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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gulati, Shikha
• Kumar, Sanjay
• Wadhwa, Rachit
• Lamba, Shweta
• Batra, Kanchan

Titel

Nanocosmeceuticals: Novel and Advanced Self-Care Materials

Ist Teil von

• Handbook of Consumer Nanoproducts, p.1031-1056

Ort / Verlag

Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nanotechnology has been gaining interest by the day in the field of research and development. It comes with a baggage of solutions in order to overcome certain drawbacks of the traditional technology and formulation of products. Over the years, the cosmeceutical industry, which includes cosmetics combined with pharmaceutical ingredients to exhibit therapeutic effects on the skin, has become one of the fasted growing self-care industries which comes with attractions like skin care and anti-aging solutions. The increasing popularity of nanoparticles in the cosmeceutical industry is due to their minute size and extremely high surface area-to-volume ratio. In modern times, consumers are actively investing in cosmeceuticals for appearance enhancement. So, their common problems like wrinkles, dandruff, hair damage, photoaging, hyperpigmentation, etc. are required to be addressed proficiently. In this regard, nanotechnology has been playing a very important role by providing active ingredients with therapeutic benefits. The application of nanotechnology has also increased transparency, and its fusion with Cosmeceuticals has served as an efficient replacement and as novel nanocarriers such as liposomes, nanoemulsions, solid lipid nanoparticles, nanocapsules, nanospheres, etc. for the conventional drug delivery systems. The processes of skin penetration, sustainable drug release, better stability, high entrapment, and targeting have become more and more efficient and been enhanced with the use of these modern nanocarriers. In this chapter, the role of nanotechnology in the cosmeceutical industry is discussed. The applications and fabrication of novel nanocosmeceuticals are highlighted along with their advantages over conventional products.