Formulation of natural papaya soap with papain enzyme: article

This research was done to formulate the natural papaya soap by adding papain enzyme and papaya pulp without any fragrance and to determine the concentration of vitamin c present in the sample of soaps. Natural papaya soap is formulated by adding crude papain enzyme and pulp of papaya juice. Nowadays, people are very concern about the ingredients of skincare especially cleanser and soap. The use of papain enzyme in the natural papaya soap is to prevent skin from irritation. The soap was produced using melt and pour soap, while papain enzyme and papaya pulp were added with different formulation. The amount of the crude papain enzyme is 0.5,1 and 1.5 %wt/volume of the soap. Moreover, 15,25, 30 %wt/v of the pulp papaya juice in the soap. Then the vitamin C concentration in each formulated soap was determined using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). The highest concentration of vitamin c (120.25 µg/mL) was found in sample formulated with 30% (w/v) papaya pulp and 1% (w/v) papain enzyme.