Eco-luxury: Making sustainable drugs and cosmetics with Prosopis cineraria natural extracts

Climate change associated with global warming is a major warning of the twenty-first century, threatening ecosystems through uncontrolled temperature rises, drought, lack water strong impact on productivity, economy, and worldwide life well-being. In most cases, poor regions planet suffer from exploitable resources deriving natural reserves. For this reason, wild vegetables able to grow in deserted areas are attracting increasing attention due their beneficial properties. Among them, Prosopis cineraria has been recently recognized UAE not only as cultural heritage but also potential source raw materials for agri-food pharmaceutics still poorly valued. P. occurs world's hot arid semi-arid native or introduced species and, its multiple properties, could be exploited medical, food, more recently, different growing productivity fields like luxury, especially countries UAE. The use actives-rich sources offers clear advantages over synthetic compounds terms process product eco-sustainability. manuscript, we review main properties applications aiming promote scientific interest toward development innovative approaches several productive fields, including pharma cosmetics, exploiting versatility that can extracted various parts plant discuss commercialization opportunities support biodiversity sustainability. conclusion, turns out hostile environments, already providing nutrients populations Western Asia Indian subcontinent possibly translatable regions.