Development of HPTLC Qualitative Finger Printing Profile of Almond Oil in Marketed Herbal Cream

The almond oil is lightweight, golden-brown oil which is extracted from sweet almond nuts. Almondoil is derived form almond fruits; is a type of nut oil and used as natural remedy in many of the externaland internal diseases. It is saponifies easily and yields a mild soap with good lather. It can be used as alarge percentage of the fats or as oil added at trace. Oil extracted from almond kernels is non-drying,the oil is edible, but is used largely in the manufacture of certain pharmaceuticals like creams, lotions,lotion bars, hair oils, balms, scrubs, massage oils and soaps. Sweet almond oil is a great emollient forsoftening and conditioning the skin.It is a rich sorce of antioxidants A rapid and simple highperformance thin layer chromatographic method is developed for the qualitative finger printingstandardization of marketed herbal cream containing almond oil extracted from almonds (Prunusamygdalus var. dulcus). The separation was achieved by using Benzene: Methanol (7.5:1.5 v/v) asmobile phase and aluminium backed silica coated TLC plates F254 as stationary phase; the developedplates were dried at 60oC after development. The separated bands on TLC plates were scanned over thewavelength of 560nm using tungsten as a lamp and in absorbance/reflectance mode after derivatizationwith fresh anisaldehyde sulfuric acid reagent dry the plates at 120.