While consumers are demanding products that are safe, natural and environmentally friendly, protection from the effects on skin of an unfriendly environment and the ravages of time is high on their list of benefits. Of course, they want products to deliver as promised. Such is the climate for new raw material introductions.
New ingredients are expensive to develop, manufacture and develop.
Safety testing, claim substantiation, patent filing and meeting government regulations add significantly to the cost and extend time to market. Technologies borrowed from other industries are being successfully adapted to the manufacture of cosmetics and personal care products. Keeping up with all the new ingredient introductions can be a challenge, but a number of resources exist to help you stay informed. Among the numerous pathways and mechanisms involved in the complex phenomenon of aging, recent findings have designated oxidative processes as a major extrinsic cause. Our skin is exposed daily to environmental stresses such as pollutants or UVB radiation that induce a number of oxidative insults primarily to be biological membranes of skin cells.