Dermocosmetics: why is it essential?
The success of a dermocosmetic product is never a matter of chance, but rather the result of a careful combination of factors that determine its effectiveness and appeal. While functionality and sensoriality are the primary characteristics that influence consumer perception, these elements are not always composed exclusively of functional ingredients. In many cases, dermocosmetic formulations also include adjuvants and sensorial components that, while not directly contributing to the product's function, enhance the user experience.
In this article, we'll explore how carefully selected ingredients, combined with intelligent formulation techniques, can reduce the allergenic potential of cosmetics without sacrificing their effectiveness. We'll discuss the importance of creating essential products, where each component plays a specific and functional role, while maintaining the sensorial appeal that makes a dermocosmetic product pleasant and desirable.
The components of a dermocosmetic formulation
The appeal of every dermocosmetic product It depends on several factors, partly due to subjective factors. However, two important characteristics almost always play a key role in creating appeal: the functionality and the sensoriality of the product itself.
With regard to functionality, it is easy to hypothesize that it can be expressed thanks to the presence of functional agents in the formula, but it is equally true that often, in addition to the functional agents, adjuvant components are necessary that allow or improve its expression.
A product's sensoriality, however, while partly dependent on subjective perception, is generally regulated by components that are rarely functional, but are nonetheless responsible for ensuring good sensorial characteristics. As a result, the components of a dermocosmetic formulation are often only partially functional agents: the rest are substances with important but different purposes from the actual efficacy of the product.
Reduction of allergenic potential in cosmetics
As the word " skincare " suggests, this category of products must guarantee the good condition and/or protection of the skin. It is clear that reducing components with roles other than the functionality or safety of the product, present only to create appeal, can reduce the allergenic potential of the same.
Another aspect is that, just as we better perceive the quality of a dish and its taste when it is made with quality ingredients cooked in a simple way, also for dermocosmetics it is likely that quality components formulated in a simple way can express themselves best in terms of functionality.
There is no doubt that creating the essential , limiting or eliminating components that are not useful for functional purposes, implies creating formulas with adequate functional and sensorial characteristics, but in a different way, for example by acting on the formulation techniques or choosing functional agents with sensorial or structural properties for the formula.
As often happens, what apparently seems simple to achieve is often more complicated, but at the same time certainly more rewarding. an essential dermocosmetic product , capable of creating the right appeal, is the result of a complex process and expresses through its simplicity all its technical, ethical and scientific value.
