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Ciba Launches Pigment Line at in-cosmetics

Ciba entered the decorative cosmetics market with a new line of cosmetic grade pigments.

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BASF Focuses on Effects Pigments

BASF Corp. will hone in on four themes for 2008 color cosmetic trends: calming, narrative, resonating and polychromatic.

Red Hot Pigment

A brilliant new red pigment based on silica flakes has been added to the portfolio of EMD Chemicals/Merck KGaA…

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Fancor Highlights Vegetable-based Sensory Ingredient

Fancor highlights its new Crambe abyssinica seed oil (and) Butyrospermum parkii (shea butter) extract, an all-natural, vegetable-origin ingredient...

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Clariant Eyes Ciba's Masterbatches

Clariant has announced its plan to acquire the masterbatches business of Ciba Specialty Chemicals.

P&G Reduces Fiber Damage with New Technology

Procter & Gamble (P&G) Beauty has uncovered a new hair color chemistry that delivers color with less fiber damage.

Neelikon Offers Personal Care Pigments

Neelikon Food Dyes and Chemicals Limited now offers a range of colors for cosmetic and personal care applications.

Filling the Fluorescent Palette

In the search for more exciting cosmetic colors, the cosmetic chemist can draw on colors that are more exciting by definition. They are the fluorescent colors.

Color Cosmetic Pearls to Add Soft Focus and Reduce Wrinkles

Skin Performance Laboratories (SP Labs), an operation of Créations Couleurs, has introduced small color pearls that optimize soft focus effect and film-forming capacity of color cosmetics.

Bold and Pearlescent Cosmetic Pigments

Sun Chemical has introduced a new pigment line that provides 10 new shades of intense color and pearlescent luster.

Aveda Re-launches Uruku Makeup with Annato Pigment

Aveda will re-launch the Uruku makeup collection with annato, a rich red pigment derived from the seeds of the urukum shrub.

Improving Hair Color Retention Using Quat Functional Olefin-graft Polymers

Formulations containing quaternary-modified olefin-graft polymers are shown here to improve the permanency of artificial hair colorant in human hair exposed to repeated washing. In addition, when these polymers were applied to hair by a sulfate-based shampoo, the foam height and viscosity of the shampoo remained unaffected.

Cream in Powder Form: An New Concept in Makeup

The present work describes a cosmetic technology based on a newer formulating concept—cream in powder form. The final formulation can be created by two different technical processes to produce either water- or oil-based cosmetics. In each case, the proper selection of ingredients determines the stability of the finished products.

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Encapsulated Organic Colorants to Mimic Naturally Flawless Skin

In the present study, researchers discuss the benefits of using encapsulated organic colorants in cosmetic foundations, including higher chroma shades with tunable opacity, increased color variation of the foundation and a surface energy profile optimized to skin.

A Controllable Progressive Hair Dye Process

Product innovation consistently sparks new consumer interest in hair coloring. The application of the product must be convenient and simple; therefore, a gradual color-enhancement shampoo is a preferred choice for its ease of application and needless color commitment.

Bench & Beyond: Red and Wed in Indian Traditional Color Cosmetics

This column discusses the different decorative cosmetics used in Indian tradition.

Bench & Beyond: Pigment Ideas from the Kingdoms of Animals and Microorganisms

Butterflies, bacteria, yeast and fungi are providing new ways to color cosmetics, thanks to recent developments in microscopy, microbiology, nanotechnology and biotechnology. Although cosmetic colorants are highly regulated, certain colorants from plants and minerals do not require certification and have long histories of use in cosmetics.

Metallic Pigments in Personal Care Applications

Data reported here illustrates that metallic pigments enhance the effects of existing colorants, expanding the existing color palette available to cosmetic formulators. Compatibility, applications and their safety profiles also are described.