a
- Active surfactant matter
- Adsorption
- Alpha linoleic acid
- Amphophilic
- Amphoteric
- Anhydrous
- Anionic
- Aqueous
c
- Carotenoids
- Catechins
- Cationic
- Colloid
- Combining emollients series
- Comedogenic
- Comedolytic
- Comedones
- Contact angle
- COSMOS
- Coumarins
- Cushion
d
- Desquamation
- Drag
e
- ECOCERT
- Electrolytes
- Electronegativity
- Emulsion types
- Erucic acid
f
- Filaggrin
- Free radical scavenger
- Fresh kick
g
- Gadoleic acid
h
- HLB system
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- Humectant
- Hurdle technology
- Hydrocolloids
- Hydrolysis
- Hydrolyze
- Hydrophilic
- Hydrophilic or hydrophile
- Hydrophobic
- Hydrophobic or hydrophobe
- Hygroscopic
i
- IFRA
- Interface
- Interfacial tension
- Isoelectric point
- Isomer
k
- Keratolytic
l
- Lamellar gel networks
- Lignoceric acid
- Lipophilic
- Lipophilic or lipophile
- Lipophobic
- Lipophobic or lipophobe
- Liquid crystal
- Lubricity or calling something "lubricious"
- Luteolin
m
- Melt point or melting point
n
- NATRUE
- Natural moisturizing factor
- Naturally compliant
- Nervonic acid
- Newtonian fluid
- Non-ionic
- Non-Newtonian fluid
o
- Octacosenoic acid
- Oxidative stability index
p
- Parts per million (ppm)
- -phile
- -phobia
- Photoaging
- Phytosterols
- Play time
- Polar
- Polymer
- Polyphenols
- Polysaccharide
- Polysaccharides
- Precipitate
- Punicic acid
q
- Quercetin
- Quick break
r
- Reactive oxygen species (ROS)
- Refractive index
- Residue
- Rheology
- Rutin
ß
- ß-sitosterol
s
- 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
t
- Tannins
- Terpenes
- Thixotropic
- Tight junctions
- Transepidermal water loss
u
- Unsaponifiables
- Unsaturated
- Upcycled
v
- Viscosity
- Volatile
w
- Wetting
x
- Ximenic acid
- Ximenynic acid
y
- Yield stress
- Yield stress point
z
- Zwitteronic
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