Author: Patrícia Maria Berardo Gonçalves Maia Campos, Maisa Oliveira de Melo & Flavio Bueno de Camargo Junior
The knowledge of the skin biology allows the identification of which active ingredients are important for the maintenance of its integrality and barrier function, essential to skin health, development of cosmetic formulations, improve the efficacy of the formulations, maintaining the skin in good conditions, improve formulation stability and sensorial properties, polysaccharide-based formulations promoted the transepidermal water loss reduction, protecting the skin barrier function