Due to the low yield, the oil shale processing was finally reduced to the medical and cosmetic applications.

ILs can extract specific compounds from plants for pharmaceutical, nutritional and cosmetic applications, such as the antimalarial drug artemisinin from the plant Artemisia annua.

Acetone is used in a variety of general medical and cosmetic applications and is also listed as a component in food additives and food packaging.

This makes squalane more profitable in cosmetic applications, where it is used as an emollient and moisturizer.

Interfacial cross-linking is derived from interfacial polycondensation, and was developed to avoid the use of toxic diamines, for pharmaceutical or cosmetic applications.

The procedure is considered by medical experts to be too experimental, and medically and ethically controversial, to have cosmetic applications.

Over the following decades, new products were developed and trialled in leading Russian and European institutions for medical, cosmetic, agricultural and veterinary applications.

Last month, the F.D.A. approved Botox for cosmetic applications.

In cosmetic applications, a Botox injection, consisting of a small dose of botulinum toxin, can be used to prevent development of wrinkles by paralyzing facial muscles.

Additional acrylic paints can be mixed with the liquid latex solution for custom colors but may not be suitable for use a cosmetic application.