Skin Analysis
Skin type that should be treated by reintroducing hydration and repairing the skin barrier to reduce the possibility of TEWL.
What is dehydrated skin?
These ingredients in products do the actual work of cleansing, normalizing, moisturizing, or otherwise treating the skin.
What are Performance Ingredience?
These ingredients make up the majority of a product and allow the product to spread, give them body and texture, and give them a specific form such a cream, lotion or gel.
What are Functional Ingredients?
Highly concentrated plant oils with properties that can have various effects on the skin.
What are Essential Oils?
AHA's, BHA's, Licorice root, green tea extract, vitamin C, and hydroquinone are commonly used ingredients that are used in bleaching the skin.
What are Lighteners and Brighteners?
This can be done to determine a client's skin type and help the esthetician determine an appropriate treatment plan for their skin.
What are Skin Analysis and Consultations.
Product grown without the use of pesticides or chemicals?
Organic Product
The Cosmetic Act of 1938 defined by the FDA as articles that are intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or alternating appearance.
What are Cosmetics?
These color agents are insoluble pigments made by combining a dye with an inorganic material and are commonly used in colorful cosmetics.
What are Lakes?
A natural form of Vitamin A that stimulates cell repair and helps to normalize skin cells by generating new cells.
What is Retinol?
What type of skin must be treated with proper oil-water balance and usually can be determined by larger pores in the T-zone?
What is combonation skin?
This moisturizing technique using emollients to lie on top of the skin and prevent dehydration by trapping water and decreasing trans epidermal water loss.
What is Occlusion?
oils, fatty acids, fatty alcohols, fatty esters, and silicones are all examples of what?
emollients
Performance ingredients such as chamomile, licorice, azulene and aloe heal the skin.
What are Healing agents?
This enzyme converts tyrosine, an amino acid, into melanin.
What is Tyrosinase?
This skin condition can result from hormones, trauma, extractions, sun-damage, or exfoliation.
What is Hyperpigmentation?
These performance ingredients are an official use in the drug industry to indicate ingredients that chemically cause physiological changes.
What are Active ingredients?
A products tendency to cause or worsen a buildup of blackheads, leading to the development of a comedome is..?
What is Comedogenicity?
These two mild acids are naturally occurring and are used as chemical exfoliants.
What are AHA's (Alpha hydroxy acids), and BHA's (Beta hydroxy acids)?
Glycopolypeptides are another yeast derivative and have been found to enhance immune response, cellular metabolism, which boots oxygen uptake into a cell.
What are Glycoproteins?
These can be caused by both internal and external factors and are unique to each individual.
What are Skin Conditions?
These cosmetic ingredients reduce the surface tension between the skin and product, and increase the spreadability of cosmetic products.
What are Surfactants?
What type of ingredient is a Buffer such as Sodium bicarbonate?
What is a pH adjuster?
Papain, bromelain, and pancreatin are exfoliating ingredients use to dissolve keratin proteins on the surface of the skin to make it softer, soother, and help maintain hydration level of the epidermis.
What are Enzymes?
These chains of amino acids help again skin by improving tissue repair and skin function such as cell and fibroblast activity.
What are Peptides?
This skin classification system evaluates photo-damage based on wrinkling categorized by age.
What is the Glogau Scale?
These fatty acids have been exposed to alcohols and are not drying, and have a wax-like consistency and are used as emollients or spreading agents.
What are Fatty Alcohols?
What is an ingredients that boosts the efficacy of a preservative for example: Disodium EDTA (ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic-acid)?
What is a Chelating Agent?
These 3 Hydrators, and Moisturizers attract water to the skin's surface and lock water on the skin, reducing hydration.
What are Hydrators, Humectants and Hydrophilic agents?
Octinoxate, Octisalate and Oxybezone are examples of what?
What are Chemical Sunscreens?