Cosmetics Module 1

Cards (55)

  • Cosmetic sciences
    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
  • International Nomenclature of cosmetic Ingredients Dictionary
    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
    - Solvents, thickeners, preservatives, pH adjusters, plasticizers, fillers, appearance modifiers, anti-oxidants, anti-irritants, delivery systems
  • Claims ingredients
    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
  • Fat
    Product of hydrogenated oil
  • Hydrophilic
    Attracts or is attracted to water
  • Hydrophobic
    Repeals water