained in lip balm from the peel of Red Dragon fruit result changed into 2.0% using in house method based on International Food Research Journal.},
        keywords = {Herbal Lipbalm , Selenicereus Undatus .},
        month = {March},
        }