- Active surfactant matter
- Adsorption
- Alpha linoleic acid
- Amphophilic
- Amphoteric
- Anhydrous
- Anionic
- Aqueous
- Carotenoids
- Cationic
- Colloid
- Combining emollients series
- Comedogenic
- Comedolytic
- Comedones
- Contact angle
- COSMOS
- Coumarins
- Cushion
- Desquamation
- Drag
- ECOCERT
- Electrolytes
- Electronegativity
- Erucic acid
- Filaggrin
- Free radical scavenger
- Fresh kick
- Gadoleic acid
- Humectant
- Hurdle technology
- Hydrocolloids
- Hydrolysis
- Hydrolyze
- Hydrophilic
- Hydrophilic or hydrophile
- Hydrophobic
- Hydrophobic or hydrophobe
- Hygroscopic
- IFRA
- Interface
- Interfacial tension
- Isoelectric point
- Isomer
- Keratolytic
- Lignoceric acid
- Lipophilic
- Lipophilic or lipophile
- Lipophobic
- Lipophobic or lipophobe
- Lubricity or calling something "lubricious"
- Melt point or melting point
- NATRUE
- Natural moisturizing factor
- Naturally compliant
- Nervonic acid
- Newtonian fluid
- Non-ionic
- Non-Newtonian fluid
- Octacosenoic acid
- Parts per million (ppm)
- -phile
- -phobia
- Photoaging
- Phytosterols
- Play time
- Polar
- Polymer
- Polysaccharide
- Precipitate
- Punicic acid
- Quercetin
- Quick break
- Reactive oxygen species (ROS)
- Refractive index
- Residue
- Rheology
- Salt
- Saturated
- Shear
- Shear rate
- Shear stress
- Shear thinning fluid
- Siliphilic or siliphile
- Siliphobic or siliphobe
- Solubility
- Solute
- Solvent
- Specific gravity
- Spreading value
- Substantivity
- Suppliers around the world
- Surface tension
- Syneresis
- Terpenes
- Thixotropic
- Tight junctions
- Transepidermal water loss
- Unsaponifiables
- Unsaturated
- Upcycled
- Viscosity
- Volatile
- Wetting
- Ximenic acid
- Ximenynic acid
- Yield stress
- Yield stress point
- Zwitteronic