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　　功能化妆品可定义为：化妆品和药物益处相结合，并能改善人们容貌，促使其生理改变的化合物3，见Fig1－2。
或功能化妆品：是来自化妆品和药物的混合物，可增加容貌的美丽，而且也具有影响机体结构或功能，或具有减轻、治疗或预防疾病的医疗作用。

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　　功能化妆品：是用以描述这样一种化妆品的术语，即这种化妆品含有对人体产生影响的生物活性成分。
　　字典没有对功能化妆品术语进行定义，目前在欧洲它有点太边缘化，以致还不能成为主流语言。在欧洲有些人仍然拒绝接受功能化妆品的存在，但该术语在美国市场很流行。
　　不管有多少种说法，我们将把功能化妆品定义为：产生或声称对人体有功效益处的一类化妆品。这些可以是生理上的或甚至是心理上的。并且，肯定地，它们的确对商业目的是有用的。
　　每天都有越来越多的术语，用来描述我们正在称为功能化妆品这类日用品。这些包括：
美容增补剂；活性化妆品；效能化妆品；生物活性化妆品；植物化妆品；功效化妆品
皮肤治疗剂；皮肤药物；化妆品药物；疗效性化妆品。
　　当然，这些术语不都是一样的，在有些情况下，使用者正试图对一些产品类别进行正确地区分；在另一些情况下，使用者可能会简单地"将新酒装入旧瓶"。
　　美容增补剂基本上是天然营养保健类产品，通过口服产生美容效果，它们通常以胶囊形式使用，但有时以汤剂或甚至酊剂形式使用。
　　活性化妆品包括"活性"成分，可能不产生许多令人满意的健康益处，然而使用类似效能化妆品或功效化妆品的术语意味着：它们比一般化妆品表现出一些较有用的功效。
　　比如：皮肤治疗剂和皮肤药物只能简单地归为功能化妆品中的一小类，而化妆品药物被美国食品药物管理局定义为：化妆品和药物相组合的产品，这类产品包括含氟牙膏，抗头皮屑香波，也必须符合人体健康，化妆品卫生和安全法规。由于世界上现有的化妆品卫生和安全法规，和全球文化存在着不同的差异，造成对功能化妆品的许多不同解释；并且不同的国家正在使用上述多种短语和术语，来表达功能化妆品。
1. The Cosmeceuticals Overview
1.1 The definition of cosmeceuticals
　　Over the past more than 10 years, as a result of innovation in both the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries and as a result of changing consumer attitudes forwards cosmetics, the line between cosmetics and drugs has blurred with this intersection, a new category of products has emerged that with this intersection, a new category of products has emerged that offers both cosmetic and drug-like benefits, Though the Food & Drug Administration does not define a separate category of cosmeceutical the term has been derived and driven by marketplace participants to describe the interface between cosmetic and pharmaceutical products.
　　Cosmeteutical can be defined as compounds that combine cosmetic and therapeutic benefits, improving the patient's appearance or promoting physiologic change.
Cosmeceutioals, hybrid products derived from cosmetics and drugs, enhance aesthetic appearance, but also make therapeutic claims with respect to affecting structure or function of the body or mitigating, treating, or preventing disease.
　　Cosmecenticals is the term used to describe cosmetics containing ingredients that are bioactive, exerting effects on people.
　　There is no dictionary definition for the term cosmeceutical-it's a little too peripheral to have made it into mainstream language just yet in Europe many still refuse to accept the existence of cosmeceuticals at all, claiming the term to be little more than a US marketing gimmick .Be that as it may, for the purposes of this article, we'll define cosmeceuticals as "a category of cosmetic products that produce or claim to produce therapeutic benefits." These may be physiological or even psychological. And, yes, they certainly can be useful for marketing purposes.
　　Every day there seem to be more and more terms describing what we are referring to as cosmeceuticals. These include:
Beauty supplements
Active cosmetics
Bio-active cosmetics

Phytocosmetics
Functional cosmetics
Dermaceuticals
Skinceuticals
Cosmetic drugs
Therapeutic cosmetics
　　These terms are of course, not all identical, in some cases, the users are trying to make some valid distinctions between product categories in others they may be simply trying to "Put new wine into old bottles"
　　Beauty Supplements are basically a nutraceutical sub-category featuring products intended or claimed to produce beauty from within like dietary supplements, they are generally consumed as capsules, or less frequently as tisanes or even tinctures.
　　Active cosmetics include 'active' ingredients that may not produce desirable health benefits, while terms like performance or functional imply they perform some useful task or function beyond the cosmetic.
　　Terms like dermaceuticals and skinceuticals simply refer to a narrow group of cosmeceuticals, whereas cosmetic drugs are products that the US Food and Drug Administration defines as combinations of cosmetics and drugs. Such products include fluoride toothpaste and anti-dandruff shampoos, and they must comply with both health and cosmetic health and safety regulations. The term therapeutic cosmetics may be the best one to describe the role and purples of cosmeceuticals without raising unnecessary legal debate.
　　In general, the difference in global cultures and existing regulations around the world would lead to many different interpretations of a cosmeceutical, and already different countries are some a using a variety of above -mentioned phrases or terms for cosmeceuticals.
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