MANUFACTURE ARTICLES

The California Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists (CASCC) has long stood as a source of innovation, community, and collaboration. Yet today, as we prepare to welcome thousands to Long Beach for our 2025 Suppliers’ Day, we stand at a turning point. This year marks a changing of the guard.

It is almost two years since Belgian speciality chemicals maker Syensqo came into being after the split of Belgian chemical company Solvay into two independent companies. Editor Tim Probert visits Lyon in France, where it recently inaugurated a cutting-edge microbiology laboratory to find out more about the company’s past, present and future

The first edition of Personal Care magazine was published in September 2000. Initially targeted at the Asian market, it has grown to become a truly global publication with distribution on every continent. Over the past 25 years, there have been plenty of ups and some downs. Editor Tim Probert tells the story.

Ecolab Life Sciences explains how personal care and cosmetic products can be produced in an environment free from contamination - essential to the health and safety of the consumer.

Achieving stable, high-performing clean-label emulsions remains a complex challenge, it is one the industry can meet through careful process control. While ingredients play a significant role in regular cosmetics formulations, as VMI explains, the process itself is equally crucial

British technology and innovation social enterprise CPI (Centre for Process Innovation) describes a project that proves automated techniques can produce similar results for cosmetic sampling production to those produced via classical benchtop techniques

Orean head of process chemistry Sarah Lucas Marsden explains the key principles for a successful scaling up of formulations from lab to shelf.