Apply Topically: A Practical Guide to Formulating Topical Applications By Nava Dayan, PhD

The Ultimate Handbook on Topical Product Development

• Addresses Day-to-Day Formulating Challenges
• Offers Valuable “Tips” and Troubleshooting Issues
• Discover Advances in Formulation and Development, Raw Materials and Active Ingredients, Compound Testing, and Clinical Assessment
• Focused Content on Properties

The conceptualization and formulation of skin care products intended for topical use is a multifaceted and evolving area of science. Formulators must account for myriad skin types, as well as a very temperamental retail market. This book offers practical approach to the formulation chemist’s day-to-day endeavors by: addressing the innumerable challenges facing the chemist both in design and at bench, such as formulating with/for specific properties; offering valuable “tips” to troubleshooting issues regarding ingredient selection and interaction, regulatory concerns that must be addressed early in development, and the extrapolation of preservative systems; exploring the advantages and limitations of raw materials; addressing scale-up and pilot production process and concerns; and much more.

Dr. Dayan, whose history in the skin care industry includes more than 150 publication credits and an In-cosmetics Gold Award for product innovation, has endeavored to bring you the ultimate handbook on topical product development. This book includes exclusive expert examination and reportage from industry icons such as Roger L. McMullen, Paul Thau, Hemi Nae, Ada Polla, Howard Epstein, Joseph Albanese, Mark Chandler, Steve Herman, Gary Kelm, Patricia Aikens, and Sam Shefer, along with many others.

Explore and examine the following Chapter Sections:

• Preliminary Considerations and Selection of Raw Materials
• Formulation, Processing and Production Techniques
• Testing and Measurements Methods
• Sensory and Elegancy
• Stability and Preservation
• Color Cosmetics
• Sunscreens