Author: Florence Barrett-Hill

Number of Pages: 177

Publication Date: November 2009

ISBN13: 9780473124670

Cover: Paperback

The importance of the modern beauty therapist and aesthetician processing basic cosmetic chemistry knowledge is becoming increasingly evident.

Modern body and skin care cosmetics are rapidly encroaching upon the medical field with an everincreasing range of truely effective products. In addition to requiring accurate skin diagnosis skills, the skin treatment professional of the future will need to know, with a degree of accuracy,what the effects of prescribed products and treatments will be when administered to specific skin conditions.

Cosmetic Chemistry for the Skin Treatment Professional explores the ingredients most commonly found in modern cosmetic products, explains their actions and roles in the formulations, and relates them to the effect they have on specific conditions of the skin. This in addition to providing insights on how the various compounds provide beneficial outcomes, potential negative behaviours and contraindiciations to specific conditions are discussed.

"True cosmetic chemistry concerns itself not only with what is in our skin care and cosmetic products, but what chemical occurences are happening in and around the various cells within the skin and how the chemicals in the cosmetics interact with the skins own chemistry"