The Skin Care Ingredient Handbook
As a holistic nurse and clinical aromatherapist I need current, reliable and science-based information to reference on a regular basis for my consulting work and Linda Walker s The Skin Care Ingredient Handbook is an excellent resource I have added to my library. As an author I also appreciate her completeness and easy-to-reference entries of hundreds of constituents. I was pleasantly surprised she has taken the effort and foresight to include circadian rhythms and a great discussion on natural versus synthetic materials. This is a book that will replace several others I have come to rely on. --Valerie Cooksley, RN, OCN, FAAIM, CERT President, Flora MedicaWalker, who owns a manufacturing company of professional skin care products, provides estheticians, skin care professionals, and others with a guide to skin care ingredients. She outlines the 14 key functions in skin cells that active ingredients are designed to help; concepts such as natural, organic, green, sustainable, and synthetic; definitions of functional ingredients and technologies; and new trends in the industry. She then presents a glossary of about 1,500 common ingredients, with common and International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients names, descriptions, common uses, and categories for each, followed by appendices of term definitions, a name table, and labeling regulations. --Eithne O'Leyne Annotation © Book News Inc., Portland,