This study is about the development of the herbal bath bag during postpartum care. Herbal bathing important for mother because it can fresh mother’s body and gave a therapy during that period. Lack of knowledge about the herbal bathing is the main factor on why this study was conducted. The objectives for this study are to formulate the plant remedies to be used in the 2 in1 mini pocket herbal bath bag production, to investigate the phytochemical that presence in the formulation and determine the presence of anti-bacterial properties in the plant extract based on the formulation and to develop 2 in 1 mini pocket herbal bath bag for traditional herbal bath based on traditional knowledge from the Temuan community in Taman Negara Gunung Ledang. This study focused on two different plant which are Annona muricata (durian belanda) and Psidium guajava (jambu batu). Both plants were used during postpartum care for herbal bathing by indigenous people. Moreover, the plant part used was the leaves. There are five formulation of the plant that a based on the Design Expert software. Basically, this study consists of two tests which are phytochemical screening and antibacterial testing. Phytochemical screening included terpenoids, steroid, flavonoid, quinone and alkaloids test. The result showed that formulation 3 has higher numbers of phytochemical presence which are flavonoid, terpenoid and quinone. In addition, formulation 3 also have higher number of means ± std for result anti-bacterial activity. As a conclusion, the three objectives were successful achieved and formulation 3 was chosen to develop the herbal bath bag.
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