RECENT NEWS

Symrise’s Scent & Care business unit generated sales of €419.3 million in the first quarter of 2022, up 12.4% on revenue of €373.2 million a year earlier.

Personal care sales have helped to increase global specialty chemicals outfit Elementis to register a 7% year-on-year increase in revenue for Q1 2022.

The global natural skin care products market will be worth $7.14 billion in 2022, according to a new report by market research outfit Fact.MR.

Reed Exhibitions has announced more than 8,000 attended in-cosmetics Global 2022 in Paris this month, the first face-to-face event for three years.

Dow is to build new alkoxylation capacity in the US and Europe to meet fast-growing demand in industries such as personal care.

Croda has launched a new beauty care sustainability identity, Purposeful Beauty, as the speciality chemicals firm aims to “further establish its thought leadership position as a sustainable solution provider”.

Ashland plans to increase the number of farms participating in its sustainable guar scheme in India to 5,000 from 250 following a successful pilot.

CPL Aromas has published its sustainability and impact reports detailing the progress the British company has achieved on its road to its 2030 goals.

Specialty chemicals and ingredients distributor DKSH has formed a partnership with Adeka Europe, a Japanese provider of polymer additives, for the Switzerland, Germany, and Austria (DACH) region.

US firm Ultra Chemical has promoted Laura Anderson to the role of sales manager for North America.

Givaudan Active Beauty sales in the first three months of 2022 grew by 8.2% year on year on a like-for-like basis.

Japan’s DIC Corporation has signed an agreement with US startup Checkerspot aimed at developing personal care ingredients from a high-performance polyol derived from microalgae.

Rahn has won a trio of first place prizes at the 2022 BSB Innovation Awards for cosmetics for Myramaze-Essence, Defensil-Pure and Radicare-Eco.

US specialty chemical and ingredient distributor Univar Solutions has appointed Tony Jaillot as vice president of global Beauty & Personal Care.

Beiersdorf will this summer launch in Germany a moisturiser containing an ingredient obtained from recycled carbon dioxide.

The global anti-ageing cosmetics products market was valued at $52.4 billion in 2021 according to analysts ReAnIn.

German chemical distributor OQEMA has acquired French outfit Orosolv to boost its infrastructure and service capabilities in the country.

BASF and Henkel have made a joint commitment to replace fossil carbon feedstock with renewable feedstock for most products in Henkel’s European Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care businesses over the next four years.

US synthetic biotechnology company Amyris has started the commissioning of its new fermentation plant in Barra Bonita, Brazil ahead of full operation by the end of June.

IFF-Lucas Meyer Cosmetics won the Gold Active Ingredient Award at in-cosmetics Global 2022 in Paris for Wastar Pink Berry.