A potential tocopherol acetate loaded palm oil esters-in-water nanoemulsions for nanocosmeceuticals

Background:Cosmeceuticals are cosmetic-pharmaceutical hybrids intended to enhance health and beauty of the skin. Nanocosmeceuticals use nano-sized system for the delivery of active ingredients to the targeted cells for better penetration. In this work, nanoemulsion from palm oil esters was develop...

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Main Authors: Teo, Brian Sheng Xian, Basri, Mahiran, Zakaria, Mohd Rezuwan Shah, Salleh, Abu Bakar, Raja Abdul Rahman, Raja Noor Zaliha, Abdul Rahman, Mohd Basyaruddin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2010
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22294/1/22294.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22294/
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Summary:Background:Cosmeceuticals are cosmetic-pharmaceutical hybrids intended to enhance health and beauty of the skin. Nanocosmeceuticals use nano-sized system for the delivery of active ingredients to the targeted cells for better penetration. In this work, nanoemulsion from palm oil esters was developed as a delivery system to produce nanocosmeceuticals. The stability of the resulting formulation was tested using various methods. In addition, the effect of components i.e. Vitamin E and Pluronic F-68 on the formulation was also studied. Results: Both vitamin E and Pluronic F-68 were found to co-emulsify and co-stabilized the formulations. The best formulation was found to be the one having the composition of 10% Palm Oil Esters (POEs), 10% vitamin E, 24% Tween 80, 2.4% Pluronic F-68 and 53.6% deionised water. Those compositions are considered to be the best as a nanocosmeceutical product due to the small particle size (94.21 nm), low occurrence of Ostwald ripening and stable at different storing temperatures (5, 25 and 45°C) for four weeks. Conclusions:Palm oil esters-in-water nanoemulsions loaded with vitamin E was successfully formulated and has the potential for the use as nanocosmeceuticals.