Design and evaluation of water- melon rind extract cream

To formulate and evaluate natural cream from water-melon rind extract to give a smooth texture of cream. The cream was prepared by using the ingredients water melon rind extract, mango butter, watermelon seed oil, white beeswax, borax, light liquid paraffin, chloroform etc by adding the oily phase to aqueous phase resulting in o/w emulsion. Formulations were prepared and various evaluation parameters were studied. Among the various evaluations the pH and spreadability of the formulation was found to be good and can be safely applied to skin.