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).
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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.
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.
Be inspired: Ingredient Highlight
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.
The PERFECT blend – Schwan Cosmetics
Interview | “Schwan Cosmetics is now moving into the space of being a sustainable innovator”
Market Survey: Ingredients Suppliers
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.
Go Future: Natural Cosmetics
Natural cosmetics has been very successful in the past few years. After all the idea of cosmetics without contentious synthetic chemicals appeals to consumers all over the world.
Eye-catching products
Events | At MakeUp in Paris this June 160 exhibitors showed their latest developments in packaging, full service offers and of course ingredients for dazzling colour cosmetics products and integrated skin care benefits.
Formulation: Hair Care
Formulations | This time our selection of the latest formulations tackles hair care products. The range comprises of course bread and butter products such as shampoos, conditioners, sprays, waxes, jellies and hair dyes.
Natural alternatives
Inteview | Fana Makonnen from Inolex provides an update on alternatives for silicones, alternative preservation systems, film formers for sun care products, wetting agents for colour cosmetics and the company’s environmental commitment.
Unveiling the latest trends
Interview | Elfriede Dambacher and Wolf Lüdge provide the latest insights into the international natural cosmetics market and explain what to expect from this year’s Natural and Organic Cosmetics Conference in Berlin.