Beauty Giants Jointly Uncover Skin Absorption of Some 50 Compounds via Cosmetics & Toiletries

Toxicology in Vitro will publish a study in December 2020 elucidating the partition and diffusion coefficients of some 50 compounds in intact skin and isolated skin layers and lipids.

According to the article, available online, the 7th Amendment to the Cosmetic Directive and REACH have mandated that in vitro methods be developed to assess the risk of chemicals for their potential toxicity. As such, Cosmetics Europe’s Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Elimination (ADME) Task Force is leading projects to help predict the local and systemic bioavail­ability of topically exposed compounds.

The present work, co-authored by researchers from The Procter & Gamble Company (Cincinnati), Procter and Gamble (Darmstadt), Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmétique, Beiersdorf AG and L’Oréal Research & Innovation, determined the partition and diffusion coefficients of 50 compounds in intact and isolated human skin layers. The compounds were selected for their relevance to cosmetics and included positive and negative reference chemicals.

Read more…

Published via Cosmetics & Toiletries, September 22th, 2020

Recent Posts

ZOOM#32 – Deep dive into the neurosensory claims

Dear readers, Welcome in this 32nd edition of the ZOOM, your go-to resource dedicated to…

L’Oréal sells Decléor and Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, turns focus to Indian beauty market via Personal Care Insights

L’Oréal is offloading Decléor and Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc to the French group Cospal. The two…

Pola Chem develops personalised skin models with urine-derived iPS cells via Cosmetics Design Asia

Pola Chemical Industries unveils personalised skin models created from urine-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS),…