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Fundamentals of Surfactants, Emulsions, and Polymers for Cosmetic Formulations

Course Overview

Note: this is an *on demand* course where registrants will have access to a previous course recording, plus a current live Q&A session with the instructor. This course was originally taught and recorded in October 2022.

This will be a two-day online overview course on fundamental surfactant, emulsion, and polymer science required for direct practical applications in formulation design. The course will develop the fundamental understanding of the physico-chemical properties of surfactants, emulsions, and polymers that can impact the performance criteria (e.g. stability, foaming, cleansing, rheology etc.) of cosmetic and consumer products.

This course can be combined with Fundamentals of Biosurfactants, Bio-based Surfactants and Biopolymers: Overview, Properties and Formulation Design for a discounted price (see below).

Who Should Attend

This course will be of interest and value to scientists, formulators, supervisors, and managers engaged in development, formulation, production, analytical characterization of personal care and consumer products that require a good working knowledge of fundamentals of surfactant, emulsion, and polymer science.

Course Outline:

  • Surfactant Fundamentals
    • ​Classification of Surfactants
    • CMC
    • Kraftt Point, Cloud Point
    • Surface and Interface Properties
    • Self-Assembly
  • Emulsion Fundamentals
    • Classification of emulsions
    • Steps to make an emulsion
    • Emulsion instability mechanisms and stability enhancement
    • Emulsifiers and HLB
  • Polymers Fundamentals
    • Formation of polymers-polymerization reactions
    • Classification of polymers-thermosets, thermoplastics, polyetctrolytes
    • Molecular weight and molecular weight distribution, glass transition temp
    • Polymer solution properties

Course Pricing:

  • $299 - SCC Member
  • $399 - Non-Member
  • $179 – SCC Junior or Student Member

Note: companies registering 5+ SCC members for this course receive $25 off per registration. Companies registering 10+ SCC members for this course receive $50 off per registration. Discounted group registrations need to occur during the same online transaction. If you would like to submit a group registration of 5+ or 10+, or have any other questions about this event, please contact SCC Headquarters Staff.

If also applying for SCC membership, please allow up to five business days for application processing. Member pricing will not be in effect for CEP registrations until after the membership application is approved. 

 View our CEP Course Pricing and Refund Policy.

Combo Pricing (two courses):

Receive discounted pricing when you sign up for both Fundamentals of Surfactants, Emulsions, and Polymers for Cosmetic Formulations AND Fundamentals of Biosurfactants, Bio-based Surfactants and Biopolymers: Overview, Properties and Formulation Design.

  • $540 - SCC Member
  • $720 - Non-Member
  • $320 – SCC Junior or Student Member
     


Instructor: Professor Samiul Amin, PhD

Format: On-Demand

Dates: 

  • Access Begins: 9:00am EDT - Monday, July 17, 2023
  • Access Ends: 11:59pm EDT - Sunday, August 20, 2023
  • Live Q&A w/Instructor: 11:00am-12:30pm EDT - Monday, July 31, 2023
  • Total Course Runtime: 6+ Hours
     

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Course registrants will receive:

[Note: those registering for this course after 07/17/2023 will have a reduced access window for viewing.]

  1. 5 weeks online, on-demand access to the 2022 course recording.
  2. The opportunity to participate in a live online Q&A session with the instructor (July 31, 2023).
  3. A PDF copy of the course slides.

In addition, those completing the course will receive an electronic certificate of course completion from the SCC.

[Note: those registering for the course combo after 07/17/2023 will have a reduced access window for viewing the on-demand course: Fundamentals of Surfactants, Emulsions, and Polymers for Cosmetic Formulations--through 08/20/2023]

Fundamentals of Biosurfactants, Bio-based Surfactants and Biopolymers: Overview, Properties and Formulation Design is an online course that will be delivered LIVE on August 2 & 3, 2023 (with course replay subsequently available through August 27, 2023). If signing up for both courses, the recommended path would be to first view the on-demand course (Fundamentals of Surfactants, Emulsions, and Polymers for Cosmetic Formulations) between July 17-31, 2023 (including the Live Q&A on July 31), and to then participate in the live course (Fundamentals of Biosurfactants, Bio-based Surfactants and Biopolymers: Overview, Properties and Formulation Design) on August 2 & 3, 2023 (plus subsequent replay window). 

This course path allows attendees to learn/review more fundamental aspects of colloidal science and cosmetic formulation, before moving on to the specialized sustainable formulation topics of Biosurfactants, Bio-Based Surfactants, and Bipolymers.

 

About the Instructor

Professor Samiul Amin, PhD

Professor Samiul Amin, PhD. is currently Professor of Practice, Department of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering and Director Engineering Corporate Alliance Program (ECAP) at the University of Miami. Prior to joining academia in March 2018, Prof. Amin has worked in industry for the past 20 years working across Engineering, R&D and Innovation Management in global multinationals such as ExxonMobil, Unilever, L’Oreal and Malvern Instruments in Asia, Europe and the US. Prof. Amin’s expertise is in colloids & complex fluids, rheology, tribology, advanced characterization and formulation design of personal care, homecare and biopharmaceutical products. Prof. Amin previosuly conducted research at Manhattan College focused on formulation design and performance optimization of cosmetic and homecare products based on novel sustainable materials such as biosurfactants and biopolymers. Prof. Amin has a significant number of scientific publications/patents/book chapters in the area of complex fluids, rheology and cosmetic and biopharmaceutical formulations. He has served on scientific committees of multiple national and international societies such as the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and has Chaired and Co-Chaired multiple International Conferences and Workshops. Prof.Amin is currently Editor for Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science-Formulations and Cosmetics and Associate Editor for Surfactants and Detergents.