Ever so popular – The result of Nivea’s Global Face Care & Cleansing Survey made clear that face care is extremely popular.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Interview | What are the main trend clusters driving facial care? What are the challenges involved in natural cosmetics? And what are we to think of current ingredient trends? Find out from Michele Marchini and Svetlana Vinogradova from DSM.
Product development | This month Michelle Strutton from Mintel looks at innovative facial care products and features a selection of interesting products recently highlighted on the company’s GNPD*.
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.
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
Interview | Amarjit Sahota from Ecovia Intelligence talks about the latest international trends in the field of natural cosmetics.
Sunscreens | DSM’s Sunscreen Optimizer tool enables formulators to develop new products more efficiently or optimise existing Formulations before verifying SPF performance in vivo.
Events | Our selection of new developments presented at this year’s Cosmetic Business shows new packaging, ingredients and full-service highlights and appealing formulation concepts.
Ingredients | This paper provides an overview of current challenges in using mineral UV filters and explores the latest scientific advances that improve their performance.
Product development | The Sign Tribe is a new beauty brand that has just launched what it claims to be the world’s first nail polish remover cream. This innovation qualifies as our Star of the Month.
Events | What new, intriguing product concepts are out there for transforming beauty routines? What new trends determine the future in the field of natural cosmetics? Find out from Imogen Matthews, Consultant to In-Cosmetics.
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.
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Charlotte Libby, Global Beauty Analyst from Mintel provides a concise overview of the latest developments in colour cosmetics.
Market survey | If you are interested in finding out which ingredients suppliers offer what type of ingredients, then this tabular market survey is just what you are looking for. It also shows you what type of ingredients and/or what they specialise in, but it also provides you with immediate contact details.