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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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DKSH to Distribute Shin-Etsu Silicones in Switzerland

DKSH already distributes Shin-Etsu Silicones’ personal care application silicones in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the Nordic countries.

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Editor's Note: Breakthrough Beauty

What do you consider a groundbreaking trend in beauty? Blue light protection? Anti-pollution? What about sensory synergies, personalized efficacy, or even minimizing undesired ingredients? This issue encompasses some of these breakthrough concepts.

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Intersecting the Senses: Synesthesia to Connect Cosmetics with Emotion

Synesthesia presents a great opportunity for innovative concepts in the cosmetics field. Considering its potential, a study was undertaken to develop a product design model based on synesthetic evaluations of tactile, audio, scent and taste stimuli, and supported by neuroscience techniques and implicit and explicit evaluations.

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Author Commentary: John Jiménez and Mauricio Guzman Alonzo on Synesthesia in Cosmetics

Most everyone knows what it's like to be a consumer. More recently, product developers have been tapping into this experience to evoke emotional connections in consumers. John Jiménez and Mauricio Guzman Alonzo, authors in our latest issue, have been leading this charge for cosmetics development. Here, they share their insights.

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Micelle Mash-up: Study Explores Surfactant vs. Fragrance Partitioning

What happens to the fragrance when you swap out one surfactant in a composition for another? That's what researchers at Firmenich wanted to find out; a newly published study explains.

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Economical, Easy to Handle, Naturally Plant-Derived Conditioner with Data Sheet

Naturally derived from the renewable resource Rapeseed (Canola) Oil, MAQUAT® BTMC-80 is based on the primary lipid which makes it a uniquely natural complement for use in hair conditioners and rinses, skin creams and lotions.

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Sensory Insight: Emollient Profiling Accelerates Speed to Market

Sensory science allows cosmetic chemists to evaluate formulas by providing objective and scientific data on the sensory properties raw materials impart in formulations. This article describes a new sensory test called “Oil Sensory Qualification,” which provides formulators with a fast approach to emollient selection using sensory science.

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Patent Pick: Matte Makeup and the Feel of Fillers

Matte makeup stands strong in its ability to even out skin tone and absorb excess moisture but wavers in one area: the feel of fillers. This was the focus of a new L'Oréal patent.

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NEW Vibrancy in Color Cosmetics: LexFeel Vibrant

LexFeel® Vibrant is a sensory modifying and structuring agent that improves payoff and allows for formulations with brilliant colors, unique textures and light skin feel. Unlike the greasy feel or drag associated with typical structuring agents, LexFeel® Vibrant gives the perfect balance of body and light luxurious feel to emulsion and anhydrous systems.

[video] News and Insights from Cosmetics & Toiletries: 12/8/2017

Another week in personal care in the books. What happened in the industry this past week? Cosmetics & Toiletries assistant editor Brooke Schleehauf gives the scoop in our latest video recap.

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Are Skincarewear and Perfumewear the Next Big Trends?

Skineeze offers a pair of black capris infused with shea butter, retinol and vitamin E, while Fleur du Mal x Kilian is a new lingerie set fragranced with Kilian Love, don't be shy.

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Wacker Opens Istanbul Laboratory Doors

Wacker Chemie AG's silicones for applications in personal care can now be tested at its new technical center located in Istanbul, Turkey. The company hopes to work with local formulators and businesses at the center.

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Gone in a ‘Flash’: Night Sweats Subside with a Novel Astringent Peptide Spray

Certain peptides have been shown to reduce perspiration. Here, the authors explore their use to develop a spray to treat menopause night sweats. To complicate formulation work, salt-based astringents were desired to provide immediate sensory benefits. The authors address this formulation challenge as well.

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From Your Lips to IFSCC Ears: Formulation Transformations Pique Attendee Interest

While innovations to transform delivery systems, hybrid ingredients, optimization of formulas, pollution in hair, and skin barrier function were rounded up in the second and third IFSCC conference sessions, it was the lips that caught our attention— in the posters as well.

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Patent Pick: Witch Hazel and More to Exothermally Heat Up Spa Care

The hot consumer market for spa treatments and their at-home spin-offs is about to get hotter. This patent application from Forever Young explores the use of witch hazel, for example, with other exothermic actives in products and an apparatus to impart heat during use.

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Naturally Beautify with 40notes’ Latest Collection

With California SCC Suppliers’ Day 2017 kicking off, 40notes Perfume has announced its plan to launch a new collection, which focuses on natural blends for fragrances and beauty care. Learn about this latest announcement and about other natural ingredient items at the show.

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Creme RIFM Model Reveals Aggregate Fragrance Exposure

Good news on the testing front: a model jointly developed by the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials and Creme Global recently showed consumer exposure to fragrances from personal care products tends to be over-estimated.