DEVELOPMENT OF UV PROTECTIVE FABRIC USING NATURAL HERBS

Textile Engineering

Excessive exposure to the sun is a major cause that augment the skin cancer, erythema, abnormal pigmentation and finally suppress the immune system. Due to stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change UV levels are increasing, there is an urgent need to protect human skin from the harmful effects of UV. Compounds with photo-protection activity are very useful in reducing the effect of ultraviolet rays. For this reason, today’s sunscreens that contain one or more different types of chemical filters are used to protect the skin from ultraviolet rays. When this UV rays touch our body surface i.e., skin, it exposed our skin-to-skin cancer, skin irritation, etc. To prevent this, we have been applied rambutan and Cinnamon as a UV protective finish on the fabric surface. The herbals of rambutan and Cinnamon is having the effect of sun care product naturally. It’s also having the ability to cure the healing, soothing, protect skin diseases etc, for our human body. Thus, we extracted these herbals using Soxhlet extraction method and dyed them through padding mangle and the samples will be tested and compared with existing products.

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