Testing A New Platform for Skin Care Emulsions
By: Anja Gestmann, Valerie Bonnardel and Jocelyne Milliere, National Starch Personal Care
Posted: May 6, 2003, from the September 2002 issue of Cosmetics & Toiletries.
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Article Keywords:
- skin care formulations strategies
- skin care
- platform technology
- emulsion
- platform
- hydroxypopyl
- starch phosphate
- testing
- polymer
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A whole series of emulsion platform technologies are available to skin care formulators. To gain acceptance, a novel emulsion platform technology would ideally maximize these features.
- Flexibility in use;
- Compatibility with other ingredients;
- Viability throughout a broad pH range;
- Viability throughout a wide temperature range;
- Rheology modification and co-emulsification under a wide range of formulation and product conditions;
- A pleasing skin feel.
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