**4. Conclusions**

Microencapsulation of essential oils in HPβCD was achieved proving that the host-guest complex formation implies different physicochemical characteristics from free essential oil. As advantage, the DPPH radical scavenging capacity of the encapsulated oil was more stable than for the free oil indicating that the inclusion complex with HPβCD could protect the active components of oil against the effect of sunlight. As well, encapsulation also increased the antibacterial activity of essential oils against both *S. aureus* and *E. coli* the observed behavior implies an important increase.
