Skin Sensitizers in Cosmetics and Skin Care Products

Herbal Cosmetics for Skin and Hair care

The cosmetics are the utility products used extensively throughout the world for maintaining and improving general appearance of face and other parts of body e.g. mouth, hand finger, eye, hair, etc. It includes creams, powders, face pack, lotions, moisturizers, shampoo, hair oil, conditioners, nail polish, etc. Smooth, shinning, healthy skin and hair certainly count for a beautiful woman or han...

It's only skin deep: FDA regulation of skin care cosmetics claims.

Anatomy and physiology of newborns and introduction of various and specific skin care products

Full term newborns have a skin that rapidly develops towards adult skin. From the anatomical point of view, the differences are limited, but some changes at birth are responsible for the physiological differences between the skin of infants and adults. Newborns skin exhibits the same barrier function and absorption properties as adults, but external conditions for newborns may be different from...

Safety of skin care products during pregnancy.

QUESTION Many of my female patients complain about acne, unwanted hair growth, and other skin problems that have only developed since they became pregnant. Are products used for these types of benign skin conditions safe to use in pregnancy, as it is understandable that women want to look their best at this important time in their lives? ANSWER With the exception of hydroquinone, which has a ...

State-of-the-art and new options to assess T cell activation by skin sensitizers: Cosmetics Europe Workshop.

Significant progress has been made in the development and validation of non-animal test methods for skin sensitization assessment. At present, three of the four key events of the Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) are assessable by OECD-accepted in vitro methods. The fourth key event describes the immunological response in the draining lymph node where activated dendritic cells present major histoco...