Flo Barrett - Cosmetic Chemistry Book
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Cosmetic chemistry for the Skin Treatment Professional is not another dictionary of cosmetic ingredients but an informative guide to understanding cosmetic chemistry from the viewpoint of an aesthetician and beauty therapist.
The importance of the modern beauty therapist and aesthetician possessing basic cosmetic chemistry knowledge is becoming increasingly evident with modern body and skin care cosmetics rapidly encroaching upon the medical field with an ever-increasing range of truly effective products.
In addition to requiring accurate skin diagnosis skills, the skin treatment professional of the future will need to know, with a degree of accuracy, what the effects of prescribed products and treatments will be when administered to specific skin conditions. Cosmetic Chemistry for the Skin Treatment Professional explores the ingredients most commonly found in modern cosmetic products, explains their actions and roles in the formulations, and relates them to the effect they may have on specific conditions of the skin.
This, in addition to providing insights on how the various compounds provide beneficial outcomes, potential negative behaviours and contraindications to specific conditions are discussed.
In the first chapter, Florence explains the basics of cosmetic formulations and their component functions and properties in therapist's terms. Along the way, Florence shares the skill of how understanding product labels and evaluating likely product performance and contraindications from reading the label rather than believing marketing hype. Florence also explores the linking skin structure and function to ingredient choice for better treatment results and client satisfaction.
She does this by approaching the major skin conditions therapists see on a daily basis and applying the knowledge of what is happening to the skin's cells to the types of ingredients that will provide the best therapeutic effect.
189 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2009
