NOVEL DELIVERY SYSTEMS: CURRENT TREND IN COSMETIC INDUSTRY

P. Tripura Sundari* and H. Anushree

ABSTRACT

Cosmetics now a days play an important role in our day to day life both in case of men and women. The use of cosmetics in our daily life make us feel confident, enhances the appearance which makes people to stay young and attractive. The usage of conventional delivery system has greatly been replaced by Novel delivery systems like liposomes, Transferosomes, Niosomes, Proniosomes, Nanoemulsions and cubosomes. The novel delivery system has the advantages of releasing the active ingredient to specific tissues in body for prolonged duration with controlled release which inturn reduces the amount as well as the frequency of the application. Adapting these techniques in the formulation of cosmetics, companies are coming up with innovative formulations. Thus this has resulted in economic Up liftment of cosmetic industry around the world. These Novel delivery techniques in cosmetics possess enormous potential as future generation effective carrier systems. In the present review, we will discuss about the genesis of innovative cosmetic preparations.

Keywords: Novel delivery, cosmetics, Liposomes, etc.