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May 08, 2012 | 03:47 PM CDT
Improving Skin Feel, Stability
Grant Industries will present ingredients designed to improve the skin feel and stability of formulas, such as silicone elastomer gels, silicone products, microsphere powders, silicone copolyol surfactants, physical UV dispersions, silicone acrylate resins, active delivery systems and more.
May 08, 2012 | 01:57 PM CDT
Sunscreen, Actives Stabilizer
The HallStar Company will showcase recent innovations using its ethylhexyl methoxycrylene photostabilizer, which stabilizes sensitive ingredients and enables sunscreen formulators to meet and exceed international requirements for sun care.
May 04, 2012 | 01:33 PM CDT
Polymers and Thickeners for Styling, Cleansing
Lubrizol will showcase three product innovations including a fixative polymer for styling mousses, a polymer for improved electrolyte compatibility and a thickener for mild surfactant formulas, among others.
May 04, 2012 | 12:46 PM CDT
Tailoring Surface Properties
Gelest will showcase its specialty silanes and silicones as reactive surface treatments to tailor the properties of surfaces during Suppliers' Day.
May 03, 2012 | 02:42 PM CDT
A Novel Method to Measure and Pre-select Functional Filler Pigments
By: Miriam Becker, Christoph Schmidt, PhD, Veroni…
Functional filler pigments play an important role in adjusting optical properties such as transparency and soft focus effects in cosmetics. However, their suitability for specific formulas is not apparent until time-consuming tests using many different fillers have been conducted. Therefore, a new method to predetermine the soft focus effects of functional filler pigments is described here.
Apr 16, 2012 | 01:38 PM CDT
Silicones for Shine and Conditioning in Hair Care
At In-Cosmetics in Barcelona, Bluestar Silicones added two silicones to its Mirasil line, one designed to add shine and one designed to condition.
Mar 26, 2012 | 03:21 PM CDT
Winners Announced for Cosmetics & Toiletries R&D Awards and Innovation Zone Awards
At the In-Cosmetics Awards Ceremony on April 17, 2012, Cosmetics & Toiletries announced the winners for the 2012 Cosmetics & Toiletries R&D Awards. In addition, In-Cosmetics named the winners for its Innovation Zone Awards.
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Mar 06, 2012 | 03:33 PM CST
Defining Dispersion
In this excerpt, Ed Faulkner opens his discussion of pigment dispersion by addressing the importance of a working definition of the term “dispersion.”
Mar 01, 2012 | 11:24 AM CST
Fishing for Ideas at Informex USA 2012
By: Rachel L. Grabenhofer
At first, this cosmetics R&D trade journal editor felt like a fish out of water at the Informex USA specialty chemicals exhibition. However, some novel nibbles and a few big catches were made there for personal care R&D.
Feb 09, 2012 | 02:01 PM CST
Hybrid Silicone Powders for Oil Absorption in Cosmetics
Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, a US subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd., has added two oil-absorbing spherical powders to its KSP line of hybrid silicone powders. The line combines a silicone rubber core with a with a silicone resin shell to provide feel and visual benefits to cosmetic formulations.