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Ethnopharmacognostic survey on the natural ingredients used in folk cosmetics, cosmeceuticals and remedies for healing skin diseases in the inland Marches, Central-Eastern Italy

Andrea Pieroni, Cassandra L Quave, Maria Lorena Villanelli, Paola Mangino, Giulia Sabbatini, Luigina Santini, Tamara Boccetti, Monica Profili, Tamara Ciccioli, Loredana Giovanna Rampa, Giovanna Antonini, Claudia Girolamini, Marcello Cecchi, Marco Tomasi
An ethnopharmaceutical study focused on domestic cosmetics, cosmeceuticals, and remedies to heal skin diseases traditionally used in the inland part of the Marches region (Central-Eastern Italy) has been conducted. At present, traditional knowledge concerning home-made phytocosmetics is represented by both the remnants of an orally transmitted folk heritage and also by new forms of knowledge, sometimes coming from popular phytotherapeutical books and the mass media (out of the scope of this survey), but also as a result of recent migration trends from Eastern Europe
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