RECENT NEWS

According to a new report by Global Market Insights, the global shea butter market size is anticipated to reach $2.9 billion by 2025, with a 10.5% compound annual growth rate

Symrise has launched SymProBiome, a new platform for microbiome research. This emerged from collaborations between its experts in microbiology and microbiome research, and other authorities in different fields

Barcelona-based Vytrus Biotech has achieved 100% natural origin content in its entire portfolio of active ingredients according to ISO 16128

Under a new conservation agreement with the Jelinkon Community Resource Management Area, Koster Keunen West Africa, the largest producer of beeswax in West Africa has agreed to adopt sustainable beekeeping practice

Fragrance house Iberchem, which is now part of Croda, has launched a new facility in Campinas, Brazil

Vantage Specialty Chemicals has completed an ongoing its investment at its site in Leuna, Germany, produce its Liponic EG-1 humectant (INCI: Glycereth-26). This is already produced at the US plant

Azelis’s distribution agreement with Merck KGaAs’s Surface Solutions business unit is to be extended from Vietnam to Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia

Mibelle Biochemistry’s new-launch MelanoGray, an essence made from Chios mandarins that “markedly reduces the quantity of grey hair in both men and women”

As part of its France’s solid skincare and make-up strategy MS Beautilab has acquired GI Picco’s, which, it said “strengthens MS Beautilab’s product assortment and thus completes its historical know-how”

LSI, the former Lonza Specialty Ingredients, has taken the name Arxada as of 21 October. Based in Basel, it was launched as an independent business in July after being sold by Lonza

Arbor Life Labs has published the results of a clinical trial showing that its patent-pending botanical Replenology hair system can both prevent hair loss and activate dormant follicles

Symrise and Van Aroma are expanding their sustainable patchouli programme, which began in Sulawesi in 2017, to another major Indonesian island of Sumatra

Milliken & Company has formally acquired microencapsulation specialist Encapsys from the Cypress Performance Group

Indian platform for fashion brands Myntra has joined forces with Revieve, a “personalised digital brand experience company” for the beauty, skin, health and wellness to launch the Digital Skincare Advisor

BASF and its research partners are sharing their latest scientific findings in skin and hair care, by means of both podium presentations and posters at this year’s IFSCC conference

Japanese firms Kao and Kosé have agreed to “embark on comprehensive collaboration in the cosmetics sustainability domain"

Symrise is filing a range of patent applications with the launch of its new multifunctional ingredient for product protection. Hydrolite 7 green is a 100% bio-based 1,2-alkanediol derived from sustainably sourced castor bean oil.

Acme-Hardesty, a division of Jacob Stern & Sons, has agreed to be the distribution partner of China’s Green Mountain Biotech for the personal care industry in the US

According to a scientific review of existing studies by Australian firm Quintis Sandalwood, Indian sandalwood oil has more scientifically proven benefits than CBD oil. This, Quintis said, makes it “a good alternate in cosmetic applications"

Chemicals and ingredients distributor Biesterfeld Spezialchemie has appointeed Sergej Lazovic to be its joint managing director, along with Peter Wilkes