The Ultimate Handbook on Topical Product Development. Addresses Day-to-Day Formulating Challenges, Offers Valuable Tips and Troubleshooting Issues, Discover Advances in Formulation and Development, Raw Materials and Active Ingredients, Compound Testing, and Clinical Assessment, Focused Content on Properties. The conceptualization and formulation of skin care products intended for topical use is a multifaceted and evolving area of science. Formulators must account for myriad skin types, as well as a very temperamental retail market. This book offers practical approach to the formulation chemist?s day-to-day endeavors by : Addressing the innumerable challenges facing the chemist both in design and at bench, such as formulating with/for specific properties, offering valuable tips to troubleshooting issues regarding ingredient selection and interaction, regulatory concerns that must be addressed early in development, and the extrapolation of preservative systems, exploring the advantages and limitations of raw materials, addressing scale-up and pilot production process and concerns and much more.