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Health Food and Personal Care: A Virtuous Circle

Formulators in both the personal care and health food industries often draw inspiration from one another and take advantage of newly popular ingredients’ healthy reputations. One recent trend brought about by consumers’ desire to eat healthy is the popularity of complex starches as a replacement for refined flour and simple sugars.

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Patent Pick: Polymer/Surfactant Duo Ends Suspension Suspense

Ingredient fallout at the bottom of a bottle is not typically a benefit outlined in Marketing's product brief. As such, PZ Cussons inventors have made structurally sound moves to leverage polymer/surfactant interactions and put an end to the suspense of suspension.

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Blue Sky Thinking: Star Polymer Aligns Clarity with Viscosity for High-perfume Surfactant Systems

Building viscosity and clarity in surfactant systems, especially those that are sulfate-free and have high fragrance loads, is challenging. In response, a new six-armed nonionic associative thickener was developed that effectively bridges many small micelles to create larger, bridged structures that improve viscosity, while retaining clarity.

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Patent Pick: Starch Breakdown Builds Viscosity

Novamont inventors are building something new from complete destruction: viscosity. A new patent application explains, on a more "granular" level.

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Naturals Grow the Carboxymethyl Cellulose Market

We could all use a little bonding time to stabilize the formula for happiness in life. And similar to human connections, in personal care, the more natural the bonding, the better. Enter: Carboxymethyl cellulose.

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Binding Water in 3D: Cellulose Networks for Texture and Sensory Benefits

This article explores a natural raw material sustainably produced from cellulose that improves rheological and sensory properties in cosmetic products. Here, it is tested for matte effects in a face cream, for hair conditioning to reduce combing forces, and for viscosity recovery in sunscreen sprays.

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Patent Pick: Liposomes to Deliver Next-gen Cell Regeneration

Perhaps the best way to repair damaged and aged skin is to replace it. Sound impossible? Researchers on a new patent application out of Seoul may have the inside—literally.

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Patent Pick: A 'Swell' Sunscreen Stabilizer

Sunscreens are always in the hot seat; whether it's proving they give the claimed SPF, or balancing feel with stability and performance. In this patent, P&G inventors have come up with a "swell" idea: superabsorbent polymers for sunscreens and other skin care applications.

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Don’t Let the Polymers Bite

Halloween is kicking off with the IFSCC Congress 2016, which consists of various launches and innovations. Lubrizol Corporation is one of many companies introducing new concepts, including its Carbopol SMART polymers.

Smart Polymers Open the Door to Infinite Possibilities

From traditional cleansing chassis to complex, milder systems and across the full range of formulation pH, Carbopol SMART polymers deliver exceptional clarity, suspension, and elegant rheology to your products while also enhancing mildness, skin feel and foam aesthetics.

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Sustainable Suds: Renewable Algal Betaine Dehyton® AO 45 Fits Multiple Needs

Dehyton® AO 45, BASF’s Algal Betaine, is a primary cleaning agent with a comparable foam profile to traditional betaine derived from a unique raw material source.

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Evonik Partners with Disan for Distribution in Andes

Evonik has contracted with Colombian chemical company Disan to provide distribution of its cosmetic products and support services for customers in the Andean region of South America.

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Yield Stress Measurements for Personal Care Part II: Methods

The previous article defined yield stress and explained how to calculate the amount needed for a given application. Here, methods for measuring yield stress are compared by determining the values of two materials: a non-thixotropic acrylates copolymer solution, and a thixotropic body wash. The results provide recommendations for methods in terms of relevance, exactness and robustness.

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Patent Pick: Hybrid Hydrogels

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's features are hybrid hydrogels formed from biocompatible polymers and peptides that self-assemble in aqueous media.

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Patent Pick: Odor-free Polymeric Thickener

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's feature discloses a novel polymeric thickener free from acrylamide fragments; and therefore, free from odor.

Evonik Adds Sustainable Cleansing Surfactant

A concentrated surfactant based on RSPO-certified sustainable palm kernel oil, Evonik's new TEGO Betain P 50 C lends an improved cost/performance ratio compared to standard CAPBs.

Patent Picks—Vibrating Mascara; 'Fracking' Polymers; Thickening Oil Phases; and More 'Rheology' Patents

Patent Picks are compiled by the editors from publicly available sources. This edition features inventions related to rheology and thickening: from vibrating mascara to improve its viscosity during application, gel networks to thicken oral care, and natural oil polyester thickeners, to a "fracking" rheology modifier, composition to thicken ionic oil phases and more.

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Balancing Texture with Electrolyte Resistance for Improved Thickening

Described here are two acrylic rheology modifiers for novel thickening properties in formulations. A pre-neutralized carbomer is shown to impart a lighter, smoother texture than traditional carbomer while increasing process flexibility. In addition, a new associative acrylate/C10-30 alkyl acrylate crosspolymer exhibits thickening in high electrolyte media, acts synergistically with surfactants, and facilitates the dispersion of fillers.