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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 619, 2025
3rd International Conference on Sustainable Green Energy Technologies (ICSGET 2025)
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| Article Number | 03014 | |
| Number of page(s) | 16 | |
| Section | Smart Electronics for Sustainable Solutions | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202561903014 | |
| Published online | 12 March 2025 | |
Surfactants and Polymeric Micelles: Innovations in Transdermal and Topical Cosmeceutical Delivery
1 School of Pharmacy, RK University, Kasturbadham, Rajkot, India
2 Department of EEE, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
* Corresponding author: kiran.dudhat@rku.ac.in
Surfactants are essential to many cosmetic formulations. Cosmetic science-acceptable co-solvents or surfactants are often used to improve the solubility of substances that are only weakly soluble in water. Surfactant-produced polymeric micelles offer a variety of distinctive qualities that make them a very promising carrier system for a variety of cosmeceutical goods. The fundamental barrier to transdermal and skin, hair, and nail administration continues to be cosmeceuticals’ limited solubility in biological materials, as demonstrated by around 50% of cosmeceuticals. Incorporating hydrophobic actives into polymeric micelles made of surfactants is one of the most alluring solutions currently available to address these problems. This article reviews about the surfactants, their basics explaining the mechanism to form micelles and its applications related to various site of action.
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