Abstract

The importance of using natural resources such as algae not only benefit human health by presenting a composition of proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, among others, but also can enhance the beauty, if applied to cosmetics. So change for healthier living habits, and environmentally friendly are essential for all consumers. Thus, a good example of utilization of natural resources are microalgae, which may have composition high protein and/or lipids, as compared to macroalgae. Questions regarding the taxonomy of algae, are still frequent among the phycologists. Among the algae here reported, A. platensis was used in this research. This presented after the cultivations in photobioreactors, with the standard means suitable for your cell growth: 40.07% protein, 19.35% lipid and 36.41% carbohydrates, in the dry biomass, ideal for a natural shampoo rich in protein. The formulation that presented the nearest commercial shampoo formulation viscosity was the shampoo with hydrolyzed protein A. platensis to 4.5%.

INTRODUCTION

Algae (seaweeds and microalgae) are the basis of all the aquatic food chain, representing numerous food products, not only to aquatic organisms, as well, to the human diet, serving of vitamin and protein supplements (1, 2, 3, 4).

Guiry (2012) reported a series of questions about the algae: what’s an alga? what’s the species? how many species of organisms are there? how many described species of algae are there?, questions that all phycologists know, this are not easy questions to answer an (5).

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