Cosmeceuticals: Active Skin Treatment

Formulators' Resource Series

Softcover

Price: $49.00

Format Details

  • Softcover
  • 329 Pages
  • Published 2002
  • ISBN-10: 0-931710-92-8
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-931710-92-6

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  • Description
  • Table of Contents

Cosmeceuticals: Active Skin Treatment is an expanded reference covering the controversial issues of consumer protection, product safety and industry responsibility with regard to treatment cosmetics. Drawing from the expertise of international industry experts, this reference:

  • discusses AHA efficacy and modes of action
  • investigates the anticellulite efficacy of various actives
  • reviews ceramides and hyaluronic acid as skin-care ingredients
  • summarizes the role of application frequency in drug dosing
  • shares efficient schemes for formulating treatment products
  • discusses formulating for sensitive skin
  • covers special care considerations for ethnic, infant and elderly skin
  • covers safety and regulatory issues

New chapters focus on areas such as amphoteric hydroxy complexes, pollution and aging, whitening efficacy, and substantiating antiaging product claims.

Expert Review

This book in 33 chapters reports the opinion of both the industry and the FDA on whether the separate cosmeceutical category is necessary or not.

This way ends this innovative book on cosmeceuticals that reports many interesting topics and ideas useful both for students in chemistry and/or in medicine who desire to better understand the meaning of this unusual created word fusing together the words cosmetic and pharmaceutical.

Read the full review from the Journal of Applied Cosmetology

—P. Morganti
Editor in Cheif
Journal of Applied Cosmetology

    • Introduction
    • Why Cosmeceuticals?
    • Cosmeceuticals or Cosmethics: Industry Responsibility
    • Cosmeceuticals — The Future of Cosmetics?
    • FDA Regulation of Cosmeceuticals
    • Cosmeceuticals as a Third Category
    • Drug Delivery on Skin vs. Application Frequency
    • Factors in Formulating Cosmeceutical Vehicles
    • Efficient Formulation of Cosmeceutical Products
    • Sensitive Skin: Analysis of Symptoms, Perceived Causes and Possible Mechanisms
    • Sensitive Skin
    • Formulating for Sensitive Skin
    • Ethnic Sensitive Skin
    • Infant Skin and Its Care
    • Cosmetics for Elderly People
    • The pH of the Stratum Corneum: An Update
    • Aged Skin, Retinoids and Alpha Hydroxy Acids
    • Hydroxy Acids and Skin Aging
    • Substantiating Antiaging Product Claims
    • Metalloproteinase Inhibitors
    • AHAs and Derivatives
    • AHA and Exfoliative Skin Disease
    • Amphoteric Hydroxy Complexes: AHAs with Reduced Stinging and Irritation
    • Aging and the Future of Enzymes in Cosmetics
    • Skin Lighteners
    • Skin Lightening
    • Melanogenesis Inhibitor from Paper Mulberry
    • Whitening Efficacy of Frequently Used Whitening Ingredients
    • Protecting the Skin Against Exogenous Noxes
    • Pollution and Aging: Antioxidants for Skin
    • Ceramides: Their Promise in Skin Care
    • Hyaluronic Acid in Cosmetics
    • Controlling the Appearance of Cellulite
    • Cellulite Treatments: Snake Oils or Skin Science

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