LEARNING OUTCOMES
The aim and purpose of the course is to teach students the variety of environmental factors that affect a person during the life cycle. These factors are related to the interventions and changes that human activity has caused to the environment, so students will be taught the way of avoiding the created adverse effects on humans.
At the end of the course students will be able to:
– know the impact of the environment on humans
– prevent the harmful effects
– know the ways of protection from the environmental harmful conditions
SYLLABUS
1. Environment and cosmetics. Endocrine disorder.
2. Nomenclature and properties of polymers in cosmetics.
3. Origin of microplastics in the environment.
4. Macroplastics-cosmetics packaging and environment.
5. Cosmetic raw materials from food waste.
6. Air pollution and skin. Metals in the environment. Skin lesions from natural causes.
7. Free radicals. Sun and skin.
8. Smoke and skin. Detergents. Occupational skin ulcers.
9. Types of environmental pollution. Ultraviolet pollution / noise pollution / air pollution and health.
10. Pesticides/Dioxins/Genetically modified food and health.
11. Weather and climate. Historical background of climate change. Impact of climate change on health. Effects of natural phenomena on health. (heat waves, floods, snowfalls and severe cold, forest fires, hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes, volcanoes).
12. Extreme weather events. Climate change and migration.
13. Treatment by the Aesthetic Cosmetologist.