IPB Students Create Beauty Scrub from Egg Shell and Red Onion Skin
Beautiful, which women do not want to look beautiful? All women would want it. Beauty does not only mean how thick and attractive the makeup on the face is. It includes cleanliness and tenderness. This desire to be beautiful encourages every woman to use various treatments, starting from skin care, face, and so on. Now, the beauty of the body is desired not only by women. Many men have done so for the needs of body hygiene.
The increasing needs for the body beauty have caused the many beauty products made available. Unfortunately, not a few beauty products are unsafe to use because they contain harmful materials, especially the whitening products. The beauty products in circulation with all kinds of dosages and chemical content has resulted in more side effects. Therefore, there should be other innovative efforts in utilizing natural bleach and removing dirt from the skin.
Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) students, members of the Community Creativity Program seem to understand the needs for safe and natural beauty product. They have innovatively created natural beauty products from the skin of red onion or shallots and egg shell. The skin of shallots and eggshell are mixed into a scrub to whiten and rejuvenate the skin. The quercetin content in the shallot skin serves as whitener, while the calcium in the egg shells can help remove the dead skin cells and play an important role of maintaining cell renewal. Lack of calcium will cause dryness, irritation, and premature formation of wrinkles.
So far, shallot skin and eggshell are only a waste and have not been utilized optimally. However, through the creative and innovative ideas of Iik Handayani, Virnanda Dwi Susanti, Sarah Tazkya, Ella Maudy Sabdariffa, and Rizky Budi Nugraha, the wastes can be of high value. This innovative idea began when Iik as the head of the research team attended a lecture at the Faculty of Animal Husbandry about the by-products of animal farming. The study on the beauty products in the form of scrubs from the shallot skin and egg shell was carried out for one month in Biochemistry Laboratory and Animal Farming By-Product Laboratory, IPB.
The scrub from the shallot skin and eggshell is an effective, innovative, creative and environmentally friendly product because the shallot skin and eggshell turn out to support each other in the function of the body scrub, that is, beneficial to the health and beauty of the body. In addition, this scrub is safe because of no preservatives. Its natural preservatives are from the anti-oxidants contained in the shallot skin. Iik and the team hope that there will be more innovations in other beauty products that are safe and natural, not just for the skin. (Mtd)
