- What term refers to cosmetics that contain ingredients that help improve the skin instead of temporarily affecting the way it looks or feels?
- _____ refers to agricultural products that have been produced, handled, and processed under the guidelines of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Program (NOP).
- What are the key tools for preventing skin damage and extrinsic aging?
- The broad-based term encompassing the techniques, materials, and instruments that function at the nanometer scale is known as _____.
- What do moisturizers typically help skin to do?
- Retinoids affect many intercellular processes, including cell growth and differentiation, and they help repair photodamage.
- Choose the inorganic chemicals found in sunscreen
- Broad spectrum SPF indicates that it provides protection against which of the following?
- Retinol is milder than retinal, and retinal is milder than retinyl palmitate and retinyl acetate which are milder than retinoic acid.
- Used at the right concentration, AHAs appear to be less irritating than BHAs because of their anti-inflammatory properties.
- Name the ingredient whose function is to repair the bilipid barrier.
- What is NOT one of the contraindications for using AHAs?
- Salicylic acid is the most commonly used BHA in cosmetic applications.
- Select the properties that apply to organic chemicals found in sunscreen.
- Choose the body components that free radicals negatively affect
- Retinoids are the most effective ingredients for improving the signs of skin aging.
- The two main mechanisms of AHAs are skin moisturization and stratum corneum exfoliation.
- Partial neutralization allows the formulator to design products that deliver partial concentrations of acid to the skin without significantly increasing irritation potential.
- Mandelic acid is targeted for normal, healthy skin, which is seen in so-called organic AHA peels or formulations.
- Esterfication is a condensation reaction of an alcohol and an acid to yield an ester and water.