Safety Assessment of Cosmetic Ingredients and Formulations

This two-day comprehensive course is aimed at providing the spectrum of reasons, rationale, tools and approaches to test the safety of ingredients, formulations and skin devices in the topical pharmaceutical, cosmetic, personal care and skin medical device industries.

In the current environment of establishing regulations and environmental issues awareness, this course was created in order to offer guidance to professionals in the industry who are concerned with present approaches and future implications.  The core of this course will focus on currently available methodologies, their scope, advantages and limitations.

Nava Dayan is a skin-care and health expert with nearly 25 years of industry experience. Her experience includes skin research and development systems in the personal care, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, medical-device and delivery-system industries. As an independent consultant, Dr. Dayan offers a wide range of services to those industries.

Her expertise includes product innovation, skin biochemistry, the development of ingredients and formulations, delivery systems for both dermal and transdermal applications, prevention of adverse effects, safety assessment, claim substantiation via clinical study design, execution and data interpretation.

Dr. Dayan teaches courses on Biomarkers in Skin Care, Claim Substantiation for Topical Products, Pathways to Skin Penetration, Safety Assessment of Cosmetic Ingredients and Formulations, Skin Inflammation and Dermal Product Development.

Dr. Dayan received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics specializing in skin delivery from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.