[Bebalevis]

Pharma said:

Bebalevis said:

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Please note that I’m based in Switzerland at the moment, even if I follow mainly english-speaking communities because I feel more comfortable when researching in english.
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If you’re fairly fluent in German, then the PTA Forum on the DAC/NRF site might be a place to look at. However, its focus is on pharmaceutical preparations (BTW German PTAs are usually better formulators than German pharmacists).

Me, I’m not in any professional cosmetics community (other than here)…

Regarding recommended lectures: THIS is one of the ‘must read’, one of the very few. Else, use ScienceDirect and PubMed… or a free mirror for pre-print publications if you can’t afford buying publications (most of which have unknown value just from reading the abstract, anyway). There aren’t many books with useful real-life details but just general knowledge and theoretical in depth studies regarding highly specific subjects. Hence, read tons of books (not only cosmetics and stay clear of cosmetic journals, they suck) and use your brain and experience to extrapolate to your specific task at hand .

Maybe go to trade shows such as in-cosmetics for networking?

PS Greetings from Zürich.

Thank you for the advices. I am quite ok with german, but not fluent, and I also don’t like to study in german as for me it’s still really energy-consuming and easily causes my brain to burn-out.

I already know Steven Abbott’s work and I am reading it right now. I’m also in contact with him. The work he did it’s really amazing, and useful. His books are though very complicated and technical, so I believe I would need a lot of time to understand everything. I believe I still lack some basic concepts to fully understand them (e.g. colloids, rheology, polymer properties).

What do you mean with cosmetic journals? Publication journals or magazines? Do you think that for example cosmetics from mdpi is worth reading? I got very interested in some articles of the journal of colloid and interface science, but as you already said, I cannot afford to buy singularly publications that I believe “could” be interesting.

I subscribed to a magazine to remain updated about new discoveries and innovations, and I find it pretty helpful, so that I can find all the interesting new publications summarized in one, same, place. Then if I find it interesting, I can always read the original paper cited.

[Bebalevis]

Hello everybody! Glad to be finally here presenting me.

I’m a cosmetic formulator currently located in Switzerland. I am graduated in industrial pharmacy but always wanted to work as a formulator in the cosmetic industry, because I really enjoy the freedom of action given to cosmetic formulators, compared to all the limitations that are instead (rightfully) imposed to pharmaceutical formulators.
Due to my background, my knowledge concentrates mainly in everything linked with powders and tablets, but I’m deeply interested in surfactant and colloidal science and I’m currently concentrating in learning more and more about it.

I am also very interested in technology and logic, and hence I apply statistic and DoEs to my scientific approach. My objective for the future is to understand the behavior of complex mixtures and of the molecules that compose these mixtures.
I mostly work with natural ingredients, but this does not mean that I don’t want to learn about the other materials.

I also like programming languages, cooking, origami, cosplay and everything that I can build from scratch by mixing a bunch of basic things.
Long ago I created a website that has the aim to share knowledge and resources about cosmetics within people speaking my same language. This was created primarly because of the lack of scientifically valid information about cosmetic mixtures.

I am looking forward to connecting with a lot of you!