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Cosphatec presents Cosphaderm® GMG

Cosphatec has created a novel and natural alternative preservative-mixture which shows a very strong efficiency against bacteria, yeasts and molds in low concentrations as well as many positive properties: Anticariogen, Anti-acne, Anti-irritant, Anti-nociceptive, Antioxidant, free-radical scavenging, skin and hair conditioning, emollient and emulsifying. Cosphaderm® GMG is a brand new plant derived weapon which can be … Read more

Safic-Alcan UK acquires KemCare

Safic-Alcan UK, a major distributor of specialty chemicals and subsidiary of the Safic-Alcan Group, announces that it has acquired 100% of KemCare, a leading chemical distributor specialising in the Personal Care, Home Care & Industrial sectors in the UK and Ireland. KemCare is a leading distributor of specialty chemicals and fashion products with a focus … Read more

Active ingredients: Tailor-made solutions

Adrian Jäger from Omya presents ingredients from natural calcium carbonate for sustainable oral care, skin care, body scrub and colour cosmetics formulations. Key trends: Natural, organic and renewable Natural, organic and renewable are key trends in the cosmetics and personal care market. Natural calcium carbonate products offer tailor-made solutions for colour cosmetics, skin care products … Read more

Air Products to spin-off Electronic Materials Division as Versum Materials

Air Products’ goal is to become the safest and most profitable industrial gases company in the world, providing excellent service to customers. We have been consistently executing against our strategic, Five-Point plan, which includes focusing on industrial gases and taking actions on non-core businesses. This includes separating Materials Technologies, comprised of Air Products’ Performance Materials … Read more

Evonik acquires Specialty & Coating Additives business of Air Products

• Evonik strengthens leading position in the attractive growth market for specialty & coating additives
• Product and customer portfolios are highly complementary
• Acquisition secures leading position in North America for Evonik and strengthens innovation
• Synergies of 80 million US dollars per year expected

Hallstar Beauty and Personal Care Innovations: Three new products to be introduced at Suppliers’ Day

Hallstar, a specialty chemistry company based in Chicago, announced three new beauty and personal care products — Biochemica® Argan Shine, HallBrite® EZ-FLO TDX and HallBrite® EZ-FLO TDX Plus — will be featured at the 2016 New York Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists event held at the New JerseyConvention and Exposition Center on May … Read more

Vantage Specialty Ingredients Acquires Resources of Nature, South Plainfield, NJ

Vantage Specialty Ingredients successfully completed the acquisition of the net assets of Resources of Nature LLC (http://resourcesofnature.com/). This acquisition brings new complimentary product lines for Vantage Personal Care such as active ingredients, treated powders, dispersions, specialty pigments, emulsifiers and sensory ingredients. Resources of Nature has several unique platforms of technology as well as a trend … Read more

Dow Corning completes investment in manufacturing site

Dow Corning has completed a $6 million expansion at its silicones manufacturing plant in Midland, MI. The investment is to provide growing beauty and personal care markets with a reliable supply of silicone elastomer blends. "Evolving global consumer preferences, specific customer requirements and differing regional expectations are driving innovation and global growth in beauty and … Read more

EU’s approval for zinc oxide

Zinc oxide has entered officially into Annex VI of the EU Cosmetics Regulation. Zinc oxide – in both its nano and non-nano form – is now approved for use as a UV filter in cosmetics in Europe. “UV radiation is responsible for various physiological effects in the skin. These include sunburn, premature appearance of wrinkles … Read more

Actives: Natural skin radiance

Priti Vaidyanathan from Samilabs and Ajax Mohamed from Sabinsa presents the proven skin-lightening and anti-ageing effects of the plant-based ingredient Artonox. Healthy and nourished skin can be suc-cessfully brought out with safe and effective natural products. Owing to their history of traditional use, natural extracts enriched with active phytonutrients are an ideal choice. Traditional knowledge … Read more

BEAUTY FORUM LEIPZIG’s Cosmetology conference highlighted latest scientific findings

During this year’s BEAUTY FORUM LEIPZIG at Leipziger Messe on April 23–24, the 6th Cosmetology Congress on Saturday, April 23 highlighted what the latest scientific findings are in the fields of dermatology, active ingredients and anti-ageing. With a focus on dermatology in the first session of the Cosmetology Congress, Dr Tanja Fischer of Haut- und … Read more

Olvea Burkina Faso’s new plant

In order to better meet the growing demands of the international cosmetics market, Olvea has built a new factory. The inauguration of the new plant took place in the presence of Stéphane Sanou, Minister of Trade, Industry and Handicrafts, representing the President of Burkina Faso, as well as ambassadors from France, Denmark and the European … Read more

Azelis is Showa Denko’s new personal care distributor in Europe

Showa Denko KK (SDK) has agreed with Azelis that the two parties form a business alliance to market SDK’s cosmetic raw materials in Europe, effective from 1 April 2016. The exclusive distributorship agreement enables Azelis to market SDK’s vitamin derivatives (APM, APPRÉCIER, TPNa), a slimming agent (Hi-Carnitine), and hair care products (DL-Cysteine, SPIERA) in Europe. … Read more

Protection from pollutants

Alicia Giménez from Lipotec on how Pollushield* works against the effects of pollutants on the skin. There is increasing concern about the high level of environmental contamination all over the world, and people are increasingly aware of the deleterious effects of pollutants on the skin. In order to minimize these negative consequences, Pollushield functional ingredient … Read more

Symrise opens its own site in Iran

Symrise opened Symrise Parsian – its own site in Tehran, Iran, on April 14, 2016, in order to set up sales offices and application-specific laboratories at the site. The official welcome was carried out by the German ambassador Michael von Ungern-Sternberg. The Board of the German Chamber of Commerce and senior representatives from the German … Read more