Product development | Look at some inspiring key developments of 2018
This month Michelle Strutton from Mintel highlights a selection of interesting and innovative beauty products launched during 2018. The selection recently highlighted on the company’s GNPD* includes products which embrace several trends that will continue to develop during 2019 and beyond.
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Ingredients | Clariant’s Genadvance is a new generation of sustainable conditioning ingredients to combat daily hair stresses, with each delivering specific benefits for three major customer concerns – damaged, dry, and thin, lifeless hair.
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Formulations | Our selection this month shows a broad range of creams, gels, lotions, fluids balms, scrubs and exfoliating products.
Ingredients | Alexandra Jeanneau from Alban Muller International presents Glucohyami, a skin-identical booster to hyaluronic synthesis and plant-derived alternative to conventional glucosamine and hyaluronic acid.
Interview | May Shana’a explains why an innovator in skin care has to be more than just a scientist.
Production | Ludger J. Fischer et al. explain that the exact analysis of the behaviour of laboratory equipment and production machines is a prerequisite for achieving reproducible results and thus a reliable scale-up when dispersing in emulsion production.
Packaging | Droppers used to be just a side issue, but now they are taking the world by storm. Rosa Porras from Virospack explains why.
Events | What were major take-home messages from the 11th Natural & Organic Cosmetics Conference 2018 in Berlin? Find out about the prospects of a market segment subjected to constant change.
Inteview | What are the challenges concerning the sustainability of aerosol cans and what is the future potential for increasing their sustainability? Leopold Werdich from Tubex explains.
Aerosols | How is the market doing and what are the latest developments? Together, the members of the international organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers (Aerobal) produced nearly 3.3 billion cans in the first half of 2018, substantially more than in the same period the year before. Adjusted for the production output of new member companies, this figure represents remarkable market growth of about 5%.
Ingredients | Diazo dissociative dyes are a new class of physical direct hair dyes which have qualified as November’s Star of the Month as they create a multi-layer dyeing patterns in the hair’s cortex which leads to a 3D reflection of light, thus changing hairs’ colour depending on their movement.
Ingredients | The 30th IFSCC Congress in Munich with its more than 400 presentations offered a wealth of scientific research. Andrea Weber from Babor sums up the most relevant trends and findings.
Packaging | Be inspired by 2018’s key developments in packaging: Corpack’s Sughera cork-blend material, Neopac’s 95% bio-based Picea wood tube and the Polyfoil dropper tubes, Schubert’s preconfigured case packer and Virospack’s new dropper with a subtly curved bulb and cap.
Events | The 30th IFSCC Congress 2018* which took place in Munich, September 18–21 with its 85 podium presentations and 448 posters attracted a total of 1,094 individuals from 53 countries.
Corporate Vice President, Cosmetic & Toiletries, R&D, Henkel presented The Smart Salon concept which includes individualised hair care and colouration products based on NIR/UV-Vis hair status analysis, consumer consultation and a smart mixing device in the hair salon.
Market survey | Packaging is paramount when it comes to dressing up your latest product concept. But which packaging suppliers offer which packaging items? And which services go with their products?
Interview | What are the challenges in the development of sustainable ingredients and what solutions are there for new market needs? Find out from Xavier Susterac from BASF.
Ingredients | Bart Maxon from Dow shows the versatility of silicone chemistry and explains what types of silicones to use for what benefits in different product categories.