667 A facial treatment cleansing device enhanced delivery of topical skin care products

Topical Skin Care

Topical treatment for facial burns.

BACKGROUND Burn injuries are an important health problem. They occur frequently in the head and neck region - the area central to a person's identity, that provides our most expressive means of communication. Topical interventions are currently the cornerstone of treatment of partial-thickness burns to the face. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of topical interventions on wound healing in peo...

1 Skin Health and Natural Products for Topical and Nutraceutical Skin Care

Skin, as a protective organ of the body, is subject to many factors from within the body and from the outside environment that constantly challenge its integrity and protective functions. Diverse factors such as ultraviolet light (UV), atmospheric pollution, increased atmospheric ozone, wounds, infections, hormonal status, metabolic diseases, psychological stress and the natural process of agin...

Skin electroporation for transdermal and topical delivery.

Electroporation is the transitory structural perturbation of lipid bilayer membranes due to the application of high voltage pulses. Its application to the skin has been shown to increase transdermal drug delivery by several orders of magnitude. Moreover, electroporation, used alone or in combination with other enhancement methods, expands the range of drugs (small to macromolecules, lipophilic ...

Topical Nano and Microemulsions for Skin Delivery

Nanosystems such as microemulsions (ME) and nanoemulsions (NE) offer considerable opportunities for targeted drug delivery to and via the skin. ME and NE are stable colloidal systems composed of oil and water, stabilised by a mixture of surfactants and cosurfactants, that have received particular interest as topical skin delivery systems. There is considerable scope to manipulate the formulatio...