Editorial: Cosmeceuticals From Medicinal Plants

Namrita Lall^{1

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3}, Mohamad Fawzi Mahomoodally⁴, Debora Esposito⁵, Vanessa Steenkamp⁶, Gokhan Zengin⁷, Aimee Steyn¹, Carel B Oosthuizen¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
² School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States.
³ College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, India.
⁴ Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius.
⁵ Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
⁶ Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁷ Department of Biology, Science Faculty, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.

Editorial

Namrita Lall et al. Front Pharmacol. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 29:11:1149.

doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.01149. eCollection 2020.

Namrita Lall^{1

2

3}, Mohamad Fawzi Mahomoodally⁴, Debora Esposito⁵, Vanessa Steenkamp⁶, Gokhan Zengin⁷, Aimee Steyn¹, Carel B Oosthuizen¹

¹ Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
² School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States.
³ College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, India.
⁴ Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius.
⁵ Department of Animal Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
⁶ Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁷ Department of Biology, Science Faculty, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.

No abstract available

Keywords: acne (acne vulgaris); anti-inflammatory; cosmeceutials; medicinal plant; skin aging.

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