Author: Panagoula Pavlou ,Angeliki Siamidi ,Athanasia Varvaresou and Marilena Vlachou
Skin Care Formulations, Skin Moisturizing Agents, skin care products interact with health and beauty products for the skin, cosmetic active ingredients and targeted application, novel formulations, facilitating skin permeation and improving stability, novel nanotechnology-based lipid systems (liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, etc.) to deliver moisturizing cosmetic actives and improve product efficacy, permeable outer layer of the epidermis, the stratum corneum (SC), protects the body from dehydration and other environmental stresses, drug penetration through the SC: the intracellular, the shunt (via sweat glands and hair follicles), and the intercellular pathway, corneocytes and intercellular lipid layers, topical formulations, transdermal delivery systems, penetration of active ingredients through the skin, modern skin care formulations, maintain optimal moisture levels in the skin, Moisturizers are a very important class of cosmetics, xeroderma, preventing the appearance of dryness and delaying premature skin aging, addition of humectants (glycerol, sorbitol, sodium hyaluronate with low MW, elements of natural hydration factors, film-forming/occlusive agents or emollients [hydrocarbons (petrolatum, paraffin oil, perhydrosqualene), silicone oils, animal or vegetable oils, fatty alcohols, especially stearyl and cetyl, waxes (from shea, bees), occlusive moisturizers, ceramides, Phytobioactive compounds (catechins, gallic acids, epicatechins, curcumin, hy-droxylbenzoic acid and cinnamic acid, quercetin, ascorbic acid, luteolin, alpha- and beta-carotene, complex polysaccharides, and fatty acids), dermatocosmetic effects, phytobioactive substances, phytobased nano-moisturizing systems, Silicones can serve as transport vesicles for active ingredients through the skin by physical association, skin care ingredients
