A process for preparing a skin-like flexible coating on a textile is described comprising preparing an Opuntia ficus-indica powder; creating a homogeneous mixture by mixing liquid polyurethane, pigments and additives; reducing the rate of mixing and adding the Opuntia ficus-indica powder to the homogeneous mixture; using a formulation based on the polyurethane and Opuntia ficus-indica homogeneous mixture as a skin-like flexible coating on the textile.