RECENT NEWS

BASF’s Beauty Creations has developed Ultra Filling Spheres, what BASF describe as the ultimate next generation Filling Spheres, with increased technical performance for improved skin benefits.

The New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) honored scientists from Evonik’s Personal Care Business Line with the Shaw Mudge Award for best paper presented at SCC‘s annual scientific meeting and technology showcase.

CLR has announced the addition of a skin lightening agent to its range of ingredients for formulators producing natural cosmetics. Belides ORG, obtained from organic daisy flowers, has been found to produce a strong inhibitory effect on melanogenesis.

Gentronix has introduced BlueScreen HC – a highly specific and sensitive early stage human cell based assay that can be used to identify chemicals that cause damage to DNA, a property known a genotoxicity.

The Union for Ethical Biotrade's conference on 'The Beauty of Sourcing With Respect' will be held in Paris on 19 April 2013.

Floratech announced that it has successfully delivered a shipping container full of relief material directly to the area devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

Oat Cosmetics, a UK-based specialist in the development of natural oat-derived cosmetic ingredients, launched a new range of organic oat ingredients at the SCS Formulate exhibition in Coventry.

Yet another November has come and gone and yet another successful SCS Formulate has been had. KCC Basildon Chemicals enjoyed a greatly successful SCS Formulate this year, with a consistently high footfall at the stand over the two days.

Croda Singapore has announced that its manufacturing facility in Singapore has been awarded RSPO Supply Chain Certification under the Mass Balance Module for the purchase of various palm oil and palm kernel oil products and subsequent processing into, and trading of, speciality derivatives.

Cornelius Personal Care had a magic theme to their stand at this year's SCS Formulate, showing customers how to add a magical touch to all their formulations.

H3i will take place on 5 – 6 March 2013, at the NMM Exhibition Centre, Birmingham UK. H3i is an exhibition and conference that focuses on the raw materials, ingredients and services used in formulating household, industrial & institutional cleaning products.

Making Cosmetics will take place at the NMM Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK, on12-13 March 2013 and will once again by free to attend. Visitors can update their knowledge on a wide range of issues essential to effectively and efficiently making personal care products.

The German Sustainability Award committee has nominated Symrise AG for its approach to the sustainable procurement of vanilla in Madagascar.

Sederma has been awarded the 2012 European New Product Innovation Award for its anti-ageing for leg care product, Legance, by Frost & Sullivan.

Organised by the French Society of Cosmetology, over the previous four years Cosmetagora has become one of the key events on the cosmetic formulation calendar.

The launch of a new conferencing organisation in the UK, TSGE Forum, is being spearheaded by a two-day event on the new cosmetics regulation.

Two new appointments have been announced by specialty chemicals distributor, Cornelius Group.

New technologies and novel green ingredients are the focal themes of the European edition of the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit (www.sustainablecosmeticssummit.com/Europe).

Lack of light, stress or ageing cause our internal biological clock to become desynchronised, which affects skin directly, resulting in dryness, dullness and deep wrinkles.

DKSH’s business unit Performance Materials has started a strategic partnership with Wacker. Under the exclusive distribution agreement, DKSH will market Wacker’s Biosolutions products: