Skin Care and Aging scientifically examines antiaging from a functional, genomic, and physiologic standpoint while presenting cosmeceutical, antioxidant and moisturization topical agents and nutricosmetic oral agents to achieve the one goal desired.

The book looks at the behavior of aging skin and how this can be modified with cosmeceuticals, antioxidants, moisturizers and nutritional supplements. It presents the best techniques and ingredients to achieve desired antiaging effects. The industry's top researchers present studies of specific active ingredients that impact the skin's cell defenses and other mechanisms.

Topics include:

• Skin Pigmentation
• Aging Skin
• Genomics and Aging Skin
• Novel Ingredients
• Antioxidants and Skin Care
• Skin Moisturization
• Nutricosmetics and Skin Health

Contents

Part I: Skin Pigmentation

1. A Direct Connection to Melanocytes
2. Antiaging in a Different Light: Assessing How Chromophores color Perception
3. Grapefruit Extract Cream: Effects on Melanin and Skin
4. Lightening, Boosting and Protecting with Colorless Carotenoids

Part II: Looking for Youth in Skin Aging

Aging Skin

5. Innovations in Dermatology: Rethinking the Aging Face
6. Slowing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aging: A Dual Approach
7. Sirtuins: A breakthrough in Antiaging Research
8. Pep Talk: slowing Down Aging
9. Drawing the Line on Wrinkles
10. Modeling UVB-induced Formation of Photoproducts in Human Keratinocytes

Genomics and Aging Skin

11. Mutations in Mitochondrial DNA as Principal Aging Factor
12. Mitochondrial Nourishment and Protection for Antiaging Effects
13. Its Never Too Late: DNA Repair and Photoaging
14. Understanding Extracellular Paroteolytic Enzymes
15. RNA Interference and Therapeutic Applications
16. Stimulating Stem Cells for Younger Skin

The Behavior of Aging Skin

17. Cutaneous Blood Flow in Aging Skin
18. Cutaneous Biochemistry in Aging Skin
19. Thickness of Aging Skin
20. Stimulation of Dermal and Epidermal Metabolism: An Approach to Antiaging
21. In vitro Approaches to Antiaging Testing

Part III: Novel Cosmeceutical Ingredients

22. Tetrapeptide Targets Epidermal Cohesion
23. Chitin Nanofibrils: A Natural Compound for Innovative Cosmeceuticals
24. Biomimetic Tripeptides for Improved Dermal Transport
25. Strategies of Antiaging Actives in Sunscreen Products
26. Antiaging Effects of a Skin Repair Active Principle
27. Wrinkle Reduction by Stimulation fo the Skin's Mechanical Resistance
28. Peptides in the Pipeline for Antiaging
29. An Herbal Blend for Antiaging Effects: TCM in Personal Care
30. An ECM-derived Tetrapeptide to Counterbalance ECM Degeneration

Part IV: Antioxidants and Skin Care

31. Understanding Reactive Oxygen Species
32. Measuring Reactive Oxygen Species in Skin with Fluorescence Microscopy
33. Using Photochemiluminescence to Quantify the Antioxidative Capacity of topicals
34. Protecting the Genome of Skin Celols from Oxidative Stress and Photoaging
35. From the Sea: Algal Extracts for Skin Homeostasis
36. Measuring the Antioxidant Potential of an Acai Extract
37. Protecting Skin from UV Oxidative Stress with a New (Cys-Gly)₂ Dimer Peptide

Part V: Skin Moisturization

38. An Aquaporin-inspired Lipid Concentrate for Mature Skin
39. Watering Holes in the Stratum Corneum
40. Treating Wrinkles with Dimethylaminoethanol, Retinol and Mineral Salts
41. Watermelon Survival Strategies for Skin DNA Protection
42. γ-Poly Glutamic Acid

Part VI: Nutricosmetics and Skin Health

43. Nutricosmetics: Feeding the Skin
44. Macroalgae in Nutricosmetics
45. Recent Advances in Slimming Treatments
46. Macroalgal Fucoidan Extracts: A New Opportunity for Marine Cosmetics
47. Balancing Skin's Microflora with Probiotics

Index

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