title: [Safety of cosmetics use for infants and children].
abstract: The skin of youngest children, especially newborn and infant skin, has a different reactivity to exogenous factors in comparison to skin of older children and adults. The anatomical and functional distinctions of infant skin, and the risk of use of inappropriate cosmetic ingredients and other xenobiotics are discussed, as well as the most common adverse eff ects of cosmetics use in children. The paper moreover, provides an extensive overview of the ingredients used in cosmetics for children.
authors: Zakład Farmakologii, Instytut Matki i Dziecka, ul. Kasprzaka 17a, 01-211 Warszawa. ewa.kaminska@imid.med.pl
authors: Ewa
authors: E
authors: Kamińska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D003358:Cosmetics / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000032:analysis* / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012867:Skin / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D003358:Cosmetics