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This book gives an idea to its readers about the basics of evaluating antioxidant nature of herbal constituents, the relation of free radical scavenging activity with its chemical nature and its role in safe guarding the skin from deleterious external environment. A clinical relevance of some herbal drugs is also discussed with an approach to incorporate new vision in making novel drug delivery system for photoprotective herbs, in order to maximize their effect. The silent features of the book are:- APPROACHES FOR FIGHTING AGAINST PHOTOAGING PROFILE OF ANTIOXIDANT PLANTS PHOTOPROTECTIVE EXTRACT ANALYSIS Our attempt is to make this book informative and exhaustive to all the students and for those who are working in the field of photoprotective drugs and designing novel drug delivery system for them. We hope that our effort would prove worthy for its readers.This book is part of the dessertation work submitted at UIOP, Pt. RSSU, Raipur. We pay our gratitude to UIOP, Pt. RSSU, Raipur and SRIP, Kumhari. Sincere thanks to Prof. Shailendra Saraf, Professor, UIOP, Pt. RSSU, Raipur and Principal, Management and faculty members of SRIP, Kumhari.

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Prof. Swarnlata Saraf, Director and Dean, University Institute of Pharmacy, Pt. R. S.University, Raipur, Dr. Chanchal Deep Kaur, Associate Professor and Ms. Anshita Gupta, Assistant Professor are from Shri Rawatpura Sarkar Institute of Pharmacy, Kumhari.Their areas of work include targeted drug delivery systems, herbal drug technology and NDDS.

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