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Niosomes are another kind of liposomes that are supposed to be osmotically active, highly flexible, and comparatively more stable than liposomes (Bartelds et al. 2018; Sharma 2019). These nanomaterials are mainly composed of nonionic surfactants like alkyl ethers, alkyl glyceryl ethers, sorbitan fatty acid esters, and polyoxyethylene fatty acid esters stabilized by cholesterol (CH) (Muzzalupo and Mazzotta 2019). Like liposomes, they also form a lamellar structure in which the hydrophilic heads have oriented outward and the hydrophobic tails point inward or facing the opposite direction to form a bilayer (Sharma 2019). Niosomes are economically viable nanomaterials compared to liposomes and other related nanomaterials; moreover, they possess various novel properties such as their biodegradable, biocompatible, and non‐immunogenic nature (Singh et al. 2019).