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Customized fast to market: Compalen Slip Strip compounds for gentle and caring shaving

Compalen Slip Strip are ready-to-use care compounds from GRAFE for the production of slip strips that make wet shaving particularly gentle and pleasant. Carrier materials are polystyrene (PS) or thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) for processing by injection moulding or extrusion.  When compounding Compalen Slip Strip, GRAFE uses its extensive know-how in the additivation of thermoplastics to … Read more

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Beauty in all its facets – Ceramides from Evonik

Ceramides for all tones and textures! From celebrities like Rihanna with her Fenty Beauty line to smaller labels, inclusive beauty is here to stay and gives new as well as established brands the chance to be part of the revolution and to lastingly expand their circle of customers.  Evonik has been conducting fundamental research into … Read more

May it be a little more?

By Dr Dhanushka Hettiarachchi

Sandalwood is known for its special aroma. But the wood and the oil obtained from it also have powerful ingredients that can be used well for cosmetic products. Dr Dhanushka Hettiarachchi talks about the potential of oil.

Quality of natural ingredients

By Sophia Steinmetz

Especially with natural ingredients, quality but also sustainability in production plays a role if availability and price stability are to be maintained. Using the example of avocado oil, Sophia Steinmetz shows how a holistic, environmentally, and socially responsible concept for cosmetic ingredients can work.

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Adding meaning to cosmetics science

Aiming to be the most significant step forward towards a just world and a sustainable future, Ethicskin™ embodies Provital’s new broad-spectrum ethos. A multifunctional, well-aging active developed with Mujeres y Ambiente, a collaboration with sustainable farmers in Mexico that was supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and awarded with their Equator Prize 2020. … Read more

Go beyond conditioning

Natural ingredients – this is one very important demand of more and more customers. An alternative in hair care could be a biodegradable polymer based on cellulose technology.

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Long live our skin microbiota!

DEFENSIL®-PURE is obtained by high-tech fermentation of organic gold millet. It naturally balances the skin microbiota, strengthens the skin barrier and moisturises particularly dry skin. Furthermore, it improves the complexion, and counteracts atopic eczema. Very dry atopic skin suffers constantly from physical damage and a weakened skin barrier. This opens the door for undesired bacteria … Read more

Out of the deep blue sea

By Fidji Briand, Xavier Briand

Slowing down the ageing process and protecting skin against various harmful rays of light are two important aspects that an anti-ageing product should meet. Fidji Briand and Xavier Briand have investigated what fuctosterol and marine carotenoids obtained from the alga Himanthalia elongata can do.

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The newest red pearl for eye-catching effects

ECKART´s latest incorporation to its portfolio of intense colored pigments for cosmetics is called MIRAGE Bright Luminous Red. Formulators of modern cosmetics looking for an uncomplicated red pearl have the answer in this innovative effect pigment: the eye-catching sparkle of highly pure borosilicates, hand in hand with superior color intensity and outstanding coverage. Additionally, MIRAGE … Read more

Encapsulated power

Retinol is considered to be one of the industry’s gold standard ingredients for ageless skin. But how can this wonder-ingredient work even better? Dr Saher Duchi and Dr Danny Goldstein know how it can be shielded with micro encapsula-tion technology.

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Ethicskin™, adding meaning to beauty.

Ethicskin™ arises from the need to broaden the limits of sustainability and ethics in the beauty sector, the need to make biodiversity conservation go hand in hand with social and economic growth, to value and fairly reward the traditional knowledge and natural resources. Aiming to be the most significant step forward towards a just world … Read more

Feel Good!

By Dr Elisabeth Streefland

After numerous measures to combat the corona-virus pandemic have made it difficult to visit the hairdresser for a long time, the desire for professional care is great – but at the same time the products should be sustainable. Dr Elisabeth Streefland knows what is already possible in the field of hair care.

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Baycusan® eco E 1001: unlocking more natural & long-lasting make-up

Formulators of modern make-up face a growing challenge: How to develop cosmetic products that show a high level of plant-based ingredients, yet still ensure long-lasting performance? Our naturally-derived Baycusan® eco E 1001 film former can help solve this dilemma.   Adding our film former provides eye makeup formula with outstanding waterproofing, rub-off resistance and smudge-proof … Read more

For sustainable cosmetic innovation

By Dr Barbara Olioso

So-called green chemistry is a relatively young discipline that can do a lot for environmental protection, especially when it comes to sustainability. Barbara Olioso shows what is behind it and how cosmetic products can benefit from it both in terms of content and image.

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BASF’s Sunscreen Simulator: The industry benchmark raises the bar

BASF’s Care Creations® has introduced a new version of its Sunscreen Simulator, with an array of additional practical and convenient functionalities. Its new “cockpit” user interface and the integrated EcoSun Pass tool make it easier than ever for formulators to develop innovative, effective and environmentally conscious sun care products.  The tool enables cost-effective, unlimited and … Read more

Potentials of clays

By Júlia Comas

Clay masks are mainly well-known for their natural purifying properties. One of the markers used to indicate the degree of skin purity is the number of bacterial porphyrins present in the skin.

Choosing the right additives

By Jennifer Hermitage

As customers become better informed, their expectations of their care brands are getting higher. To meet the demand for effective but “clean” products, the use of additives is increasingly becoming a long-term strategic decision.

Sustainable stabilisation

By Alessa Huneke

If you want to manufacture products on a sustainable basis, you should also pay attention to microplastics in the formulations. To reduce the proportion of synthetic polymers that are difficult to degrade, other stabilisation systems, for example based on microcrystalline cellulose, can be used.

Precise delivery of actives

Liposomes are used so that active ingredients can penetrate exactly into the skin layer intended for them and act there. Daniel Pando and Dr Jörg Oliver Schmitz talk about their different capabilities depending on the size and composition of the Liposomes.

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