FEATURE ARTICLES

Silicones are recognised as versatile materials across the board in personal care, not only for their multifunctional performance, but also their distinctive sensory properties.

Making Cosmetics is an exhibition featuring seminars and technical presentations, while also being a problem solving centre for everyone sourcing, manufacturing and outsourcing personal care products and deals with the detailed issues of taking products from concept to consumer.

The personal care industry’s foremost current marketing desire is to produce cosmetics and personal care products with “green” claims to meet perceived customer requirements.

Doing things efficiently and fast is a key part in the Korean culture. It has been ever since 1950, when the country had to get its economy back on its feet in the aftermath of the devastating Korean War.

The Chinese cosmetics and toiletries (C&T) industry experienced tremendous growth in the last decade, to say the least. At present, the country’s personal care market is the second largest in Asia-Pacific after Japan, and the third largest worldwide.

Silicone crosspolymers (also known as silicone elastomers) are relatively novel products that have provided silicone formulators with new tools to modify rheology and sensory attributes of personal care formulations.

As presented in a previous edition of this magazine, the ASEAN Cosmetics Association (ACA) held its AGM on 20 June in Brunei Darussalam. Representatives of all the member organisations were present and duly elected the new committee for 2011-2013.

The Asian cosmetics market represents one of the most dynamic in the world, with imported and exported products displaying impressive growth over the last few years.

We exist with odours all around us from the food we prepare, buy and eat, the environment we live within, and the offices, houses, apartments, toilets, animals, and people we come across day in, day out.

Stem cells are unspecialised cells with the capacity to self-renew over the whole life period of the organism. When needed, stem cells produce cells that undergo differentiation to specialised tissue cells.

One of the major current trends in the cosmetics industry, based on both scientific and “marketing” criteria, is the pronounced aspiration to use an increasing number of plant extracts or natural molecules not used in cosmetic formulations before.

Ecogel is the first natural origin gellingemulsifying agent registered by ECOCERT. It allows the emulsification, the increase in viscosity and the stability of formulae. Easy-to-use, Ecogel is compatible with electrolytes, surfactants and is stable over a wide range of pH.

Melanin, is a dark pigment produced by the skin as a natural sunscreen in response to ultraviolet radiation exposure. Although a tanned skin is considered attractive, the long-term exposure to ultraviolet radiation entails serious risk of skin damage.

Adipocytes hold the main source of energy stored in the body in the form of triacylglycerols (TAG). It is known that the hydrolysis of TAGs and the release of nonesterified free fatty acids and the resulting glycerol can be regulated by a process which depends on a lipolysis reaction messenger molecule, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP).

There was a time when a chemical distributor could be considered simply a trader. A demand was identified, a supplier was found, material was purchased and sold. Life was simple.

The organisers of the SEPAWA/EDC conference from 12-14 October 2011 are expecting more than 1600 trade specialists to come to find out about the latest cosmetics, washing, detergents and cleaner trends.

Contemporary knowledge regarding the structural behaviour of soaps and surfactants is indebted to the research work conducted during the second and the third quarters of the last century by McBain, Luzzati, Lloyd, Rosevear etc.

The skin plays an integral role in personal wellbeing and has a number of functions, e.g. protection, sensation and communication. It is also the organ that is most exposed to external stress factors, such as UV irradiation, temperature extremes, dry air and xenobiotics.

For the first time in the history of the show, in-cosmetics Asia has collaborated with the International Federation of the Societies of Cosmetics Chemists (IFSCC) partnered with the Society of Cosmetic Chemists Thailand (SCCT) to create “Beauty Week in Bangkok”.

Wrinkles can sometimes be considered as “charming” but only a few find them attractive per se. The most obvious proof of this universal fight against wrinkles is the consistent increase in revenue performed by anti-agers over the last five years, despite of the recession.