Cosmetics: Science and Technology was first published in the year 1957 and was unique in the sense that it was written by sixty-one authors, with most of them being employed with firms manufacturing the products described. Volume one includes descriptive information on the manufacture and formulation of fifteen different products and classes of products. It also contains discussion concerning legal considerations, quality control, preservation of cosmetics, and other areas of concern to the cosmetic industry. An author index, subject index, and trade name index are also included in the book.

About the Author
Marvin S. Balsam, founder and president of Standard Aromatics, Inc.; B.A. Columbia College, 1948, with additional work in Chemical Engineering and Business Administration; member of the American Society of Perfumers and the Society of Cosmetic Chemists.

Edward Sagarin, Ph.D., New York Univeristy, 1966; during his career in cosmetic and perfume industry, was associated with Givaudan Corporation and then with Standard Aromatics; author of The Science and Art of Perfumery; a few years after publication of the first edition of Cosmetics: Science and Technology, returned to school to study sociology, and obtained degree; has written extensively in sociology, particularly on crime and deviant behavior, presently teaching in that field.