R&D specialists in the chemical industry face unique challenges when serving an expanding worldwide market for cosmetic and toiletry formulated products with millions of prospective new customers. This has fueled unprecedented demand changes in specialty raw materials in the Asia-Pacific region, Western Europe, Japan, and the United States-the four leading global consuming markets. Successful companies must learn new techniques for formulating innovative ingredients for skin lightening and brightening, and hair conditioning and coloring. They must offer new delivery systems for hair and skin care products and understand new measurement techniques for skin whiteness, aging skin and hair luster.There are many ingredients that work via our skin cells' natural ability to communicate with other cells either deeper in the skin. By stimulating our epidermal and dermal cell's communication systems we can restore balance to various cellular functions that can be altered or damaged with age, free radical formation and skins nutritional deficiency...