Chemistry in cosmetics Authors Mar Jal i Mora Laboratorios Magriña, SL Keywords: Cosmetic form, active ingredients, additives, cosmetic families. Abstract Cosmetics encompass a large quantity of products which are present in our daily lives and which are necessary to maintain a good skin. It is, as well as many other disciplines, part of chemistry. The skin is a highly complex and complete organ and has an important role in the protection. Cosmetics come in many different forms, such as a cream or a lipstick, and compounds as simple as salt or as complex as collagen. Each cosmetic includes a number of ingredients in a particular balance that guarantees its stability and skin activity. Chemistry is the basis for effective and commercially enjoyable cosmetic products.keywords: Cosmetic form, active ingredients, additives, cosmetic families. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 24 (2018) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
