Development of Natural Facial Mask for Skincare from Local Materials

Abstract

This research aims to develop a natural facial mask from local materials. The latter are natural materials which could be found locally. In this study, we have selected local materials such as silk fibroin, mulberry, and chitosan. Silk fibroin is active ingredient in the prototype because of its high antioxidant activity. On the other hand, the mulberry extract is antioxidant and antibacterial activity in the facial mask. In the meantime, chitosan could be extracted from local materials such as squid pen and shrimp shells. Chitosan was chosen to be material of the facial mask to nourish good mechanical properties of the mask's structure. The research has developed the natural facial mask with the product design technique. Also, this study integrates consumer's requirements and quality function deployment (QFD) to transform consumer's needs into technical design specifications. The result show that the consumer's requirements which obtain high score are certification standard, ability to release substances, and skin adhesion. Therefore, consumer's preferences and technical specifications helped to achieve the prototype. The prototype was developed and evaluated according to consumer's satisfactions. The result of consumer satisfactions is natural products and skin adhesion. Nevertheless, consumers suggest further improvement in term of color, odor, thickness, and durability of the product.