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Cosmetics are, more than ever, at the crossroads of sciences. Research in cosmetics benefits from the most modern methods: DNA chips, electronic microscopes, high-resolution chromatographers, image analysis technologies, etc. Biology allows scientists to gain understanding of the skin, what it lacks and needs, what its reactions and its ethnic characteristics are, etc.

New models of reconstructed skin, ever more complex, allow the study of the innocuousness and efficacy of the products. The metabolic engineering of plants allows scientists to discover ever more efficient new extracts.

Chemistry evolves and green chemistry is a source of innovations. Physicochemistry and galenics [1] give rise to products with more effective surface properties, long lasting products, tensors, compacted powders with motifs, etc.

Thanks to the development of the science of materials, along with the study of their surface properties and their associations, effectiveness and properties are optimized to provide new texture, new effectiveness or new colored visual effects.

New methods allying physical measurements, optical measurements and dosages of biological markers make it possible to measure the effectiveness of care and makeup products.

Research opens to human sciences, art and other subjects to understand better the perception of products and their effects. Neurobiology, psychology and the science of emotions provide a new source of inspiration to creation.

Today more than ever, research in cosmetics intermingles knowledge and know-how; it has become a multidisciplinary research at the service of individual beauty.

×Galénique : science de la mise en forme des médicaments, par extension science de la formulation.