The right delivery system takes key ingredients where they need to be so they can be the most beneficial to the skin.
By Christine Esposito Associate Editor
Imagine that you are a manufacturer selling amazing widgets. Your soon-to-launch hero SKU has major buzz. Celebrities are talking about it. Consumers are ordering it in droves. You’ve packed up your widgets, and are ready to hit the marketplace. But the delivery truck never arrives; your products never make it to their intended destination.
The same thing can happen in skin care. A formulation can have all the“right” ingredients, but without an effective delivery system, they’re going nowhere.
“Featured ingredients sit proudly on the label of skin care products, and then often sit frustrated on the surface of the skin,” said Mark Chandler, technical manger, skin care innovation with Croda.
What’s worse, your product is doing nothing for consumers either. And now is hardly the time for a misstep, especially in the upper end of the skin care category, a market that has been slowed by the troubled economy. According to data from The NPD Group, Port Washington, NY, October 2009 marked the 12th straight month that prestige skin care sales in the U.S. fell both in dollars and units.“Today’s market is more demanding for quality, immediate performance that can be seen, and cost-effective products,” noted Sam Shefer, executive vice president of Salvona Technologies Inc.
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