Lab Skills: Scientific Journals

Empower yourself with scientifically backed information! Level up your knowledge of ingredients to create effective and evidence-based cosmetic formulations.

With so much poor quality information available online, peer-reviewed scientific papers are a much more reliable and accurate source of information. They can be used to fact-check information about ingredients and as evidence of how effective these ingredients are.

But it isn’t always easy to access journals and if they use a lot of academic/scientific terminology they can be difficult to read.

This guide is full of practical and helpful tips to help you find journal papers for free, understand and interpret journal articles and use them as references.

We conduct a lot of research using scientific papers and journals here at the School of Natural Skincare, and this class is designed to help you do the same.

In this class, we will cover:

1. Why are scientific journals useful to formulators
2. What are scientific journals?
3. Structure of a journal article.
4. How to read, understand and interpret journal articles.
5. How to evaluate journal articles.
6. How to find and access scientific journals.
7. How to use references.
8. Worked example.

Start using journals to research exciting and innovative ingredients and formulations. Update and further your knowledge by keeping informed of developments and conducting research on topics of interest to you.

Ultimately become more self-reliant and confident in your knowledge by learning how to find and read scientific journals.

Not a member of the Club? Join now and use your first month's credits to access the Lab Skills: Scientific Journals class, plus another 25-credit class of your choice.

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