Industry Updates

CTFA Changes Name to Focus on Consumer Safety
12/3/2007 -- The Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association has changed its names to the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) in an attempt to become more consumer orientated. More from CosmeticsDesign.com...

Now, That’s Smart!
A closer look at the growing emphasis on smart, two-faced and nanostructured particles and their many applications in personal care formulations
11/2007 -- One very noticeable hair care trend is the increasing use of nanostructured or “smart” particles to impart desirable attributes to hair. This drive appears to have been initiated by an emphasis on amphipathic particles that started about a decade ago. The concept of using amphipathic particles as emulsion stabilizers was originally introduced in 1907 by Pickering who discovered the stabilization of oil and water emulsion by colloidal particles situated at the interfacial region between dispersed and continuous phases to form a thin film which provides mechanical stabilization. More from HAPPI...

FDA Extends Feedback Period on New Sunscreen Regulations
12/3/2007 -- The FDA has extended the feedback period on the sunscreen regulations proposed this summer, in response to calls from industry for time to complete laboratory tests. More from CosmeticsDesign.com...

Better Membranes For Water Treatment, Drug Delivery Developed
12/5/2007 -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new generation of biomimetic membranes for water treatment and drug delivery. The highly permeable and selective membranes are based on the incorporation of the functional water channel protein Aquaporin Z into a novel A-B-A triblock copolymer. More from ScienceDaily...

Mintel Lifts the Lid on Cosmetics Trends for 2008
11/30/2007 -- Eco-friendly, ethical personal care products are likely to prove one of the biggest worldwide trends in 2008, alongside toiletries that smell good enough to eat, masstige personal care products, mineral make-up, and more interactive ways of shopping. More from CosmeticsDesign.com...

2 in 1: Make-up Meets Skin Care
11/2007 -- It’s no secret women want it all: cosmetics that feel good, look great and last long. Oh, and are good for the skin, too. Sound impossible? Not with the emergence of two-in-one treatment makeup that lets consumers enjoy the benefits of powerful skin care active ingredients in color cosmetics. More from GCI Magazine...

Dermasense Provides Personal Analysis
Dermasense has launched its new skin analysis system, the Callegari Soft 5.5 System, in the UK
11/30/2007 -- The system is said to provide therapists with quick and quantitative results to successfully back up their treatment regimes by accurately measuring seven parameters that can be compared against defined normal ranges. These include skin hydration, collagen, pH, sebum, melanin, phototype and temperature. More from CosmeticsBusiness.com...

New Material Doubles Record for Holding Hydrogen
11/16/2007 -- If the hoped-for hydrogen economy is ever to become a reality, researchers must devise efficient ways to produce and store the gas. That will require a series of breakthroughs that have been slow in coming. But researchers in the United States have hit upon a material for storing hydrogen that could be far better than the competition--just the sort of break hydrogen researchers are looking for. More from ScienceNow Daily News...

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Member News

DuPont Updates Investors on its Applied BioSciences Growth Opportunities
Bio-based technologies pipeline is rapidly advancing to deliver new products to market
Wilmington, DE (11/13/2007) -- Calling it “one of the most significant growth opportunities in the company’s history,” DuPont Chairman and CEO Charles O. Holliday, Jr . today joined several DuPont leaders to update security analysts and investors on its DuPont Applied BioSciences™ business. The business covers a range of bio-based products and technologies including BioFuels, BioMaterials, BioSpecialties and BioMedical. More from DuPont...

ITC Launches New Range of Personal Care Products
Fiama Di Wills Shower Gels and Superia soaps and shampoos
Kolkata, India (10/15/2007) -- Expanding its range of personal care products, and following the successful launch of Fiama Di Wills Shampoos, ITC today presented yet another world class range of products for the Indian consumer through its new range of Fiama Di Wills Shower Gels. More from ITC...

DNAge and Good-bye Cellulite Are “BEST SELLERS of 2007”
Hamburg, Germany (11/19/2007) -- The world’s third largest German marketing research institute “Information Resources” (IRI) and the trade publication “RUNDSCHAU für den Lebensmittelhandel” have recognized the most successful new products of the year. 15,000 new products were brought onto the German market and only about 15 % of those will remain on the shelves in the long term. For this reason, to be selected to receive the Best Seller 2007 award is all the more meaningful. More from Beiersdorf...

Innovative Light Stabilizer Technology for Water-based Coatings Wins Ciba R&D Award 2007
Basel, Switzerland (11/16/2007) -- An international team yesterday received the Ciba R&D Award 2007 for developing an innovative technology that allows high-performance light stabilizers to be readily incorporated into waterborne coatings. Novel Encapsulated Additives Technology (NEAT) enables production of environmentally more sustainable coatings without compromising on key performance criteria. Hydrophobic light stabilizers are first encapsulated in a polymer and then dispersed in water in small, stabilized droplets. More from Ciba...

Cognis at In-Cosmetics India: Well-being Solutions for the Asian Market
Monheim, Germany (11/21/2007) -- For the modern consumer, the concepts of well-being and performance are closely linked. They are looking for a holistic product experience for the products they buy, from personal care to home care / I&I. At In-Cosmetics India in Mumbai, Cognis Care Chemicals and its active ingredients business Laboratoires Sérobiologiques exhibited a range of products and concepts designed to deliver a holistic product experience in line with the wellness trend. Among the ingredients and products on display were solubilizers, emulsifiers, surfactants, thickeners, wax dispersions, emollients, polymers and active ingredients that enable manufacturers to meet new consumer demands. More from Cognis...

The 10th Annual L’OREAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science Honor Five Distinguished Women Scientists
Paris, France (11/9/2007) -- In anticipation of World Science Day on November 10th, five distinguished women researchers in the life sciences have been announced as Laureates of the 10th annual L’OREAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science. The international Awards Jury for 2008, which was presided by Professor Gunter Blobel, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1999, is made up of 18 eminent members of the scientific community. Professor Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974, is the Founding President of the Awards. More from L'Oreal...

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