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Alternative Utilization of Vegetable Crop: Pumpkin Polysaccharide Extract and Their Efficacy on Skin Hydration

by Setinee Chanpirom^1,2

, Nisakorn Saewan^1,3 and Tawanun Sripisut^1,2,*

Reviewer 1: Anonymous

Reviewer 2:

Submission received: 13 October 2022 / Revised: 28 October 2022 / Accepted: 1 November 2022 / Published: 2 November 2022

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Ingredients with Bioactive Properties, and Its Potential Application in Cosmetics)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear authors,

Congratulations on your manuscript.

I only have few suggestions:

There is no statistical analysis on Figure 4 and Figure 5, please provide them;

The Introduction section can be improved with more references related to the tested species and a cleared Objective;

The conclusion can be more concise and should have no refferences.

Author Response

Reviewer	Comment	MS (cosmetics-1998394)
Reviewer 1	The introduction section can be improved with more references related to the tested species and a cleared objective.	The sentence was revised in the Introduction and Objective parts
	Statistical analysis on Figures 4 and Figure 5.	p value was added in Statistical analysis. The sentence was revised.
	The conclusion can be more concise and should have no references.	The sentence was revised.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

This is an interesting manuscript on a well conducted study

i only have two major concerns

1) English language needs improvement

2) show p value in tables 3 and 4, write

test used for analysis under the table

Author Response

Responses to Reviewer Comments and Suggestions

Reviewer	Comment	MS (cosmetics-1998394)
Reviewer 1	The introduction section can be improved with more references related to the tested species and a cleared objective.	The sentence was revised in the Introduction and Objective parts
	Statistical analysis on Figures 4 and Figure 5.	p value was added in Statistical analysis. The sentence was revised.
	The conclusion can be more concise and should have no references.	The sentence was revised.
Reviewer 2	English language needs improvement.	English was checked and proved by Global Proofreading.
Reviewer 2	Show p value in tables 3 and 4, write test used for analysis under the table.	p value was added in Statistical analysis. Also, it presented under Tables 3 and 4.
-	-	The references were rearranged in all MS
-	-	The title was reworded from “……their skin hydration efficacy” to “…….their efficacy on skin hydration”

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf