The National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow one of the constituent  laboratory under CSIR has developed the know how  utilizing  herbs,which are abundantly available through out India. There is world wide revival of interest for using herbal colours especially in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals as the synthetic colours may cause side effects to human being. 

Keeping this in view the  laboratory has  developed purely natural herbal colourants for lipstick. 

Also  developed Herbal Lipstick with mood altering functional attributes including stimulation of creative thoughts on persons who apply the same on lips. These functional attributes are attributed to the selected blended formulations of Natural colours and essential oils/aroma isolates incorporated in these lipstick. Lips being the most sensitive part of skin, can effect fast trans-dermal absorption and also the lips being very close to nose could facilitate a continuous inhalation of the slowly vaporizing essential oils/aroma chemicals blended in the lipstick, thus, proving a double effect on the specific centers of the brain leading to mood alteration and change of mental perceptions. 

The different blends of essential oil/aroma isolates/natural aroma chemical selectively blended in the lipsticks give anti-depressant, mood enhancing/mood lifting and creative thoughts inducing mental state. While the lipsticks with different colour shades blended with aromatic principles is developed for women, another range of lipsticks have also been developed without colours but with  a moisturizing transparent type for men to have similar mood altering functions and to achieve altered mental perception similar to that of the lipsticks developed for women.  

Both the groups of lipstick have some additional health promotive/protective and beautifying attributes by preventing the lips from darkening and providing it with moisturizing effects that give attractive luster and texture to the lips.  The lipsticks with colour, developed for women, have antibacterial, antifungal and anti-inflammatory effects too. With regard to lip beautification, topical application lipsticks with different shades of colours are well known. Likewise, spraying of aromatic oils or sprays for refreshing is also well known. Many studies have been carried out on the effect of fragrance on mental perception; for example the nice fragrance has an aesthetic impression and multiple positive effects on our life, they are not only for pleasure and seduction, healing and magic products but also for positive mood creators.

PROCESS DESCRIPTION:

Natural Colour from Plant Safe eco-friendly, health protective herbal colours and aroma useful for cosmaceutical application (Functional lipstick - Luvstik).. 

A process of extraction of herbal colours comprising of:

•       Procurement of plant material; powder it and extract with a polar solvent  concentrat the   soluble extract under controlled conditions of temperature and pressure make slurry with silica gel for column chromatography; eluted in silica column with a mixture of non-polar and organic solvents to obtain the desired fractions; concentrate the fractions separately to get the colours.
  

• ·     The base material of cosmaceuticals like lipstick, eye shadow, glowglitters and rouges were prepared by using mixture of bees wax, castor oil, safflower oil in different ratio and mixed them with aforesaid extracted colours with the base material in different ratio.
  

•             Functional attributes i.e. aroma isolates/ essential oil 
              were mixed  with the base material.

PRODUCT / BY PRODUCTS SPECIFICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS: 

Cosmaceutical - functional lipstick (Luvstik), eye shadows, glowglitter, rouges.

Physico-chemical parameters and HPTLC fingerprint profile of colours have been developed.

ADVANTAGES OVER EXISTING    PROCESS / PRODUCT:

• Not a single cosmaceutical in the market with functional attributes.
• Herbal colours are non-toxic, highly lipophilic, antioxidant and anti-microbial anti-inflammatory and are used in leucoderma more particularly of lips.
• Colorant has different original shades of colours from purplish red, cerise, ruby red, beetroot purple, dark violet, deep blue, blackish blue, pastel red, pale red, purplish red, rose red, deep majenta, amaranth, dark purple, orange, deep violet .
• From these colours, by different combinations, further shades can be obtained.
• Colour may be changed to different shades with organic and inorganic acids and bases.
• Organic solvents used for extraction of colorants are totally removed by vacuum drying.
• Aroma – mood lifting, anti-depressant, antistress, sensual pleasure providing, creative thought inducing, anxiety reducing, refreshing, stimulant, soothing, fragrant & antimicrobial. 
• Composition has improved moisturizing effect.

Lipsticks of different colour shades with functional attributes have been developed for women and lipstick without colour but with functional attributes for men.

Aromatherapy by cosmaceuticals i.e. lipstick, eye shadow, glowglitter etc.

The herbal lipsticks

Shelf-life - 1 year 

The Luvstik been tested for its quality / stability 

patent: 

Terms & Conditions:

            Lump-sum Premium                  -           Rs.15,00,000 FOR
                                                                       INDIA

            Recurring Royalty                     -           2.5% on sales

            Period of License                      -           20 Years

            Nature of License                     -           Non-exclusive