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Cosmetics lab: Innovation in formulation
14 Jul 2020There has been a major movement towards microencapsulation in the cosmetics industry. The technique, which involves packaging ingredients into microcapsules, has been a rising trend. But is the technique here to stay or will its fame slowly fade away?
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Evaporators and Freeze DryersCentrifugal evaporation is used for solvent removal from a sample. This is a useful technique for sample concentration or sample drying. Many centrifugal evaporators are modular with a central vacuum pump for generating low pressure. Useful features of evaporators or vacuum ovens include minimal solvent bumping, solvent resistance, computer control, temperature regulation and benchtop design.CosmeticsFormulationFormulation is the process of combining active pharmaceutical ingredients with excipients to produce a drug which is both stable and active.