RECENT NEWS

Mibelle Biochemistry launches AnaGain, an ingredient designed for hair care products to successfully fight hair loss. AnaGain, which is based on organic pea sprouts, has proven to clearly reactivate hair growth by directly targeting the dermal papilla cells that are key to the hair growth cycle.

Evonik offers two new aminopropyl dimethicone products for cost-efficient and effective hair conditioning. ABIL Soft AF 200 has been optimised for high-performance conditioning out of shampoo formulations.

Whether a style is simple and smooth or pushes the fashion envelope, maintaining lustrous, manageable, hair can present a significant challenge. Based on advanced silicone technology, Dow Corning CE-8411 Smooth Plus Emulsion brings moisturisation benefits to premium shampoos and rinse-off hair conditioners.

Silab has won the Innovation Zone Best Ingredient Award at in-cosmetics Asia 2012 for its product, Vederine. Offering the restructuring benefits of a vitamin D-like active, Vederine restores the capacity of aged cells.

Dow Personal Care has launched MoistStar HA+ Moisturizing Technology, a novel ingredient that offers longer-lasting skin moisturisation and easier processing.

BASF’s Beauty Creations has developed Ultra Filling Spheres, what BASF describe as the ultimate next generation Filling Spheres, with increased technical performance for improved skin benefits.

The New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) honored scientists from Evonik’s Personal Care Business Line with the Shaw Mudge Award for best paper presented at SCC‘s annual scientific meeting and technology showcase.

CLR has announced the addition of a skin lightening agent to its range of ingredients for formulators producing natural cosmetics. Belides ORG, obtained from organic daisy flowers, has been found to produce a strong inhibitory effect on melanogenesis.

Gentronix has introduced BlueScreen HC – a highly specific and sensitive early stage human cell based assay that can be used to identify chemicals that cause damage to DNA, a property known a genotoxicity.

The Union for Ethical Biotrade's conference on 'The Beauty of Sourcing With Respect' will be held in Paris on 19 April 2013.

Floratech announced that it has successfully delivered a shipping container full of relief material directly to the area devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

Oat Cosmetics, a UK-based specialist in the development of natural oat-derived cosmetic ingredients, launched a new range of organic oat ingredients at the SCS Formulate exhibition in Coventry.

Yet another November has come and gone and yet another successful SCS Formulate has been had. KCC Basildon Chemicals enjoyed a greatly successful SCS Formulate this year, with a consistently high footfall at the stand over the two days.

Croda Singapore has announced that its manufacturing facility in Singapore has been awarded RSPO Supply Chain Certification under the Mass Balance Module for the purchase of various palm oil and palm kernel oil products and subsequent processing into, and trading of, speciality derivatives.

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.