RECENT NEWS

Cornelius Personal Care had a magic theme to their stand at this year's SCS Formulate, showing customers how to add a magical touch to all their formulations.

H3i will take place on 5 – 6 March 2013, at the NMM Exhibition Centre, Birmingham UK. H3i is an exhibition and conference that focuses on the raw materials, ingredients and services used in formulating household, industrial & institutional cleaning products.

Making Cosmetics will take place at the NMM Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK, on12-13 March 2013 and will once again by free to attend. Visitors can update their knowledge on a wide range of issues essential to effectively and efficiently making personal care products.

The German Sustainability Award committee has nominated Symrise AG for its approach to the sustainable procurement of vanilla in Madagascar.

Sederma has been awarded the 2012 European New Product Innovation Award for its anti-ageing for leg care product, Legance, by Frost & Sullivan.

Organised by the French Society of Cosmetology, over the previous four years Cosmetagora has become one of the key events on the cosmetic formulation calendar.

The launch of a new conferencing organisation in the UK, TSGE Forum, is being spearheaded by a two-day event on the new cosmetics regulation.

Two new appointments have been announced by specialty chemicals distributor, Cornelius Group.

New technologies and novel green ingredients are the focal themes of the European edition of the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit (www.sustainablecosmeticssummit.com/Europe).

Lack of light, stress or ageing cause our internal biological clock to become desynchronised, which affects skin directly, resulting in dryness, dullness and deep wrinkles.

DKSH’s business unit Performance Materials has started a strategic partnership with Wacker. Under the exclusive distribution agreement, DKSH will market Wacker’s Biosolutions products:

Dow Polyurethanes, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company has announced the addition of Optim synthetic glycerine to its propylene glycol (PG) business portfolio.

Vantage Specialty Chemicals announced that it has purchased Desert Whale Jojoba Company, a US grower, producer and processor of jojoba and jojoba-based derivatives, oils and specialty ingredients.

Vantage Specialty Chemicals announced that it has purchased Desert Whale Jojoba Company, a US grower, producer and processor of jojoba and jojoba-based derivatives, oils and specialty ingredients.

The HallStar Company has promoted David Rosenberger to the position of vice president of sales, where he will be responsible for global sales activity across the company’s personal care and industrial divisions.

Innospec Inc. has announced that it is renaming one of its business segments. The current Active Chemicals business segment, will be renamed Performance Chemicals.

LuroMed has announced that it has appointed Lipo, a Vantage Specialty Chemical’s global personal care business, as worldwide distributor of the Biopolymer line of personal care products.

Floratech introduces L22, a newly-patented botanical emollient base which emulates the skin lipid profile of a healthy 22-year-old.

Inolex has launched a new range of 100% natural and sustainable emollients, using biobased succinic acid from BioAmber.

The DSM Personal Care business unit has revealed new findings on Alpaflor Edelweiss, the organic certified skin care ingredient.