ABSTRACT
Cosmetotextiles are fast emerging as today’s most potential customer’s lifestyle. Men and women on both sides of the Atlantic are equally excited by the concept of well-being clothes, especially those worn close to the body and capable of providing cosmetic effects. The textiles that provide cosmetic and biological functions such as pleasant feeling, energizing, slimming, refreshing, vitalizing, skin glowing, antiaging, body care, tness, and health are categorized as cosmetotextiles [1]. Wellness or health-promoting aspects of textile nishes have become a delighting functional argument in the twenty-rst century. Wellness can be dened as a pleasant state free from disease and as a healthy balance of human body and mind. It has become a social determination that symbolizes the wish of eternal youth against aging. Extracts of natural products and selected essential oils are loaded to the textiles, which not only causes healing but also keeps the wearer fresh and vigorous. In wound dressings, where slow release of a drug is essential, drug complexes with natural compounds such as chitosan, hyaluronic acid, and alginates serve purpose of controlled release. Natural moisturizing factor (NMF) is a scale to express the activeness of the skin in terms of the moisture level in the horny layer of skin surface. At 20% moisture level, skin remains lustrous and elastic; at the moment it reduces to 10%, the skin becomes dry and rough. The merging of two apparently different sectors cosmetics and textiles clears the way to climbing the heights of cosmetotextiles.
