Cosmetic Sciences: Skin Care Ingredients, Skin Conditions and Regulatory Issues for Cosmetic Professionals Course

Program Overview

This three-part program provides an overview of skin care ingredient technologies designed to prevent or reverse skin aging. It covers topics such as claims substantiation, cell and skin biology, the skin's aging exposome, free radical species and antioxidants, sunscreens, pigmentation, and brighteners. The program is suitable for cosmetic industry professionals of all experience levels and scientific backgrounds.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Introduction to claims & claims substantiation, cell & skin biology, the skin’s aging exposome and the Hallmarks of Aging, free radical species & antioxidants, sunscreens, pigmentation & brighteners.
• Part II of this 3-part series offers cosmetic industry professionals in all sectors - regardless of experience and scientific background - an overview of popular and upcoming skin care ingredient technologies designed to prevent or reverse skin aging.
• Beginning with an introduction to the skin’s numerous cell types and basic anatomy and physiology, this course then examines the effects of internal and external factors on the skin’s aging processes at cellular and tissue levels.
New research now influencing today’s skin care development trends will be highlighted. Peptides, advanced plant and stem cell extracts, antioxidants, growth factors, sunscreens, brighteners and other age-fighting ingredients currently found in cosmetics, as well as technologies now emerging from research labs around the world, will be discussed within the framework of their effects on aging skin. Legal cosmetic claims and claims substantiation methodologies will be discussed in light of upcoming regulations that will go into effect in the next few years.