An area which studies the development of products designed to bring improvement on the look and feel of skin, hair, nails, and other surfaces of the body
Cosmetics
Any product that you put on your body for the specific purpose of improving the appearance or feel
Cosmetic directive
It was adopted in 1979 to ensure the free circulation of cosmetic products by placing responsibility of the product on the cosmetic manufacturer
1991
Cosmetic directive was amended for the sixth time in this year and this amendment prohibited the marketing of cosmetic products containing ingredients or combinations of ingredients tested on animals
Chemistry
The most important aspect of cosmetic science
InternationalNomenclature of cosmeticIngredientsDictionary
The raw materials that are used in most cosmetics around the wworld are listed in this dictionary
Functional, aesthetic, and claims
Three types of cosmetic ingredients
Functional ingredients
Are the ones that provide benefit of cosmetics
- Surfactants, conditioning agents, colorants, fragrances, reactive ingredients, film formers, and drug actives.
Aesthetic ingredients
Are those that help make delivery of the functional ingredients more acceptable
It is sometimes called asfairy dust Are ingredients added to formula at a low level for the primary purpose of getting to put the ingredient name of the label- Natural extracts, vitamins, proteins, biotechnology, other fanciful made-up ingredient names
3D Printing Cosmetics, Epigenetics, Microbial cleansing, sustainable sourcse
Future of Cosmetic Science (4)
3D Printing Cosmetics
Future of Cosmetic ScienceWhich may have some application to the color cosmetic area
Epigenetics
Future of Cosmetic ScienceA field which activates DNA sequences based on environmental conditions
Microbial cleansing
Future of Cosmetic ScienceUsing good microbes to clean skin surface
Sustainable sources
Future of Cosmetic ScienceRaw materials derived from renewable resources like palnts
Absorption
This is a physical process which involves the assimilation of one body by another
Adsorption
Where one substance clings to the surface of another substance, withouth being assimilated by it, or having chemical reaction from it
Analysis
This is where a reaction to separate a compound or substance takes place
Calorie
It is simply a unit of energy
Catalysis
The process of adding a catalyst to a reaction to speed up that reaction
Catalyst
Substance that speed up the reaction, it remains intact and cannot be destroyed or changed by the process
Colloid
A form of a suspension with some characteristics of a solution
Conduction
This is how heat is transferred along with a metal
Convection
Method of transferring heat through the air
Crystallization
Involves negative and positive ions being packed tightly together, in order to form a crystal lattice in aparticular order to form crystals
Decantation
Process of pouring a liquid from one container into another in such way as to leave the sediment behind undistributed
Dispersion
A colloidal system consisting of dispersed particles and the medium in which they are suspended
Distillation
Involves a process of vaporization followed by condensation.
The difference in the boiling point of various substances is utilized to separate them
Distillate
The condensed material in distillation
Residue
The uncondensed material in distillation
Emulsifier
Substance that allows two immiscible liquids to come together in order to combine to form a stable suspension
Emulsion
This is when a suspension in both phases consists of immiscible liquids
Enzyme
A biological catalyst
Filtration
Process used to separate two components, as long as one component is an insoluble solid.
Invovles passing through a filter
Homogenous
A mixture that is uniform in composition.
In one phase
Heterogenous
Mixture of non-uniform composition.
More than one phase
Hydrogenation
Term used where a substance combines with hydrogen