Topical Products for the Aging Face

Health and Beauty Cosmeceuticals Industry and Market Expansion in Saudi Arabia

“…This is expected to be due to the wide selection of the latest products available ahead of other distribution channels. The popularity of all three top distribution channels is mainly due to consumers' preference to be able to get product information on the spot from knowledgeable consumers and diverse target groups in the entire cosmeceutical landscape [24,27,28,42,49]. Importantly, exploring and establishing consumers penetration, acceptance and uptake strategies including beauty esthetics and orthodontics private healthcare providers and insurers are other alternative channels to ease domestic manufacturers or retailer of branded generics [5,8,29,50].…”

“…Domestic players are mostly focused on branded generics manufacturing or license agreement with Pfizer, GSK and J&J pharmaceutical firms [43,44]. Moreover, the government has the responsibility to support the local value chains, nurturing capital for joint ventures and sponsoring price regulation and good practices as well as mitigating R&D into drugs and drug-like products innovations [24,27,44,45].…”

“…It is anticipated that the global cosmeceutical market will hit USD $61 billion by 2020 majorly driven par consumers desired maintain the skin/body care, beauty and resolve the imperfections and anti-ageing [1,29,30,31]. Personal care and beauty industries have the ability to improve Saudi import and export transactions and market (e.g., Banaja Saudi Import Company, Spimaco, Tabuk Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Manufacturing and Al-Jazeera Pharmaceutical Industries), population income growth, employment and increasing the appetites for quality healthcare and hygiene under the regulation, supervision and coordination Saudi Food and drug Authority (SDFA) and other government stakeholders agencies [6,8,24,25,32,39,40]. The prediction showed that new ingredients will continue to be developed in this sector locally from plant, animal and marine sources [1,2,27,33,41].…”

“…The trend and future implications of cosmeceuticals is fuelled from micro-and macrofauna, flora and marine environment [20,21]. These are productive source of novel cosmeceuticals highlighting the potential development of novel effective and bioactive cosmeceuticals agents such retinoids, esthetics, surgery and orthodontics, anti-ageing and sunscreens, moisturizers, enzymes, hydroacids, depigmentation, proteins and peptides, and growth factors [22][23][24]. There are various formulation depending on the firms and the consumers' needs and varied from (skincare, hair-care, tooth whiteners, injectable, lipcare), chemical (antioxidants, sunscreens, acids, enzymes or hormones and botanical) to organic/biological or bio-products (Table 1).…”

“…There are various formulation depending on the firms and the consumers' needs and varied from (skincare, hair-care, tooth whiteners, injectable, lipcare), chemical (antioxidants, sunscreens, acids, enzymes or hormones and botanical) to organic/biological or bio-products (Table 1). These products can use for specified purposes in beauty and personal care, with diverse mechanisms of action including 1) increasing exfoliation or normalization of cellular repair or response, 2) receptor activation and photoprotection, 3) skin barrier enhancement, 4) cellular messenger communication and provision, 5) up or down regulation and modulation of pigmentation and anti-ageing or anti-acne [20][21][22][23][24][25]. Furthermore, their applications have been showed with less scientific rationale to be beneficial and yet some still have documented scientific proof or rationale.…”