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The NCS Color System

by Nick Morante

Aug 5, 2008

The Natural Color System® (NCS) is a proprietary perceptual color model published by the Scandinavian Color Institute (Skandinaviska Färginstitutet AB) in Stockholm, Sweden. It is based on the color opponency or color opposites description of color vision, first proposed by German physiologist Ewald Hering...

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Active Ingredients in the Skin Care Market – Part 7

by Nick Morante

Jul 18, 2008

More and more anti-aging ingredients are being made available to cosmetic formulators and there doesn’t seem to be any let up. There are the old stand-bys, some of which we have already mentioned, and there are a number of brand new variations of some commonly used active ingredients. Another group of ingredients I would like to talk about is the PCA derivatives...

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Future cosmetic treatments should perhaps take some interest in the influences of the moon and its alternating gravitational forces on our body liquids...

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