FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF HERBAL PAPAYA SOAP

Plants have long been thought to be a rich source of bioactive chemicals with medicinal properties, according to traditional medicine. Carica papaya Linn, often known as pawpaw, is a monoecious, dioecious, or hermaphrodite tree that belongs to the Caricacea family. It is known as a nutraceutical fruit and can be employed as a valuable and promising natural medicinal plant due to its antioxidant, antibacterial, antihelminthic, antifungal, antihypertensive, antifertility, and free radical scavenging characteristics. As a result, C. papaya is regarded as the king of medicine due to its extensive pharmacological potential and medicinal benefits of various papaya sections. The current study is concentrating on the nutritional benefits of papaya as a natural therapeutic plant. A produced active component consisting of crude papain enzyme is a solid soap formulation with antioxidant origin from fresh papaya, and it may be employed as soap in this research work to improve human skin health. The benefits of adding crude papain enzymes that are safe for the skin were investigated in this study, with the goal of creating a solid soap formula that fulfils SNI 1996 standards. Formula IV, which complies with SNI 1996, is a soap formula, and other formulae with an IC50 value of 13,657 ppm have the maximum antioxidant activity. When compared to soap, the % dirt removal value for the negative control (with enzyme) is higher. Papaya (Carica papaya linn) is well-known around the world for its remarkable nutritional and therapeutic benefits. The entire Papaya plant, including its leaves, seeds, ripe and unripe fruits, and their juice, has been utilised as a traditional medicine since time immemorial. The fruit is oval in shape with a yellowish-green exterior and yellow flesh. Keywords: papain, antioxidant, solid soap, carica papaya linn