Skin care ingredients – Forms of delivery

Published: 22-May-2013 Featured companies: Provital Givaudan Active Beauty Lucas Meyer Cosmetics BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH
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A review of the ingredients that provide a delivery system for cosmetic actives to penetrate into the stratum corneum and deliver a sustained and targeted release of benefits to the skin.

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John Woodruff takes a look at the wide range of skin delivery systems and the benefits that they bring to cosmetic and personal care products


Cosmetic delivery systems take many forms. It could be said that any cosmetic product that provides a benefit to the user is a delivery system. A shampoo delivers cleansing aids; a hair conditioner delivers detangling properties; a lipstick delivers colour. There are also transdermal delivery systems that transport therapeutic drugs through the skin, but these are beyond the scope of cosmetics. Somewhere in between these two extremes are ingredients that enhance penetration into the stratum corneum or that provide sustained or targeted release of cosmetic actives, as well as systems that protect actives from degradation before delivery. These are the subject of this feature.

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Caring for people, communities and the planet has always been the driving force behind Provital. We are a customer-oriented company with a clear international outlook, focused... Givaudan Active Beauty offers an extensive portfolio of innovative cosmetic active ingredients designed to bring beauty to the world. Inspired by the beauty needs of consumers... Lucas Meyer Cosmetics develops, manufactures and markets innovative ingredients for the cosmetic and personal care industry BASF Personal Care is one of the world’s leading supplier of high-performance ingredients for the personal care industry. The company understands human needs and meets them...
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  • Istituto Recherche Applicate
  • Botaneco
  • Evonik
  • Kemin
  • Tagra Biotechnologies
  • Kobo Products Inc
  • Avon Products
  • Biogenics
  • Dow Chemical Company
  • Cargill
  • Malvern Cosmeceutics
  • Chr Hansen
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