RECENT NEWS

The Fragrance Foundation’s FiFi Technological Breakthrough of the Year award has been given to French fragrance house MANE which has used Dow’s water-based micro-emulsion technology.

The emerging market of cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals will be explored at the X-Ceuticals Conference taking place at HBA Global Expo in the US (www.hbaexpo.com).

Cellworks Group Inc., a proteomics-driven therapy design company, and ISP Personal Care, a global supplier of advanced personal care ingredients, have formed an alliance to use sophisticated computer modelling techniques to develop and demonstrate novel skin care approaches based on ISP’s Vincience line of biofunctional ingredients.

The Eastman Chemical Company has won one of the US Government’s top environmental awards for its breakthrough Eastman green biocatalytic process.

Grant Industries Inc has launched Granactive AR-1423, a unique delivery matrix that can be used in cosmetic treatments to alleviate the redness associated with red (rosacea-like) skin types or after mild sun exposure.

A promotional “road show” programme is commencing for FormulaCare i-2010, an event which will feature laboratories designed to be used by personal care market chemical manufacturers and suppliers of goods and services.

The Dow Chemical Company and Antaria Limited of Perth, Australia, have reached an agreement that will expand the territories in which Dow can market and sell ZinClear IM zinc oxide products, including more than 20 additional countries representing parts of Eastern Europe and Russia, Asia, and the India and Middle East regions.

Dr Straetmans GmbH has finalised negotiations for cooperation with distribution partners in China, Turkey and Malaysia. For the distribution of Dr Staetmans raw materials in China, Shanghai Hope-Tec has been selected.

With age, the effects of gravity on the skin become more visible, and the skin becomes less firm and begins to sag, stresses Sederma which is launching a solution to the problem.

This year’s SCS Formulate will, as have previous events in the series, bring together the latest tools, techniques and materials formulators need to keep ahead, and will also, in a new development for 2009, have specially highlighted content so that visitors can find exactly what they want even more easily.

BDIH (Germany), Bioforum (Belgium), Cosmebio and Ecocert (France), ICEA (Italy) and the Soil Association (UK),

The International Federation of the Societies of Cosmetic Chemists (IFSCC) has announced that its KOSMET literature database has now over 48,000 entries.

Membership to the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling (ISEAL) Alliance has been granted to the Union for Ethical BioTrade, making it the first organisation without connection to a founding member to obtain full membership since ISEAL’s establishment. .

The in-cosmetics asia event in October will feature a major French pavilion. Fifteen French companies will be showcasing aspects of innovation and demonstrating vitality in the marketplace.

The Xiameter web-enabled marketplace of Dow Corning now has an expanded business model and new website to provide more products, better functionality, and an easier method to order silicone-based products.

Ensuring product and farming sustainability, Symrise is manufacturing the botanical active ingredient (-)-?-bisabolol while supporting environmental standards.

Delfin Technologies, specialist in portable skin testing equipment, has signed distribution agreements with Eunice Inc in the Philippines and with Nardev Chemie Pte Ltd in south-east Asia for the representation of Delfin’s skin research instruments in a total of six countries in Asia.

Huber Engineered Materials, a division of J.M. Huber Corporation, has announced that construction of its new dental silica plant is complete in the coastal city of Qingdao in the Shandong province of China.

With the new ASEAN Directive now in place, cosmetic regulations in Asia are changing. Safety is also an issue that needs to be taken into consideration.

Worth an estimated US$18 billion in Asia alone, the skin-whitening market offers immense commercial opportunities.

The Conference, which will be taking place on the second day of in-cosmetics Asia is ideal for formulators, bench chemists and R&D specialists as well as application chemists responsible for regulatory and efficacy processes.