Recently, many cosmetic researchers have been focused on the development of high functional cosmetics including anti-wrinkle and whitening. In these studies, they couldn't afford to pay a deep attention to stable encapsulations for unstable materials and efficient drug deliveries for them. Particularly, in order to show a degree of instant effects as cosmetics, they can't also ignore moisturizing effect enough to satisfy customers just after applying and its maintenance by improving the function of skin barrier as well as above two effects. Therefore, skin analogue systems have attracted considerable attention in the view of structural and compositional similarity to intercellular membrane in stratum corneum. And, some models for skin analogue composition were developed to improve the function of skin barrier, stably encapsulate unstable materials such as retinol, vitamin B, C, E, etc., and control their skin penetration in order to show good effects as cosmetics. In this study, we suggest the new skin analogue model having the compositional similarity as well as conventional structural ones. Our skin analogue membrane(SAM) is mainly composed of ceramide/ cholesterol/phosphatidylcholin/fatty acids and its structural defects are compensated by including cholesterol amphiphile and controlling the ratio of ceramide/cholesterol. It was possible to confirm the formation of skin analogue membrane having highly-densed multilamella structure and compare them according to the change of each ratio with a polarized microscope, X-ray diffraction. More detaily, we observed their structures with a electron microscope(TEM). Finally, we dispersed them in excess of continuous water phase, observed the formation of maltese-cross liquid crystalline and measured the efficiency of drug deliveries and moisturizing effects.

천연색소를 이용한 천연 색조화장품 개발을 위한 기초자료로 활용하고자, 15종의 천연색소를 사용하여 제조한 화장료 조성물에 대하여 항균활성 및 항산화능을 조사하였다. 실험에 사용한 6종의 균주 중 Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Aspergillus flavus에 대해 대부분의 색소혼합조성물에서 항균활성이 나타나는 것으로 확인되었으며, Proteus vulgaris에서는 다른 균주에 비해 항균활성이 상대적으로 낮았다. 색소종류별로는 자색고구마, 여주, 파프리카, 뽕잎, 지치 등의 색소 조성물에서 다른 색소 조성물에서보다 더 높은 항균활성을 보였다. 또한 DPPH 라디컬 소거능은 양파껍질, 파프리카, 적양배추, 뽕잎, 포도과피, 오디, 레드비트 색소 함유 조성물에서 상대적으로 높은 활성을 보였으며, 아질산염 소거능에 있어서는 특히 pH 1.2에서 적양배추, 포도과피, 오디, 백년초를 제외한 대부분의 색소에서 70% 이상의 높은 활성을 나타냈다. 다양한 천연색소를 이용하여 수행한 본 실험을 통해 천연색소의 높은 항균효과와 항산화능을 확인할 수 있었으며, 향후 이러한 기능성을 활용한 안전한 천연 색조화장품 개발에 유용한 자료가 될 것으로 기대한다.