Essential Oils and Isolated Terpenes in Nanosystems Designed for Topical Administration: A Review.

ABSTRACT: Essential oils are natural products with a complex composition. Terpenes are the most common class of chemical compounds present in essential oils. Terpenes and the essential oils containing them are widely used and investigated by their pharmacological properties and permeation-enhancing ability. However, many terpenes and essential oils are sensitive to environmental conditions, undergoing volatilization and chemical degradation. In order to overcome the chemical instability of some isolated terpenes and essential oils, the encapsulation of these compounds in nanostructured systems (polymeric, lipidic, or molecular complexes) has been employed. In addition, nanoencapsulation can be of interest for pharmaceutical applications due to its capacity to improve the bioavailability and allow th

SUBMITTER: de Matos SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6523335 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature