Santrauka:
Darbe yra atskleidžiama, kokia turi būti kosmetikos gaminio sudėtis ir kuo kiekviena sudėtinė dalis yra svarbi. Aprašomi kenksmingi ingredientai ir koks yra jų poveikis odai. Taip pat, įvertinamas moterų informuotumas apie kenksmingų ingredientų poveikį odai.
Description:
The theme of this thesis is ‘Women's awareness of the effects of harmful ingredients in cosmetics on the skin’. The supervisor of this study: Dr. Sandrija Čapkauskienė. Kaunas College, Faculty of Medicine, Cosmetology Department. Kaunas, 2018.
The goal of the final thesis: to assess women's awareness of the effects of harmful ingredients in cosmetics on the skin.
Objectives:
1. Define mandatory cosmetic ingredients and their legal regulation. 2. Identify which skin damaging ingredients constitute cosmetic products. 3. Examine women's awareness of the effects of skin damaging cosmetic ingredients.
In this work, the analysis of scientific literature and the questionnaire survey were conducted in writing. To assess women's awareness of the effects of skin damaging ingredients, a quantitative study was carried out. The method of data collection chosen for this research was a written survey. The survey was conducted in April 2018, with 50 respondents participating in the study. The research instrument - the questionnaire - consisted of 16 questions.
The study revealed that most women have little information about harmful ingredients in cosmetics. The results show that women often read the label before buying a cosmetic product. Very few women know what parabens are, which indicates that women's knowledge about harmful ingredients is limited, since parabens are the most popular preservatives used in cosmetics. The study found that the awareness of the majority of women about the effects of skin damaging ingredients is moderate. In addition, a large proportion of women choose a different types of cosmetics (natural or synthetic).
Key words: skin damaging cosmetic ingredients, parabens, preservatives, emulsifiers, cosmetics side effects, heavy metals, sodium laureth sulfate.
