RECENT NEWS

Researchers at the Institute of Food Engineering, Shanghai Normal University, China, believe green tea is an excellent potential ingredient for skin care products.

Consumer Product Testing Company (CPTC) has announced the appointment of Dr Michael Caswell to spearhead their clinical evaluation team.

At this year’s HBA Global Expo, Cognis Care Chemicals and its active ingredients business Laboratoires Sérobiologiques (LS) presented their latest developments for personal care solutions at the LS booth and during the conference sessions.

The Personal Care and Homecare Ingredients (PCHi) trade show exhibition area will be expanded by 16% and features such as the New Technology Feature Area and conference program will be upscaled, indicating that the global cosmetics and toiletries market is poised for renewed growth.

Clariant has announced the launch of its new EcoTain label to support the cosmetic and personal care industry’s commitment to choosing greener products and formulation concepts.

ISP Personal Care has announced the addition of a new sun care UV filter to its portfolio that has been designed to provide broad spectrum skin protection against damage caused by exposure to the sun.

ISP Personal Care has announced the addition of a new sun care UV filter to its portfolio that has been designed to provide broad spectrum skin protection against damage caused by exposure to the sun.

Demand for skin beautifying ingredients that can be used orally and topically is growing worldwide, according to French company, Axialys.

Gabriel Khazaka, CEO and founder of Courage and Khazaka Electronic GmbH, Germany, one of the leading manufacturers of skin testing instruments, was honoured in September for his lifetime of work by being appointed an honorary professor of the University of France-Compt, Besanon, France.

EverLaSkin is a unique natural ingredient which manufacturer, BioSpectrum, who is currently promoting the product, claims will stimulate dormant stem cells under the skin.

UK cosmetics firm Body Shop has come under fire from Christian Aid and the Guardian newspaper due to its trading with a Columbian palm oil company who are believed to have evicted peasant farmers in order to build a new plantation.

The European Commission and the European cosmetic industry presented their joint financial effort for research into alternative safety testing methods recently at the VII World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Rome.

Before scientists and chemists use anything in their professional work, what’s the first thing they do? They gather as much information as they can, from as many different sources as possible. SCS Formulate will take place at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry on the 18-19 November.

German ingredients supplier Symrise has introduced a deodorant to the market which they claim is both environmentally friendly and kind to the skin.

Spanish multinational Natraceutical Group, a biotechnology corporation in the field of research and development on functional ingredients, active principles and nutritional supplements, and French multinational Naturex, a supplier of natural speciality ingredients to food, flavour, food supplements, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, formalised yesterday the binding contracts for the merger of their ingredient activities.

in-cosmetics is launching a brand new Lifetime Achievement Award to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The award will honour an outstanding individual whose professional accomplishments have made a significant and lasting impact on the field of cosmetic science.

Croda is promoting its new UV protection hair product, ChromaVeil. Like skin, hair is susceptible to damage from overexposure to the sun. This damage affects the aesthetics of the hair and its mechanical and physical properties.

The Dow Chemical Company showcased a wide variety of ingredients and technologies to enhance the performance and sensory properties of personal care products as part of its “Something Beautiful is Growing” theme at October’s in-cosmetics Asia trade show in Singapore.

Merck KGaA has announced that it has acquired Suzhou Taizhu Technology Development (“Taizhu”), a supplier of effect pigments located in Taicang near Shanghai, China.

Specialty chemical company, Clariant, has formally opened a surfactants production facility in Zhenjiang, eastern China. The plant, which is fully operational, has been designed to meet China’s growing demand for surfactants from various sectors.