International Magazine for Cosmetics and Fragrances
The boundaries between the technology of the digital world and everyday realities have been blurred – especially in colour cosmetics. These influences and inspirations manifest themselves in a colour palette of digitally inspired colours.
Looking for a flawless complexion, customers want products with long-term benefits, but also immediate effects. Powders creating a soft focus, playing with reflections or offering matifying effects can make irregularities and optical defects visually disappear immediately.
The packaging of a cosmetic product communicates a lot about the brand, supporting or not the claims and values of the brand. As a result, brands invest a lot of time and brainpower in the development of the decoration and the appearance of the product in order to create a coherent concept for the appearance of a brand.
Nature offers many ingredients that have been tried and tested over decades and even centuries. With the ongoing organic trend and the increasing demand for natural ingredients, it is interesting that lanolin, one of the most traditional ingredients of all, is not yet available in organic quality. Time to do something about it.
The cosmetics industry has had to deal with the issues of hygiene, infections and microbial dangers for some time. In the recent past, make-up brushes in particular have come to the fore as potential germ carriers. Givaudan took a closer look at this prejudice.
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One year after launching a wide range of turnkey natural & made in Europe sheet masks, a new technical reference has enriched “My Active Mask” range. This is the result of the partnership between MS Beautilab and Taiki Cosmetics Europe.
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Our newest product KahlWax 6698 Orange is medium hard, natural wax blend with a refreshing citrus scent. It combines the emollient character of orange peel wax with the texture enhancing and stabilizing properties of berry wax, which makes it very versatile.
The year 2020 will be remembered as the year in which public life stood still from one day to the next due to the corona pandemic. Trade fair organizers were particularly affected and still are today.
Preservatives, emulsifiers, functional emollients and other additives play a role in skin care products in order to guarantee the effectiveness of the active ingredients and product safety. The newly founded company Evident Ingredients wants to be a good partner for formulators providing knowledge and experience.
More than a trend, the topic of sustainability is an essential criterion for many customers when choosing a product. Creative minds are discovering more and more ways of doing without plastic in packaging. Good reasons to award successful concepts with a prize.
Sensoriality is at the heart of beauty care, with a strong focus on texture and scent experiences. According to Helga Hertsig-Lavocah, we have forgotten sound – and it is sound that will revolutionise beauty care, home fragrance and even home care.
In the cosmetics sector, tubes are one of the longest-used forms of packaging, with major yet inconspicuous changes in the past few decades. What do consumers value today? Juan Ignacio Valpuesta gives us an insight.
Emulsifiers play a major role in the manufacturing process and texture of cosmetic products. A new w/si emulsifier should pave the way to a so-called “new normal” with fewer ingredients, less energy consumption and shorter production times.
Many end customers enjoy skin care and see it as their little daily ritual for greater wellbeing. But what if an ingredient can objectively ensure this? Òscar Expósito reports on the latest research results.
What if a cosmetic product not only had a positive effect on the health and beauty of the skin but also had an impact on the overall condition? Prof Andrea Wanninger explains what role neuroreceptors play and what is actually possible.
Specialist media have touted CBD as the new miracle ingredient for beauty, health and well-being. But is it really? Rosa Porras Mansilla presents the advantages and challenges of using it as a cosmetic active ingredient.
Face care is a very broad and diverse field within skin care and is closely linked to everyday beauty for end customers. There are now numerous active ingredients on the market, and research is still ongoing.
Almonds and their components have long enjoyed the reputation of being beneficial for the body. Not only as a superfood but also in facial care, they prove their versatility. Pure sweet almond oil impresses with several advantages
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Any cosmetic product should be appreciated by the users, safe and compliant to the regulation and must exclude any in-house blacklisted ingredients. How can suppliers of cosmetic Raw Materials or Ingredients consider those needs?
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At this time of contact-free and clean-contact concerns, makeup applicator is more than ever part of the beauty routine of consumers. However, they do not forget the ecological issues, and turn further towards more responsible products.