Majalah Obat Tradisional
Vol 24, No 2 (2019)

Hair Growth Promoting Activity of Green Tea Leaves (Camellia sinensis l.) Ethanolic Extract

Vini Noviani (Magister of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Pancasila University, Jakarta, Indonesia)
Shelly Thauresia (Magister of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Pancasila University, Jakarta, Indonesia)
Elsa Fitria Apriani (Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Sriwijaya University, South Sumatra, Indonesia)
Partomuan Simanjuntak (Magister of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Pancasila University, Jakarta, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Jul 2019

Abstract

Hair loss and baldness is one of the abnormalities in the hair that often occurs in both men and women. Many cosmetic products from natural to synthetic materials have been developed to overcome these problems, yet, synthetics product is potential to give side effects, such as local irritation. In this study, green tea (Camellia sinensis L.) leaves were used as active substances. The aim of this study was to attest the hair growth promoting activity of n-hexane, water, and ethyl acetate fractions from ethanolic extract of green tea leaves. Green tea leaves contain flavonoids which can help promoting hair growth. To obtain the compound, green tea leaves were made into ethanolic extract. The extract was obtained by maceration using 70% ethanol then partitioned using n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and water, to obtain the n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and water fractions. Ethyl acetate and water fractions have been shown to contain flavonoids, so it could continue the hair growth promoting activities with concentrations of 1% and 4%. Hair growth promoting activity was performed on rabbits. The results showed that 4% of water fraction containing flavonoids had the best hair growth promoting activity.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

TradMedJ

Publisher

Subject

Health Professions Medicine & Pharmacology Public Health

Description

raditional Medicine Journal (Majalah Obat Tradisional), or Trad. Med. J. (ISSN 1410-5918 (print) and ISSN 2406-9086 (online)), is an international scientific journal published by Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Gadjah Mada, three times annually. Collaborating with Indonesian Pharmacist Association, ...