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Microencapsulation-how it’s changing skincare

Good things may now come in small skincare packages. Daniel Judd looks at how packaging ingredients into micro-capsules could benefit your skin. There’s a quiet revolution going on at a cosmetics counter near you. You may have heard the buzzword – micro-encapsulation. It’s a big word for packaging ingredients into tiny capsules that will either better preserve or release ingredients into the skin in a very different way from what we’re used to. Cosmetics can be tricky things to build. Many of the ingredients you love, your antioxidants, your vitamins, your nutrients and your fragrances all have problems that limit…