“…To improve the traditional trial-anderror procedure during this phase, many authors have developed a knowledge basis for the identification of the consumer needs, the inclusion of suitable categories of ingredients, and the desired enduse properties, particularly in the case of cosmetics and personal care products. [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] In the context of emulsions, Mattei et al 14 proposed such a knowledge basis, including consumer needs, categories of ingredients, and product properties with target values and intervals of acceptance. However, one of the main challenges still to be solved is the formalization of the consumer needs and their translation into measurable properties, namely for product attributes whose assessment is inherently subjective, such as those related to human senses.…”