Just like honeybees and flowers, or caped crusaders and their juvenile sidekicks, active ingredients and cosmetic delivery systems have a truly symbiotic relationship. And when active ingredients and cosmetic delivery systems are incorporated into a product formulation together, this dynamic duo can create a truly powerful personal care product for consumers to fall in love with.

So, what exactly is a cosmetic delivery system? A cosmetic delivery system is thetechnology created by formulators to incorporate, integrate, protect, and stabilize the active ingredients within a skincare, personal care, or cosmetic product. And it is this integration of active ingredients that make cosmetic delivery systems so vitally important to product formulations.

Active ingredients are the true stars of a personal care or skin care product, as they are the ingredients that deliver on the product claims, whether it’s slowing the frequency of acne breakouts or reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Common active ingredients include the alpha hydroxy acids, beta hydroxy acids, peptides, sunscreen agents, sulfur, benzoyl peroxide, skin lightening agents like hydroquinone, and retinol. Consumers purchase products specifically for their active ingredients – but without an effective delivery system, active ingredients fail to create results, or to “live up to the hype.”

Without an effective delivery system, active ingredients merely rest on the surface of the skin, instead of deeply penetrating the skin cell to create faster, more efficaciousness results. An efficient delivery system, like the Infinitec cosmetic drone technology, ensures active ingredients go past the outermost skin barrier and truly permeate skin cells, assuring an active ingredient peak performance.

A delivery system also protects active ingredients, by entrapping or encapsulating the active ingredient within a formulation. Since many active ingredients are biologically unstable and easily affected by changes in temperatures, pH levels, light, or oxidation levels, delivery systems ensure an active ingredient’s safe and timely release in a product. Cosmetic delivery systems also ensure that active ingredients are not only stabilized, but also that the active ingredients don’t interact with each other, or at the wrong time.

Cutting-edge delivery systems, like the Infinitec cosmetic drone technology, are aces at helping formulators create both highly powerful and highly stable products that help active ingredients step up to the plate and deliver big results. The Infinitec cosmetic drone in particular is an incredibly innovative example of how an effective delivery system can create a highly functional, optimally targeted use of an active ingredient.

The Infinitec Cosmetic Drone technology works with active ingredients in several key ways.  First, the Infinitec cosmetic drone selects the specific active ingredient and entraps it within an X50 capsule comprised of biodegradable polymers. After the entrapment of the active ingredient, an external agent directs the specific X50 capsule to an exact receptor cell. The specific X50 capsule and the specific receptor cell then chemically bond, and the drone penetrates the skin cell barrier into the fiberblast. The biodegradable polymers of the X50 capsule metabolize naturally and, over time, the active ingredient steadily and efficiently releases.

There have been many famous dynamic duos throughout time: Batman and Robin, Captain America and Bucky, Bert and Ernie, peanut butter and jelly, Snoopy and Woodstock, salt and pepper…and now? Innovative cosmetic delivery systems and active ingredients.