RECENT NEWS

Surfachem has opened a new technical laboratory within the 3M Buckley Innovation Centre at The University of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, UK.

A two-day seminar in London hosted by the CTPA on 7-8 May at the Royal College of Physicians will focus on practical examples of where difficulties in implementation may lie: covering supply, labelling divergences and responsibilities – including those of the distributor.

Sederma introduces Sebuless, a new multifunctional ingredient designed and demonstrated to mattify and equalise the skin tone of oily and acne-prone skin, in just one month.

DSM Nutritional Products announces a change in management of its Personal Care Business Unit. Ilona Haaijer who built and led the unit over the past four years has accepted another appointment within DSM.

Hairstyling products with an anti-ageing effect are very much in demand. After years of work in this field, a team of researchers at Bayer MaterialScience has now made a breakthrough in hair care with the waterborne polyurethane dispersion Baycusan C 1008.

Skin care masks allow consumers to focus on specific needs of the epidermis. They are part of a woman’s beauty ritual. Efficient and pleasant to use, their activity targets each kind of skin.

Independent European distributor Cornelius Group plc remains committed to its strategy of growing both domestically and internationally, leveraging its core supply chain competencies and knowledge of the cosmetics and personal care, food, and industrial markets.

Finding ingredients that provide unique textures and texture transitions are becoming more and more important to formulators worldwide. This desire for texture innovation is being driven by marketers who are constantly seeking to find differentiation for not only their product but their overall brand as well.

AMA Laboratories is now staffing 51 professionals and has expanded to occupy 60,000 square feet of modern laboratory and office space located 30 minutes north of New York City.

The Australian Society of Cosmetic Chemists has announced it will be hosting the 12th Biannual Conference of the Asian Societies of Cosmetic Scientists.

The Beluran Smallholder Palm Oil Cluster (SPOC) is the first independent group of farmers to become certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Malaysia.

French company Naturex has unveiled a new collection of ingredients that tap into France’s heritage in agriculture and the cosmetics industry. The idea behind the ‘French Touch’ collection is to provide ingredients that are grown, harvested and processed in France.

The Supervisory Board of Lanxess AG has announced by mutual agreement, the appointment of Axel C. Heitmann as member and chairman of the Board of Management of Lanxess AG, effective the end of 28 February 2014.

Renowned as the global meeting place for fragrance industry professionals, the World Perfumery Congress returns to the ancestral home of modern perfumery – France – from 10-12 June 2014.

Sales of male grooming products in Asia are now growing faster (9% in 2013) than the beauty segment (5%) and the personal care category as a whole (6%), according to research from Kantar Worldpanel.

Oral ingestion of Verisol collagen peptides lead to a pronounced, statistically significant reduction of eye wrinkle volume. This is the result of a recently published study by the University of Kiel Germany focusing on the effect of these Bioactive Collagen Peptides (BCP) on human skin conditions.

GMP certification for actives firm SGS has awarded Sederma with the Cosmetic Ingredient Good Manufacturing Practices certification.

TRI-K Industries Inc, a Galaxy Surfactants Group Company, India, announced its acquisition of the business of Surfactants International and its division of Surety Laboratories from Actives International.

Croda International Plc, the specialty chemical company, has been listed as one of the top Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World for a second consecutive year.

The volumes of the face undergo deep changes over the years, a phenomenon which is exacerbated by repeated exposure to UV rays. For the first time, Silab research has brought to light that solar radiation indirectly affects deep tissue via cellular communication between the dermis and the hypodermis.