Cannabis-derived ingredients: Trends for a promising future cosmetic

Abstract

The world market has been introduced with cannabis industry since long ago before the start of the Common Era. Since a century ago, this industry has been overwhelmed with controversial legal battles and debates. However, recently, the legitimate cannabis market has been growing rapidly and is highly potential to significantly boost the world's economy. This intensive review is organised to elaborate on the indirect cost and profit potentials associated with the industrial-scale cannabis and hemp cultivation and processing as well as its formulation for cosmetics applications. The search for new alternatives for hemp and to help local farmers expanding their current practices is highly on demand for the improvement of the worldwide hemp markets. Summarizing all the data from various studies and countries, this review presents a comprehensive discussion focusing on cosmetics applications starting from the therapeutic potentials of the cannabis and hemp, regulatory resources, its safety and effectiveness, mechanism in treating skin diseases and the future prospect of cannabis in cosmetics industries. The current stigma of the world hemp industry has somehow prevented farmers from switching to large scale cultivation of the cannabis. It is proposed for the state governments to allocate high economic incentives especially for the farmers to willingly taking the challenge in introducing cannabis into their agriculture practices. These additional investment and in-depth research focus could lead to a positive competition to the current products in multiple industries.