Cosmetotheque:Ingredients

Silicon is never used as a metal in cosmetic products, but always in the form of derivatives combining different types of elements, of which oxygen is...

Trying to rewrite the history of anti-aging skin care products is like trying to rewrite the history of beauty in general. This is strongly associated...

In this contribution, Régine Frick looks at Seppic's current offer based on lipoamino acid technology. A little forgotten these last decades, this one...

In this second part, we will discuss the evidence of efficacy of this ingredient, the formulation elements, as well as a review of the state of the ar...

In 1993, with the creation of the European Institute of Cell Biology (now Lucas Meyer Cosmetics), several scientific data were going to allow the elab...

Silicon is a chemical element of the crystallogen family, Si symbol and atomic number 14. It is the most abundant element in the earth's crust after o...

We are at the end of the 80s, the problem of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) continues to make the news in food and is beginning to be a certain su...

This could be the reaction of a Marketing Manager of an"anti-ageing" range when the formulation laboratory presents the latest proposal of innovative ...

Lipopeptides are structures containing lipids chemically associated with proteins. They were first identified in 1866 by Hoppe Seyler, a German chemis...

Nitrocellulose has a special place in the world of nail polish. Given its importance, but also its characteristics, it seemed useful to us to make a p...

A peptide is a linear chain of amino acids (AA); a protein is also a linear chain of amino acids, but it is a much longer chain. The boundary between ...

In addition to the traditional uses of boron-derived compounds, new substances have gained renewed interest in recent years in the formulation of many...