An abundance of new ideas
Tubes | The winners of Etma’s competition Tube of the Year 2018 reflect the creativity and the innovation potential of Europe’s tube industry.
Luxury at its best – Luxe Pack in Monaco
Events | At this year’s Luxe Pack in Monaco, you will find everything you need to know about luxury packaging. Our exclusive preview is an appetiser to make your mouth water.
Options for hair care
Testing methods | Anne Charpentier from Skinobs shows the broad choice available for testing hair care products and substantiating claims such as anti-pollution.
Opening new doors for cosmetics
Interview | May Shana’a talks about microbiome-based skin care, anti-pollution strategies, epigenetics, Beiersdorf’s latest R&D findings and lots more.
Go Future: Facial Care
Ever so popular – The result of Nivea’s Global Face Care & Cleansing Survey made clear that face care is extremely popular.
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).
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.
The main drivers of facial care
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.
International launches in Facial Care
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*.
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
Vast potential for green cosmetics
Interview | Amarjit Sahota from Ecovia Intelligence talks about the latest international trends in the field of natural cosmetics.
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.
Pure sophistication and more
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.
Mineral UV filters meet the challenge
Ingredients | This paper provides an overview of current challenges in using mineral UV filters and explores the latest scientific advances that improve their performance.
Nail polish removal on the go
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.
Ideas for green beauty
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.