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AAK was awarded the Sustainable Ingredient Award for its Lipex SheaLight product. The Sustainable Beauty Awards is organised by Organic Monitor to highlight those who are at the forefront when it comes to sustainability in the beauty industry. The Sustainable Ingredient Award goes to a cosmetic ingredient that makes a significant difference in terms of environmental and/or social footprint.

Amyris is now selling globally a second renewable ingredient under its Neossance brand. Neossance Hemisqualane is a pure, plant-derived, light emollient with high spreadability and proven performance characteristics. This ingredient addresses the emollient market with better performance compared to existing products in this large and growing market.

US company, FloraTech, has announced changes to its marketing team. Michele Ward is to move to vice president, Marketing & Business Systems, while Brigid Maloney is to become marketing manager at the company.

The move towards milder formulations is taking off in Asia, according to IMCD business group director, Gabriele Bonomi. Speaking to Personal Care magazine at in-cosmetics Asia, Mr Bonomi said: “More and more there has been consumer awareness regarding this area. Also, more consumers are turning the bottles around to see what the ingredients are in whatever they are buying.”

Nutritional deficiencies have a major impact on the skin, which becomes drier, less firm and wrinkles appear. Thanks to its optimised peptide structure, rich in rice di- and tripeptides that can be rapidly assimilated, Nutripeptides from Silab is an essential comprehensive anti-ageing active ingredient that offsets the skin’s nutritional imbalances, boosts its cellular metabolism and increases its defence mechanisms.

Surfachem Ltd, a 2M Holdings Ltd company, has announced that Greg Barton has joined the board as sales & marketing director as of 1 January 2015.

Evonik Industries is launching two new products to replace microplastics in peeling products: the specialty silica Sipernat 2200 PC and Sipernat 22 PC. A number of prominent international cosmetics companies already use the new specialty silica products in shower gels, facial care and body peeling products based on the prototypes released by Evonik in late 2013.

Every two years the French Society awards a prize for services to the field of cosmetology. On 26 November 2014, Jean-Yves Berthon, president of the Greentech Group, was awarded the most prestigious award of the French Society of Cosmetology (SFC – Société Française de Cosmétologie).

The Visioscan VC 98 from Courage+Khazaka, a unique UVA-light video camera with high resolution to study the skin surface directly, is now available in a USB-connected version.

Croda has conducted a study which shows the moisturising active DuraQuench IQ SA, can deliver scalp moisturisation and hair conditioning benefits when used at 1% w/w in a rinse-off hair care product. This exciting new data broadens DuraQuench IQ SA’s application capabilities, making it an attractive proposition for hair care applications, in addition to skin care.

Amyris is now selling globally a second renewable ingredient under its Neossance brand. Neossance Hemisqualane is a pure, plant-derived, light emollient with high spreadability and proven performance characteristics.

Lipo Technologies (LTI) has announced the opening of their new facility in Englewood, Ohio.

Alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs) are part of Naturex’s ‘New Radiance’ collection of ingredients. Exclusively extracted from natural sources, these AHAs combine performance and ease of use.

Croda has new data showing their emollient Cromollient SCE has the ability to mitigate skin irritation caused by surfactants, meeting the growing consumer need for mild and gentle cleansing products.

Evonik is launching Varisoft EQ 100 (INCI proposed: Quaternium-98), a novel premium hair conditioning agent with exceptional performance and pronounced sustainability features.

DSM Personal Care has presented new data under its Corneocare innovation platform demonstrating the differences in skin hydration among different skin ethnicities. The company is now able to share the new research findings on the role of skin pigmentation in facial stratum corneum (SC) barrier integrity and a repair capacity.

Nutritional deficiencies have a major impact on the skin, which becomes drier, less firm and wrinkles appear.

GreenPalm, the sustainable palm oil certificate- trading programme, will be asking delegates to answer some difficult questions at the 12th Annual Roundtable Meeting on Sustainable Palm Oil (RT12). The questions will be posed via a display panel at GreenPalm’s exhibition booth during the conference in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia from 17-20 November 2014.

Clariant has addresses the increasing consumer demand for milder, skin-friendly personal care products with the launch of its new range of multifunctional co-surfactants at in-cosmetics Asia 2014. Offering a combination of excellent cleaning performance and mildness, the ingredients will open the door to inspiring new skin and hair care formulation concepts.

Ashland has announced the launch of its Chinese website: www.ashlandchina.com, designed to meet the growing needs of customers, suppliers, media and other key stakeholders in China.