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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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S
salicylic acid
scalp
sensitive skin: skin that cannot tolerate many skin care products. It can get irritated, red, swollen and may sometime crack. Sensitivity is not the same as allergy. For more information, please see our User's Guide.
serum: highly concentrated skin care cream.
shopping
skin
skin care: a combination of ingredients in the form of a liquid or paste that is applied to the skin for the purpose of benefitting it. Though cosmetic type skin care products are not drugs, some topical drugs carry skin care benefits.
skin cream
skincare: same as “skin care” but sometimes spelled this way.
skin-care: same as “skin care” but sometimes spelled this way.
sport
synergal
synergistic ingredients
synergistic

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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.