Highlights uses of delivery systems in cosmetics, analyzing new approaches for obtaining sophisticated cosmetic products and examining the most common methods for enhancing the skin's penetration properties. Contains sections on skin and cosmetic vehicles, evaluation of cosmetic products, emulsions and surfactant association structures, vesicular and molecular systems, and particulate systems, along with numerous tables, equations, and b&w drawings, photos, and micrographs. Of interest to cosmetic chemists and technologists, research and development personnel, pharmaceutical formulation and fragrance chemists, dermatologists, and skin physiologists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
