Product Description

This text defines what constitutes cosmeceuticals and discusses various classes of products, from anti-ageing skin care and repair, anti-acne, and hair-growth compounds to agents for treating skin infections, rashes and irritations. It includes a chapter by Dr Albert Kligman, Emeritus Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, who coined the term cosmeceuticals.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1411896 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-09
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 369 pages

Review
..."contributes a great deal on 'cosmeceuticals'." ---Chemical Business, 2000 "It is...important that the whole medical and the chemical class that deals with topic products, both drug and cosmetic, has this book in the personal library. This easily readable book will for sure be printed over and over." ---Journal of Applied Cosmetology, 2001

Customer Reviews

First serious review of a new interdisplinary science
The topic of cosmeceuticals raises an eyebrow in scientific communities -- until now. It is being extensively realised by the pharmaceutical industry that it can profitably enter the interdisplinary area between cosmetics and pharmaceuticals for healthy returns, and much attention is being paid at the highest level -- business and regulatory -- to the growing marriage of two sciences.

Whilst a gap remains for a basic review of "what are cosmeceuticals?" and "how can we work with them" written for the practising scientist and development scientist, this fills a space with general overviews to help bridge the divide.