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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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beauty cream
beauty: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
beta hydroxy
bilayer
biological
biophysical
biotechnology
blackheads: a skin problem related to plugged pores; considered an acne precursor.
blemish: a non-medicinal term to define skin problems that are not diseases and thus their treatment is not a medicine and can be performed with products categorized as cosmetics.
body builder
body
bodybuilder
bodycare: synonymous with skin care; in some cases used to describe a larger category of which skin care is a subcategory.
botanical

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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.