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Many people feel that as they get older, their hair becomes finer and the area of the parting in the hair, and also of the forehead, becomes wider.

The preservation of consumer products can be achieved biologically, using enzymes or microorganisms to control contamination, or physically, by methods of irradiation or UV.

Strange things start to happen when you mix a polyelectrolyte and a wax. Jeen International has introduced a technology platform that delivers an easy to use ingredient and is changing the way we formulate emulsions.

The Italian cosmetics and toiletries industry is booming. Worth a reported e9.1 billion it is the third biggest in Europe, behind only France (e12.8 billion) and Germany (e10.5 billion).

LipoFullerene has been developed by Vitamin C60 BioResearch Corporation, a pioneer in the active ingredients business, with a focus on fullerenes. LipoFullerene markedly reduced superoxide anion radical production in vitro in the mouse stromal preadipocyte and lymphoma cell co-culture system.

With increasingly stringent preservative regulations matched with growing consumer demand for non-traditional preservatives, formulators have increasingly fewer options to protect personal care products from microbial attack.

The Japanese cosmetics market has not grown for more than ten years. However, there are growing cosmetics products, which can be classified into three sub-sections under the keywords of “Organic”, “Natural” and “Orient vegetable”.

Phytoene and phytofluene, the colourless carotenoids, are the precursor carotenoids in the biosynthetic pathway of visibly coloured carotenoids. These molecules are colourless in the visible range; hence absorb light in the UV range only.

There have been a number of papers published on the use of betaine in cosmetics. The objective of this article is to review these and add some new data or new insights on how this ingredient could be used in the future.

Sunflower Shoot Active is a cosmetic ingredient with both protective and reconstructive effects. It showed an impressive down regulation of matrix metalloproteinases in keratinocytes and protection of fibroblasts against stress-induced senescence.

Alpine roses are typical Swiss Alp flowers which grow at altitudes of up to 3200 m. In these harsh environments, they must adapt to extreme conditions such as cold, UV and dryness.

With net sales of €971M, Rhodia serves the personal care market, providing high-performance products and solutions to the cosmetic industry. With its global industrial network, Rhodia holds leading positions in surfactants, performance concentrates and blends natural and biopolymers, proteins, synthetic polymers and preservatives.

A complete emulsifier system that provides manufacturing convenience as it produces uniquely elegant formulations.

Therefore it is even more important that cosmetics remain stable - the natural way. When Dr Straetmans started their development work many years ago, that is exactly what they made their core competence: stabilising cosmetics the natural way.

Gardenia jasminoides stems GTM is the newly developed IRB green biotech ingredient as an extremely useful cosmetic tool for collagen loss prevention in young and aged skins.

AMA Laboratories, Inc. founded in 1984, is a clinical cosmetic laboratory with extensive experience in the fields of health and beauty aids (HBA), cosmetics and OTC’s.

Over the last 20 years, the personal care industry has embraced and encouraged the use of natural ingredients and, in particular, plant derived vegetable oils. Natural oils have found their place in what is an innovative, diverse and ever changing market which, every year, brings new and often exciting challenges.

Jean-Jacques Bourgois is the president and main technical expert of Biorius, an international consultancy in technical and regulatory matters for the cosmetic sector. He is a member of the Board of the Royal Belgian Cosmetic Chemists Society and a certified consultant in industrial politics for the Walloon region of Belgium.

in-cosmetics Asia is returning to Bangkok this year. Over 200 exhibitors are predicted to sign up to present their latest products at BITEC, Hall 101-102, Bangkok, Thailand, on 2-4 November 2010, representing more than a 50% increase on the 2009 show.

The vitality secret of the Inca, maca (Lepidium meyenii) is a treasure from the Peruvian Andes that promotes energy and endurance. New research shows that maca also has efficiency on the skin. Maca contains, among other molecules, macaene and macamides, which are compounds identified by Naturex.