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Love for Preservatives

By: Rachel Chapman, Cosmetics & Toiletries
Posted: October 2, 2008, from the October 2008 issue of Cosmetics & Toiletries.

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Besides preservation, this issue of C&T magazine looks at challenges in skin lightening as Z.D. Draelos, MD, describes actives for this effect, such as licorice extract. And a technology to improve hair color retention using a quat functional olefin graft polymers is described in J. Cincotta’s feature.

Finally, who’s to say all these materials do or do not do what they claim? The testing facilities listed in our annual Who’s Who in Testing Directory—that’s who.