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Givaudan's Wheat Peptides Offer Cleaner Alternative to Cationic Guar

Givaudan Active Beauty highlighted its wheat-based peptides as a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to cationic guar during in-cosmetics Latin America.

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Praan Naturals Sources Sustainable Soy and Sunflower Lecithin

These nutritive and moisturizing emulsifiers and stabilizers enrich hair and skin care solutions.

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[video] Fresh Burst and Flowing Formulas on Location with Croda

Cosmetics & Toiletries recently went behind the scenes in Croda labs to see a new nonionic PEG-alternative w/o emulsifier in action. Watch the video to learn more.

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[video] Emulsifying Naturally on Location with Gattefossé

Cosmetics & Toiletries was on location near Lyon, France, to visit Gattefossé's formulation labs and see the natural, cold-process emulsifier Emulium Illustro in action.

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Lubrizol Introduces the 2-In-1 Rheology Modifier With Styling-boosting Properties

Broad compatibility, improved sustainability and other benefits leading to superior product claims.

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[video] Mixing Low-energy Emulsions

This quick emulsion requires little energy to create, enabling a variety of formulation textures with added sustainability benefits.

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[update] Elementis Delivers Clay-based Sensory Experiences

Skin care formulations with textures resembling jam and taffy made use of the company's clay-based rheology modifiers.

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Comparatively Speaking: Viscosity in CentiPoise (cP) vs. CentiStokes

Viscosity is one of the most fundamental characteristics consumers perceive when using a personal care product. So how do we measure this characteristic? Here, Tony O'Lenick looks to Karl Laden, Ph.D., for the answers.

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Supplier Roundtable: Hitting the Rheology Bullseye

Cosmetic sensory experiences can convey efficacy to consumers while contributing to product benefits. In this installment of the Cosmetics & Toiletries Supplier Roundtable, innovators weighed in on how to create these pleasing textures.

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7 Standout Sensory Concepts from in-cosmetics Asia

Lip care texturizers, soft-focus powders, grease-reducing ingredients and more stood out at in-cosmetics Asia. Click through for the event's top sensory concepts.

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Lubrizol Polymer Holds Visual Cues in Suspense

Suspended exfoliants, microcapsules, etc., are gaining popularity in formulations seeking to combine asethetics with efficacy. This rheology modifier is meant to add stability and sensory appeal to these formulations.

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Biosil Technologies’ Biosil Basics I-90

This silicone-based, non-ionic ingredient provides textural properties to emulsions, such as ease of spreadability and rub-in.

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BASF Care Creations’ Cetiol Ultimate

Performance testing has shown that this natural emollient improves color stability and has comparable pigment-wetting properties as cyclomethicone, while enhancing formulation texture.

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Arista Industries, Inc.’s Sunflower Oil

For use in both the cosmetic and food industries, this emollient oil can be utilized as a carrier for other oils or as a replacement for higher-cost options.

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IFF/Lucas Meyer Cosmetics’ Siligel

This easy-to-use gelling agent is sustainably produced to leave a silicone-like skin feel in formulations.

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[video] Sensory, Men's Care, Preservative-free and More Top Chemyunion's List

Fluid and creamy textures, minimalism and flexibility, preservative-free, men's care and more rose to the top of Chemyunion's list during in-cosmetics Global. Learn more from this video interview.

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[video] It's Personal: Custom Beauty via Bite's Bespoke Lipstick

The current wave of personalization in the beauty industry is wide-sweeping. Here, experience a firsthand account and video of Bite Beauty's bespoke lipstick service, wherein consumers mix custom lipsticks on the spot.

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Emollient D4, D5 Alternative? Look to Lanxess

Lanxess Distribution's isoparaffin series applies to a variety of applications; one of which is as a replacement for D4 and D5, which are under the regulatory lens.