Milady's Skin Care and Cosmetic Ingredients Dictionary

by Natalia Michalun

Milady's Skin Care and Cosmetic Ingredients Dictionary, third edition, is a multi-purpose resource for cosmetic professionals and consumers alike. Part one puts cosmetics in the context of skin care. It provides an overview of skin physiology. In order to understand how and why a product works it is essential to understand how the skin works. It gives an overview of the complexity of cosmetic chemistry particularly with respect to product penetration, and highlights the current challenges facing cosmetic formulators. In addition, it offers comprehensive discussion of the various skin types and conditions in order to help professionals in their product selection. Lastly, it defines common cosmetic industry terminology used by cosmetic manufacturers, professional estheticians, marketers and the media. The second part is dedicated to helping cosmetic users identify the function and purpose of specific ingredients. It is an alphabetical dictionary that lists and describes not only active principles but all other categories of ingredients that comprise a skin care cosmetic. As scientific knowledge of skin physiology and cosmetic chemistry advances, so do cosmetic products. This volume puts everything in context in an easy to read, easy to understand, user-friendly format.

336 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1994

Reviews

[Irish]

This book is okay..
I enjoyed the appendix with botanical Latin names. However, I was disappointed at how they rarely mentioned side effects of ingredients like phototoxins/ photosensitizers,cytotoxins,pro-oxidants, etc. They mentioned studys sometimes by some definitions but never cited it. I also felt like there were a lot of ingredients they left out too like say: rayon, bimaprost, isopropyl cloprostenate,saffron,musk ambrette and others.
I am not done reading this yet,so I'll update my review soon,but for now I recommend another cosmetic dictionary by Ruth Winters.