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Botanicals and Naturals for Skin Care

Course Overview

What are natural products? Why do we want to formulate with them? This course provides an overview of the current use of botanical and natural ingredients in the personal care industry. The course will include a brief history of the use of botanicals, relevant plant classifications, extraction methods, chemical compositions and formulation considerations, current regulatory frameworks, and selected hot topics in the market.

Who Should Attend

Formulators, researchers and marketers who want to learn more about natural products used in natural personal care products with a focus on botanicals.

Course Outline

  • Natural Products - Molecules of Nature - Phytochemistry
    • Primary Metabolites - Proteins, Lipids, Carbohydrates
    • Secondary Metabolites - Chemical Families of Interest 

  • Plant Classification and Families of Interest for Personal Care
  • Economic Botany - A Short History of Botanicals, Naturals  & Botanical Extraction Methods
  • Ethnobotany - Multicultural Knowledge on Plant Utilization including Examples from Contemporary Indigenous Peoples and Ayurvedic Skincare
  • Personal Care Pharmacognosy - Active Botanicals and Skin Care Pharmacology
  • Patents and IP issues – Selected US and International Patents, Traditional Knowledge Ownership
  • Regulatory Issues 
  • Current Botanicals and Phytochemicals of Interest 
  • Formulating for Optimal Skin Active Delivery - Considerations and Selected Finished Products
  • Major Suppliers in the Naturals space
  • Selected Hot Topics such as CBD and ISO 16128

Instructor: Arthur Georgalas

Format: Live Online

Dates: 

  • Wednesday, October 30, 2024  (11:00am - 2:30pm ET)
  • Thursday, October 31, 2024  (11:00am - 2:30pm ET)

Note: in addition to the live online instruction, Certificate in Skin Care participants who select this course will also receive a PDF copy of the course slides, as well as access to course replay recordings from the day after the live online instruction occurs through the end of the certificate program.

If also applying for SCC membership, please allow up to five business days for application processing. Member pricing will not be in effect for Certificate Program enrollment until after the membership application is approved. 

About the instructor


Arthur Georgalas

ARTHUR GEORGALAS has conducted and directed product formulation and applied research in cosmetics, toiletries, skin, sun and hair care at Revlon, Shulton, Charles of the Ritz, DowBrands/ LaMaur and at TRI-K Industries, Inc. in Northvale, New Jersey, U.S. as Director of Research and Development Art has recently established GEORGALAS ENDEAVORS LLC to bring this experience and expertise to clients with personal care projects..  He has also contributed articles to various trade journals and the book Sunscreens 2nd ed., Marcel Dekker publishers.  He contributes to active Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC), New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists (NYSCC), and International Federation of Society of Cosmetic Chemists (IFSCC) committees and has presented at many technical and trade conferences.  A graduate of CCNY (City College of New York), he also completed the Masters Program (M.S. degree) in Pharmaceutics, specialty in Cosmetic Science at the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences of LIU (Long Island University).  As an adjunct professor, Art instructs classes in Skincare, Product Development, and Applied Colloid Chemistry at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Art was the 2021 Chair of the SCC's Committee on Scientific Affairs.