GLYCOL AND GLYCERIN: PIVOTAL ROLE IN HERBAL INDUSTRY AS SOLVENT/CO-SOLVENT
Dr A.R.Padmawar and Upendra Bhadoriya*
ABSTRACT
Plants and herbs offer wide ranges of therapeutic applications and plant extracts now a day’s using extensively for the various purpose world widely. The expansion of herbal medicine in last decade helps researchers to explore knowledge of natural medicine globally. Recently many researchers paid great attention towards the development of herbal medicine and their quality standardization. The quality of herbal products greatly affected by the extraction procedure of herbal ingredients therefore herbal industry focuses towards the production of good quality extract using available resources. The use of specific solvent or co-solvent play vital role towards the success of extraction and sometimes these solvents also possess additive properties; glycol and glycerin are amongst such types of solvent which employed hugely in herbal industry for their additional benefits.
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