Kajian Studi Etnofarmasi Tanaman Obat yang Berpotensi Sebagai Kosmetik Herbal pada Beberapa Daerah di Indonesia

Abstract

Medicinal plants have long been known to provide many benefits: medicine,  foodstuffs, and cosmetics. The approachtaken is to explore a particular community in the use of herbal cosmetics from natural ingredients, namely ethnopharmacy. The research  aimed to inventory the types of medicinal plants that can be used as herbal cosmetics in several regions in Indonesia, namely the Dayak ethnic (Kanayatn), Central Java, Using, keraton, Melayu, Wolio and Sasak. The data obtained from this research used the narrative review method such as database Google, Pubmed, Science Direct, then selected journals that met the  research criteria. Based on the exploration of articles in several databases, the results obtained 44 families and 76 plant species used as herbal cosmetics such  as  removing  body  odor,  nail care, eye care, facial and skin care, hair care, stamina booster and postpartum  care  for  women. The processing and usage are still done  traditionally,  namely  to be  shredded,  cut  into pieces, milled, boiled, kneaded, burned, drunk, pasted, smeared, rubbed,  rubbed,  chewed.