To evaluate vegetable tanning agents (CATECHOL) of leather from plant

Conventional method of tanning by chrome and other chemicals is hazardous for our natural environment and increases soil and water pollution. Chrome tanned leather causes skin allergies and cancer by oxidation of chromium compounds so in recent years vegetable tanning become popular at global level because various types of synthetic tanning agents have been banned due to their harmful effects. Vegetable tannins found abundantly in different species of plant kingdom. The Present study was carried out to study the potential of some locally available plants that proved to be very effective as an ecofriendly tanning agent.