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Formulations 2019: Anti-Ageing
Formulations | Benefit from our compilation of inspiring formulations for anti-ageing products, a category that keeps growing and thriving.
Ingredients
The fascination of red
Xenia Petsitis from Merck provides inspiring ideas on how to obtain stable and safe red, reddish and pink shades by combining different types of pigments.
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Moonshine™ Effect Pigments: shine in new splendour and impress with unique technology
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Exploring the future of skin beauty
Interview | Jean-Yves Berthon talks about Greentech’s most innovative active ingredients and extracts, the benefits of extremophile plants, the importance of the bacterial skin flora to the skin’s appearance and prebiotic solutions for sweat and malodour.
A long way to go?
Ingredients | What microbes inhabit our skin and do these interact with one another? Dr Karl Lintner’s explanations show that there is still a long way to go before establishing credible microbiome-related beauty claims.
A new option for SPF assessment?
Interview | Uli Osterwalder compares the in vivo SPF gold standard with current alternatives and points out the advantages of the hybrid diffuse reflectance method (HDRS).
For strengthened skin
INGREDIENTS | City dwellers tend to have a reduced bacterial diversity and a decrease in bacterial metabolic pathways. The heptapeptide Fensebiome peptide from Lipotec has been proven to increase the microbial diversity, to favour the balance of the microbiota and to modulate bacterial functional pathways.
Formulation: Body Care
Formulations | This month’s selection of formulations provides you with a broad choice of fascinating ideas for body care products. Apart from traditional body creams, butters, lotions and milks you will find concepts for shower gels, cleansing and self-tanning sticks, slimming products, body mists, hand creams and washes as well as tooth foams
Korea-inspired ingredient for crystal-clear skin
Ingredients | Inspired by Korea’s beauty trend of layering intense hydration to achieve a flawless and radiant skin, and in order to provide protection against indoor and outdoor pollution, Sederma offers a broad range of innovative skin care active ingredients, which meet today’s beauty trends and customer needs.
Oxygen to combat blue light effects
Ingredients | Launched in 2010, Silab’s Oxygeskin has a proven effect of overcoming the lack of oxygen in the skin during ageing. The company’s new efficacy data demonstrate the ingredient’s capacity to reinvigorate skin oxygenation in conditions of digital pollution.
New tool simplifies the development of sunscreens
Sunscreens | DSM’s Sunscreen Optimizer tool enables formulators to develop new products more efficiently or optimise existing Formulations before verifying SPF performance in vivo.
Be inspired: Ingredient Highlight
Be inspired by key developments for the cosmetics industry: Find new ingredients, smart packaging solutions, cutting edge machines and technology, clever services and other innovative solutions that will help you when devoloping innovative cosmetics solutions for the personal care and cosmetics industry.
Go Future: Natural Cosmetics
Natural cosmetics has been very successful in the past few years. After all the idea of cosmetics without contentious synthetic chemicals appeals to consumers all over the world.
Formulation: Hair Care
Formulations | This time our selection of the latest formulations tackles hair care products. The range comprises of course bread and butter products such as shampoos, conditioners, sprays, waxes, jellies and hair dyes.
Natural alternatives
Inteview | Fana Makonnen from Inolex provides an update on alternatives for silicones, alternative preservation systems, film formers for sun care products, wetting agents for colour cosmetics and the company’s environmental commitment.
Beautiful by nature
Ingredients | Dr Nora Schiemann from IMCD looks at the latest trends in natural cosmetics and what broad choice of ingredients there is to create successful product concepts.
Beauty from Asian-Pacific plants
Ingredients | Extracts from Asia-Pacific such as artemisia, lemon myrtle and spikenard can provide antimicrobial protection, soothe skin inflammation and bring brightening benefits to the skin respectively.