CALLAGHAN CONSULTING INTERNATIONAL

A PhD biochemist Theresa Callaghan is a skin care scientist and cosmetic product claim specialist.  With an international career spanning more than 30 years she has worked for a number of well-respected personal care companies including LVMH (while studying at the Pasteur Institute in Paris), Unilever (UK), Johnson & Johnson (France), Cosmoferm/Evonik (Netherlands), Hill Top Research (UK) and proDERM (Germany). Choosing to remain in Hamburg (Germany), in 2008 she set up her own consulting business, anticipating a need for more discipline of cosmetic claims, and furthering scientific developments involved in that process. As a scientist and the author of the popular book Help! I’m Covered in Adjectives:Cosmetic Claims & The Consumer,  Theresa is also very widely published, as well as providing an education platform for Claims Development.

Theresa gives regular workshops and presentations and is a major contributor for peer-reviewed and trade journals, as well as authoring behalf of clients internationally. She sits on the scientific editorial board of the International Journal of Cosmetic Science, and is an active member of a number of professional societies including the UK’s Society of Cosmetic Scientists. In 2020, Theresa was appointed as guest lecturer at the University of Sunderland School of Pharmaceutical Sciences MSc course in Cosmetics.

Core areas of expertise:

               • Skin Complexities
               • Claims Development for ingredient suppliers and brands
               • Trouble-Shooting for Claims
               • Bespoke Workshops
               • Communications & Author