Bio-functional Cosmetics for Health
Exploring Nature’s Ingredients for Safety, Efficacy, and Sustainability
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Alexandros Tsoupras, George Z. Kyzas
- Language: English
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- Explains the science behind bioactive ingredients from sustainable food sources for formulation, manufacturing, and health promotion in cosmetics, cosmeceuticals and nutricosmetics
- Explores the health benefits from sustainable plant and animal source bioactives in cosmetic formulation
- Highlights the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-UV, and anti-cancer properties of bioactive ingredients in cosmetics
- Examines the safety and benefits of using functional ingredients and bioactives from sustainable sources in cosmetics
- Outlines regulatory and safety issues, and R&D trends for the application of bioactive ingredients in functional cosmetics and cosmeceutical products
1. Defining and Classifying - From Bioactive Ingredients to Health Promoting Attributes
2. Current Rules and Regulations
3. Exploring Marketability
4. Exploring Safety Issues
SECTION II: Health Benefits of Bioactive Ingredients from Sustainable Plant-Based Sources and Their By-Products
5. Medicinal Plants
6. Aromatic Plants and Herbs
7. Herbal Tea, Cacao and Coffee and Bio-Waste Usage
8. Spices
9. Marine and Freshwater Plants
10. Vegetables and Vegetable Bio-Waste
11. Fruits and Fruit By-Products
12. Plant Derived Fermented Beverages (Wine, Beer, Cider) and Their By-Products
13. Nuts
14. Plant Oil and Plant Oil Bio-Waste
15. Cereals
SECTION III: Sustainable Bioactive Ingredients from Microorganisms
16. Healthy Benefits of Bacteria
17. Fungi
18. Protozoans
19. Marine Microorganisms
SECTION IV: Health Benefits of Bioactive Ingredients from Sustainable Animal-Based Sources
20. Mollusks
21. Crustaceans and Shellfish
22. Fish and Fish Bio-Wastes
23. Insects
24. Dairy and Dairy By-Products
SECTION V: Sustainable Inorganic Bioactive Ingredients from Natural Resources
25. Natural Minerals and Metal-Ions
26. Exploring Natural Carbon in Bio-Functional Cosmetics
SECTION VI: Natural Bioactives for Environmental-Friendly Cosmetic and Nutricosmetic Packaging
27. Utilization of Biodegradable and Environmental Friendly Natural Bioactives for Cosmetic and Nutricosmetic Packaging
SECTION VII: Epilogue
28. Growth, Evolution, R&D Trends and Future Perspectives
29. Summary
SECTION VIII: Index
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Alexandros Tsoupras
Dr Alexandros Tsoupras studied Chemistry-Biochemistry (BSc, MSc and PhD; Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), with scholarships, where he also worked as a Postgraduate-Postdoctoral Research-Teaching Associate, and then at the "Albany Medical College" (NY, USA). Alexandros was also a Lecturer in Greek Colleges, a Public Servant-Scientist, and then a Post-Doctoral Research-Teaching Associate at the University of Limerick (Department of Biological Sciences), Ireland, where he was promoted as an Assistant Professor, while since 2023 he is an Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace (Department of Chemistry, Kavala, Greece). He studies the implications of thrombo-inflammation and oxidative stress in chronic diseases, as well as the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of several natural bioactives and/or synthetic compounds, as ingredients for functional foods, cosmetics and/or drugs with health promoting effects, with participations in more than 80 scientific publications (2500 references, h-index=24, Scopus), in Scientific Conferences and patents-inventions
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George Z. Kyzas
Dr. George Z. Kyzas is a Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh). He was born in Drama (Greece) and studied Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). He obtained his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees from the same Department expertised in Chemical Technology. He is now working at the Department of Chemistry (DUTh, Kavala, Greece), being the Head of the Department (since 2019). He is also Director/Chair of the MSc in Cosmetic Chemistry (since 2021). His research interests include the synthesis and characterization of various (majorly adsorbent) materials (inorganic, aluminates, polymers, graphene, activated carbons, agro-food residues, nanomaterials, CNTs, etc.) for environmental applications (wastewater treatment). His scientific work has been published in more than 280 Papers in international journals with high impact factor (IF,ave 6.5), while he published 8 Books, 39 Chapters in scientific Books and holds 3 Patents.
His name is included in the list of World Top 2% Scientists for consecutive years 2019-2022, which is compiled by the Stanford University (USA) based on standardized citation indicators.