Professor Svitlana Marchyshyn, the Head of the Department of Pharmacognosy and Medical Botany of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, took part in the conference “1st Natural Cosmetics International Meeting”. The event took place on September 22-24, 2021 at the Center for International Education in Kelnarów near Rzeszów, Poland, and was organized by the University of Information Technology and Management. Ukraine was also represented by Solomiya Kozachok, who works in Polish research laboratories on her doctoral dissertation (research advisor Prof. S. Marchyshyn).
Prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Głowniak at the opening of the conference
The purpose of the event was to cover all aspects related to natural products and current research methods for obtaining active natural ingredients, obtained mainly from plant raw materials.
60 scholars from Poland, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Belgium, Turkey, Ukraine, Australia, Greece, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong joined the conference. They presented the results of their research in 16 plenary lectures, 5 short lectures and 40 poster presentations.
Our team presented poster presentations on the topic: “Essential oils of herbs of some species of marigold genus (Tagetes L.)” – authors Kostyshyn L., Valko T., Marchyshyn S., Mashkovska S.; and “Foamability and foam stability potential of Herniaria glabra L. saponins” – authors Kozachok S., Pecio Ł., Marchyshyn S., Oleszek W.
A number of master classes were delivered within the forum, in which Svitlana Marchyshyn and Solomiya Kozachok took part. At the master class “Calculations of the natural and organic index of cosmetics according to ISO 16128-1: 2016 and ISO 16128-2: 2017 guidelines” the definitions of “natural ingredients”, “derivatives of natural ingredients”, “organic ingredients” and “derivatives of organic ingredients” were presented to the participants, as well as the requirements for natural and organic cosmetics in accordance with ISO 16128, legislation on advertising and marketing of these products in the world. The participants could also test two main methods of determining and confirming the naturalness and organicity of cosmetic products, calculate natural indices, indices of natural origin, organic index and index of organic origin in selected samples of cosmetic products.
The master class “Basics on natural cosmetics formulations” was held to inform the general public that plant extracts are an important group of active ingredients used in cosmetic products. Various samples of plant extracts used in the cosmetic industry were presented at the seminar. Participants had the opportunity to prepare a recipe for a particular cosmetic product, as well as to study the methods of introducing plant extracts into the recipe depending on their physical and chemical properties.
Information and experience gained during the “1st Natural Cosmetics International Meeting” will be used in the educational process for lectures and training sessions in phytotherapy, nutrition, pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical botany, as well as in research work of the Department of Pharmacognosy and Medical Botany of I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University.