Production of Lip Balm from Natural Dyes

Irmawati Akma Abdul Hapiz, Jemima Japakumar, Jivinthiran Jayagobi, Mohamad Azfar Jamaluddin, Sharmila Arumugam

2018

Abstract

Recently, demands for natural products increases especially in the cosmetics industries. Lip balm is one of the widely used cosmetic products whose purpose is to give a colour to the lip as well as prevent lip dryness and acts as lip treatment. The purpose of this study is to extract natural dyes from five selected plant sources which are roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa), dragon fruit (Hylocereus costaricensis), beetroot (Beta vulgaris), betel leaf (Piper betle) and red cabbage (Brassica oleracea) and also to produce a good quality, good colour consistency and effective dyes in the production of natural lip balm. There are several methods used to extract the dyes from selected plant which involved different kind of solvent. Results from this study shows that the best solvent used for all the extraction processes is ethanol compared to methanol and distilled water. It is proved by the higher yield of extracted dyes that comes from extraction using ethanol as a solvent. The plant roselle produces 117.6 ml of dyes, soaked dragon fruit produces 300 ml of dyes, for other sources which are beetroot, red cabbage and betel leaf produces 300 ml, 250 ml and 100 ml respectively. Roselle produce dark red dyes as appears on lip balm, dragon fruit produces dark purple dyes and turn to pink when mixed with natural ingredient in lip balm. Whereas, dragon fruit peel produces light pink dyes and appears yellowish on lip balm. Beetroot produces dark purle dyes, followed by red cabbage produces light purple dyes while in lip balm it appears purple and betel leaf produces dark green dyes while appears green in lip balm. In addition, the colour obtained from betel leaf on lip balm is darker compared to dyes produced by roselle, dragon fruits, beetroot and red cabbage. The lip balm was applied on a piece of paper to check the colour visibility as well as the consistency of colour which applied on human skin for 10 minutes to check the itchiness or any changes on the skin. In summary, natural dyes from different plant sources were successfully extracted to produce high quality of dyes on cosmetic product. This product has higher marketing potential where the production cost is cheaper and it is considered as organics product.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Abdul Hapiz I., Japakumar J., Jayagobi J., Jamaluddin M. and Arumugam S. (2018). Production of Lip Balm from Natural Dyes. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST, ISBN 978-989-758-496-1, pages 202-206. DOI: 10.5220/0010040502020206

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icest18,
author={Irmawati Akma Abdul Hapiz and Jemima Japakumar and Jivinthiran Jayagobi and Mohamad Azfar Jamaluddin and Sharmila Arumugam},
title={Production of Lip Balm from Natural Dyes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST,},
year={2018},
pages={202-206},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010040502020206},
isbn={978-989-758-496-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology - Volume 1: ICEST,
TI - Production of Lip Balm from Natural Dyes
SN - 978-989-758-496-1
AU - Abdul Hapiz I.
AU - Japakumar J.
AU - Jayagobi J.
AU - Jamaluddin M.
AU - Arumugam S.
PY - 2018
SP - 202
EP - 206
DO - 10.5220/0010040502020206