Recent progress and development on emulsifiers in skin cosmetic applications

摘要

In our daily lives, skin-care cosmetics play important roles in regulating the skin condition and they are required to have various functions, such as moisturizing effect, emollient effect, or anti-aging effect, etc. These demands have led the developments of new emulsifiers (or emulsification techniques) which should be available to make the modern skin care formulations. In this summary, we describe the recent results of innovations, including (1) the utilization of self-organization property of surfactants (2) the utilization of synergism of surfactants combination system (3) polyglycerine fattyacid esters (4) polymeric emulsifiers and (5) surfactants based on natural resources as the new emulsifiers and emulsification techniques.