The interest in sustainable products has increased along the years, since the choice of products, packaging and production processes have a great impact on the environment. These products are classified by regulatory ...

Faced with the growing scenario of the consumer market, which have been looking for composed of ingredients that are less harmful to humans and the environment, the research on natural products has become increasingly ...

Focusing on the therapeutic and cosmetic potentials of the thermal water, several processes were developed to achieve a raw material known as fango which presents in its constitution water, clay and organic soil. This ...

The importance of this study is based on the need to obtain simple and efficient in vitro models to predict the in vivo toxicity of cosmetics, aiming not to use animals as experimental model. Here, we proposed the use of ...

Collagen is a fibrillar protein that conforms the conjunctive and connective tissues in the human body, essentially skin, joints, and bones. This molecule is one of the most abundant in many of the living organisms due to ...

Este trabalho analisou o panorama atual do mercado nacional de shampoos naturais e orgânicos. Identificou-se 29 marcas brasileiras de cosméticos que produzem e comercializam um total de 112 shampoos com apelo ao natural ...

The cocoa fruit (Theobroma cacao) is known worldwide for its richness in fatty acids and phenolic compounds, with antioxidant power, and it is known to be composed of more than 50% medium-chain fatty acids, making it a raw ...

Protein hydrolysates have been used as active principles in cosmetic products conferring different properties to the final formulations, which are mostly controlled by the peptide size and its amino acid sequence. In this ...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the biochemical alterations in hydration and skin proteins, which are associated with the skin aging process, caused by cosmetic use. Background data: Many techniques have been ...