Desenvolvimento de formulação base condicionadora para cabelos com incorporação dos óleos de attalea speciosa mart. ex spreng e astrocaryum huaimi mart. e análise comparativa

Abstract

The palm trees of the Babassu (Attalea speciosa Mart. ex Spreng) and the Tucum (Astrocaryum huaimi Mart.) are found in much of the Amazon rainforest. Its fruits have nuts, which are edible and rich in fatty acids, such as lauric (mostly), myristic and palmitic. Because they have these acids, the oils of Tucum and Babaçu are widely used in cosmetics for skin and hair. This work aims to test the oils extracted from the chestnuts of Babaçu and Tucum incorporated to a conditioning base and evaluate their benefits in different types of hair. The oils of these nuts were manually extracted and incorporated into a base cream, and, after the stability tests, the samples were distributed among the volunteers - a conditioner based on Tucum and another based on Babaçu. The six volunteers, with different capillary characteristics, used each of the conditioners for 15 days, and after using a questionnaire to evaluate the quality of these formulations. Both the organoleptic characteristics as well as the results obtained in the hair hairs were evaluated as: hydration, softness and gloss. The physicochemical tests of the gel-defrost cycle, accelerated stability, thermal stress, pH and centrifugation were performed and demonstrated that the formulation has physical-chemical stability. The conditioners were well accepted by the volunteers for their organoleptic characteristics and also for the result at the end of the test, therefore, it was concluded that the Babaçu and Tucum oils have enormous potential for the application and use in hair cosmetics due to their good acceptance by the volunteers.