THE SiO2/ZnO COMPOSITE MATERIALS FOR COSMETIC CREAMS

Abstract

Zinc oxide nanoparticles are known to have an effective antibacterial activity and silica based materials are widely used in many medical and cosmetic applications. Therefore, the SiO2 composite materials already synthesized through different methods and by including ZnO, will print an antibacterial activity to the cosmetic creams. The aim of this paper is to obtain cosmetic creams for solar protection from these antimicrobial composite materials based on SiO2/ ZnO. The composite materials were characterized by FTIR, SEM and by studying the antibacterial activity against S. aureus.