Potential of Tropical Biomass for the Bioactive Ingredients in Cosmetics

Cosmetic-based biomass continues to show global market growth and is predicted to increase up to 2030 with a CAGR of 4.2% by 2023. It brings continued research and development as well as making innovative innovations such as how to create cosmetic products from bioresources. Tropical biomasses are interesting sources that attract all scientists and companies to find ingredients for cosmetics. Increasing the safe and natural products further encourages innovation in the development of safe and green cosmetic products needed by the global market as an effort to reduce the long-term negative impact of the use of cosmetics from non-renewable sources, namely fossil oil. Because of its abundance, high availability, diversity of plant sources, and low cost, biomass is now recognized as a viable renewable resource for bio-based cosmetics. Tropical biomasses have been reported to contain active compounds that have benefited as a cosmetic ingredient. This chapter discusses the potency of various kinds of biomass from non-wood biomass, woody biomass, and agricultural residue which has basic active compounds as cosmetic ingredients. Mapping the global market growth on cosmetic-based biomass strengthens the concerned scholar to do research and development in this subject started in the introduction. The last section is a picture of the challenge and future direction in the development of cosmetic-based biomass that needs to be addressed.