Cosmetotheque:Products

The water-based anti-ageing perfume: an innovative product

The use of odoriferous molecules in skin care is not a very recent process. Indeed, for a very long time, the use of this type of substance has been common, both in hygiene products and in facial care. What our elders called essences have long made it possible to produce this type of product. This practice has gradually disappeared in favour of much better defined targeted molecules, known as active ingredients, which are mainly aimed at biological targets of the skin. However, some have kept in...

Spotlight on nails!

We have seen recently the nail that knows how to record your solar level exposure. Now, it’s a new nail enamel sensitive to light. And for once, something is happening in the nail enamel world!

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Shaving through products and tools: Part 1

After having known many fashions and tendencies and while the art of the beard returned to the taste of the day, we very often forgot certain objects ...

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Make-up removal is an essential act in beauty routines. There are many types of products on the market that perform this function effectively. Today, ...

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

History of sun protection products, cosmetics of recent appearance

The history of sun protection products is not lacking in spice. These products, which were placed on the market without yet existing methods for evalu...

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

The cold cream of the 3rd millennium

Cold cream has been and remains one of the monuments of cosmetics. This product that had to be kept cold, or that was cold to apply, or both, has been...

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Nail polish with water&nbsp: where are we&nbsp?

In the great saga of nail polish, one question has come up repeatedly for many years, that of water-based varnishes. Long reserved for children, a mar...

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Gel varnishes first appeared in the United States in the 1980s, but met with limited success. At the time, lamp and gel manufacturers themselves had n...

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Médiesthétique or Médi-Cosmétique®

You have heard about it, or you will hear about it, because this new approach to beauty will continue to develop and, therefore, needs to be defined. ...

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Eye contour make-up removal

The cleansing of the eye contour area is often approached through specific products, taking into account both the particularity of this area character...

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Waterproof mascara

Here we will approach waterproof mascara through two contributions. We owe the first to a man of the art, Christophe Delas, who directs the R&D ac...

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Up date Varnish: technological review of nail varnish - Color and texture

Many women now consider nail polish an integral part of their makeup routine. In some cases, it is part of their overall appearance, in others, it is ...

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Automatic mascara: part 1, Water-based

The so-called automatic mascara, which is not automatic in the sense that it does nothing on its own, essentially has the character of an automatic ma...

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The Mascara : the story

The first traces of the use of mascara date back to ancient Egypt, around 3000 BC. Egyptian women used a"kohl" made of a mixture of animal fat, ant...