To
help inform our customers, we have created this glossary of terms
related to our products and projects; we hope it will enable us all
to communicate clearly. The information provided here is intended to
facilitate discussion, not to serve as medical or legal advice. Current
glossary entries are:
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C
cancer
skincare: very gentle skin care that may be tolerated
by people with very sensitive skin such as cancer patients after chemotherapy
or irradiation.
cancer: a general title for
many diseases with different triggers and different characteristics and
danger levels, most with a
common attribute relating to uncontrolled proliferation of cells.
cellular
chemical
chromatone
complex:
an
active molecule brought within the proximity of a carrier molecule so that
they remain together under the conditions of the media in which they are
contained.
cosmeceutical: a term widely used in the
skin care industry but not recognized by regulatory institutions such
as the US Food and Drug Administration.
cosmetics: an industrial
category regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Unlike drugs, cosmetic products cannot claim medicinal virtue and do
not require approval prior to the
marketing phase.
cream
custom manufacturing: manufacturing
a skin care formula requested by another party, or incorporation of an
ingredient or ingredients requested by a third party into a skin care
formula, or solving formulation or manufacturing problems a third party
may have with a formula.
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This
glossary is always under construction. If you'd like to suggest additional
terms to be discussed here, please
contact us.
This page was updated September 5, 2004 by scribionics. |
