Cosmetic chemist
Code 2113.1.4
Cosmetic chemists develop formulas in order to create and test new cosmetic products and improve existing cosmetic products such as perfumes and fragrances, lipstick, waterproof lotions and makeup, hair dye, soaps and detergents with special properties, topical medicines or health supplements.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- good manufacturing practices
- cosmetics ingredients
- scientific research methodology
- analytical chemistry
- laboratory techniques
Skills and competences
- speak different languages
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- formulate cosmetic products
- operate open source software
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- write scientific publications
- evaluate research activities
- manage research data
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage open publications
- integrate gender dimension in research
- perform scientific research
- conduct research across disciplines
- think abstractly
- mentor individuals
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- perform chemical experiments
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- conform to cosmetics regulatory requirements
- apply for research funding
- troubleshoot cosmetics formula issues
Transversal competences
- examine production samples
- test beauty products
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage personal professional development
- perform project management
- report analysis results
- think analytically
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- recommend product improvements
- adhere to Standard Operating Procedures
- synthesise information
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