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- Botanical Name : Acacia Concina
- Family Name : Fabaceae
- Common Name : Shikakai, Soap Pod
- Part Used : Leaf, Pods, Bark, Leaves, Fruits
- Habitat : It is a climbing shrub native to asia, common in the warm plains of central and south india
- Product offered : Leaf, Bark, Pods, Leaves, Fruits
Advantages :
- Acacia concinna has been used traditionally for hair care in the Indian Subcontinent since ancient times.
- It is one of the Ayurvedic medicinal plants.
- The fruit is known in India as shikakai "fruit for hair" in its use as a traditional shampoo.
- In order to prepare it the fruit pods, leaves and bark of the plant are dried, ground into a powder, then made into a paste.
- While this traditional shampoo does not produce the normal amount of lather that a sulfate-containing shampoo would, it is considered a good cleanser.
- It is mild, having a naturally low pH, and doesn't strip hair of natural oils.
- Usually no conditioner is needed, for shikakai also acts as a detangler.
- An infusion of the leaves has been used in anti-dandruff preparations.
- Concinna extracts are used in natural shampoos or hair powders and the tree is now grown commercially in India and Far East Asia.
- The plant parts used for the dry powder or the extract are the bark, leaves or pods.
- The bark contains high levels of saponins, which are foaming agents found in several other plant species used as shampoos or soaps.
- Saponin-containing plants have a long history of use as mild cleaning agents.
- Saponins from the plant's pods have been traditionally used as a detergent, and in Bengal for poisoning fish; they are documented to be potent marine toxins.