Modular Booster Skin Care Formulation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current personalized skin care systems often fail to provide customized, stable, and efficacious skin care compositions tailored to individual skin conditions, as they typically rely on limited formulations and single-dose actives that may not address specific skin needs effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method that involves obtaining skin information from consumers, generating multiple skin conditions, selecting corresponding ingredients, and creating a compatibility profile to formulate a customized skin care composition comprising a base and booster compositions that, when mixed, form a stable and efficacious product addressing specific skin concerns.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If personalized skin care systems use limited formulations and single-dose actives, then the system complexity is reduced, but the ability to address specific skin needs effectively deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The skin care system is segmented into multiple independent booster compositions, each containing a different active ingredient (e.g., retinol, vitamin C, niacinamide, hyaluronic acid). These modular boosters can be selectively combined with a base composition to create personalized formulations tailored to specific skin concerns, thereby increasing adaptability without requiring complete reformulation of the entire product line.
Solution Approach 2:
The base composition serves as a universal platform that can be combined with various booster compositions to address multiple different skin concerns. This multi-functional approach allows a single base formula to support diverse personalized formulations, enhancing the system's versatility while maintaining operational simplicity.
2Reliability
If multiple active ingredients are combined in customized formulations, then the effectiveness for specific skin conditions is improved, but the stability of the formulation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The formulation is divided into separate booster compositions that are mixed at the point of use rather than being pre-combined. This segmentation prevents stability issues that would arise from long-term storage of multiple incompatible actives together, while still allowing effective combinations to be created when needed for specific skin conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
Each booster composition is pre-formulated and stabilized individually with appropriate pH buffers, chelating agents, and preservatives tailored to its specific active ingredient. This preliminary stabilization ensures that each component remains stable during storage, and only becomes reactive when freshly combined with the base composition at the point of use.
3Ease of manufacture
If water-soluble actives are used in aqueous based serums, then the ease of manufacture is improved, but the range of effective active ingredients deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates boosters with varying solubility characteristics (water-soluble, oil-soluble, and amphiphilic actives) by adjusting formulation parameters such as pH, ionic strength, and the inclusion of solubilizing agents. This allows a diverse range of effective active ingredients to be manufactured using standardized aqueous-based processes while maintaining their individual solubility requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The booster compositions utilize composite formulation strategies, combining multiple excipients and adjuvants (e.g., surfactants, co-solvents, stabilizers) with the active ingredients to create stable, manufacturable products that overcome solubility limitations while maintaining ease of production through standardized aqueous processing methods.
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AI summary
A method for providing a customized skin care product to a customer. The method includes obtaining skin information from a consumer regarding current skin conditions. A skin condition is generated in response to the skin information. An ingredient is selected corresponding to the skin condition. A compatibility profile is generated corresponding to all previously selected ingredients. The generating skin conditions, selecting the ingredient and generating the compatibility profile are repeated until a sufficient number of ingredients are selected to provide a formulation that includes a base and at least two booster compositions that, when mixed, form a skin care composition that is stable and has efficacious concentrations of active ingredients corresponding to skin conditions of a consumer. The formulation comprising the ingredients selected is generated and a cosmetic dispensing system dispenses the ingredients of the formulation.