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Informationen zum Autor Ai-Ling Poh is a practising senior clinical pharmacist with the Department of Pharmacy, Parkway Hospitals Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore. Handbook of cosmeceutical excipients 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. Zusammenfassung Handbook of cosmeceutical excipients 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. History and opportunities: Historical background of cosmeceuticals and its impact in current world; Concept of excipient safety: Who coined the term?; How big is the industry?; How many new products per year?; Law: Regulation in US and Role of US FDA in cosmeceuticals; Regulation in Europe; Regulation in ASEAN; A comparison of their differences; Skin permeation: Overview of the concept of flux; Translation of animal to human dose; Calculating of limits of excipients to prevent related adverse effects; Systemic effect: Cancer: Impact of carcinogenicity of excipients; Evidences available in current literature; Mechanism of carcinogenicity; Ways to prevent carcinogenicity of excipients. Local effect: Dermatitis: Impact of dermatitis of excipients; Evidences available in current literature; Mechanism of dermatitis; Prevention; Appendix: Brief description of each excipient.
List of contents
1: History of cosmeceutics2: Regulation of cosmetics3: Skin permeation of cosmetics4: Systemic effect of cosmeceutics - cancer5: Local effect of cosmeceutics - allergic contact dermatitis6: Essential monographs
Report
"...formulation scientists working in the area of skincare (medical or otherwise), may find the monograph to be a useful reference." --The Pharmaceutical Journal
