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Handbook of Cosmeceutical Excipients and their Safeties
1st Edition - September 2, 2014
Authors: K Y Heng, T Y Kei, K J Singh, Li Hairui, Poh Ai-Ling, K Lifeng
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9781907568534
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eBook ISBN:9781908818713
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Cosmeceuticals are the latest additions to the health industry and have an ever-expanding market. They are considered to be a marriage between cosmetics and drugs and are defined…Read more
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Cosmeceuticals are the latest additions to the health industry and have an ever-expanding market. They are considered to be a marriage between cosmetics and drugs and are defined as preparations applied on the body that may modify the physiological functions of the skin. However, as more cosmeceuticals are being launched in the market and more types of drugs are incorporated into the formulation, the composition of cosmeceuticals is becoming more complex. Handbook of Cosmeceutical Excipients and their Safeties summarises the current evidence relating to cosmeceuticals’ side effects and highlights the important information that practitioners and consumers need to know, as well as ways to avoid the adverse effects of the excipients. Handbook of Cosmeceutical Excipients and their Safeties includes chapters covering topics such as the history of cosmeceuticals and the laws that regulate them, skin permeation, carcinogenicity as a systemic adverse effect and dermatitis as a topical adverse effect. It concludes with an appendix that gives brief information on the potency and permeability of common ingredients in cosmeceuticals. The appendix aims to highlight the maximum allowable quantity of each ingredient to ensure product safety for consumers. The appendix was prepared by compiling the ingredients of 257 products containing more than 500 compounds, collected from a hospital pharmacy in Singapore.
Focuses on the practical aspect of adverse effects from cosmeceuticals
Explains the regulatory framework of cosmeceuticals
Gives an idea of how excipients and drugs in cosmeceuticals enter the skin and methods of control
Biomedicine students, Researchers and Professionals studying cosmeceuticals and their impact on the health industry.
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
Preface
About the authors
1: History of cosmeceutics
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The rise of cosmeceutics
1.3 Impact of cosmeceutics
1.4 Conclusion
2: Regulation of cosmetics
Abstract
2.1 History
2.2 Comparative study of cosmetic legislation and regulation
2.3 Similarities in cosmetic regulation or legislation among the developed countries
2.4 Differences in cosmetic regulation or legislation among the developed countries
2.5 Conclusion
3: Skin permeation of cosmetics
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Human skin, barrier properties and challenges to absorption
3.3 The concept of flux
3.4 Mathematical modelling of flux
3.5 In vitro skin permeation testing
3.6 Skin models for permeation testing
3.7 Conclusion
4: Systemic effect of cosmeceutics – cancer
Abstract
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Methodology
4.3 Results
4.4 Discussion
4.5 Conclusion
5: Local effect of cosmeceutics – allergic contact dermatitis
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Methodology
5.3 Results
5.4 Discussion
5.5 Conclusion
6: Essential monographs
Bibliography
Index
No. of pages: 240
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: September 2, 2014
Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
Hardback ISBN: 9781907568534
eBook ISBN: 9781908818713
KH
K Y Heng
Affiliations and expertise
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
TK
T Y Kei
Affiliations and expertise
National University of Singapore
KS
K J Singh
Affiliations and expertise
National University of Singapore
PA
Poh Ai-Ling
Ai-Ling Poh is a practising senior clinical pharmacist with the Department of Pharmacy, Parkway Hospitals Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore.
Affiliations and expertise
Parkway Hospitals Singapore Pte Ltd
KL
K Lifeng
Affiliations and expertise
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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