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Section: Cosmetic Ingredients > Sensory
Sensory
How Damaged is Hair? Part I: Surface Damage
This article is the first of two that explores ways of capturing and quantifying the different forms of hair damage. Here, we begin with damage to the hair surface, or cuticle, while also exploring the implications of this occurrence. A second article will focus on damage to the internal cortex structure.
Event Coverage
What Beauty Innovations Qualify for the 2025
C&T Allēs
? What Are the Requirements?
What entries compete in the
C&T Allēs
? From ingredients, blends and prototype/finished formulas, to test methods/tools, devices and digital tech, entries span the cosmetic R&D process. Read on for more and enter now - the deadline is Sept. 13!
Actives
2025 Beauty Ingredient Trend Preview: What’s Next?
From silk-derived biotech to microbiome sexual wellness and beyond, new ingredients point to future innovation opportunities.
Sensory
What Every Formulator Needs to Know About Fragrance
This overview of the types of problems encountered when fragrancing personal care products discusses issues of stability, solubility, color change and compatibility of fragrance and product ingredients.
Tech Transfer
What Food Science Can Lend to Skin Care
What insights can personal care leverage from the foods industry? This article explores food trends, sensory language and metrics that translate across these categories.
Sensory
What Every Formulator Needs to Know about Fragrance
Sensory
Are Silicones Safe and Sustainable? What are the Alternatives?
Alternative hydrocarbons, esters, ethers and emollients aim to replace D5, and to a lesser extent, low viscosity silicone fluids—and many of them meet the mark. However, a second look at why silicones are being replaced is advised. Formulators may want to evaluate the data themselves for both safety and environmental aspects to make their own judgments.
Safety
EU Lays Down the Law on Cyclic Silicones D5, D6 — Now What?
It happened. On May 16, 2024, the European Union officially adopted new restrictions on siloxanes D5 and D6, as promised. What drove this decision? And what can the industry do now?
Sensory
BASF, Isobionics Launch Sandalwood Alternative: Isobionics Santalol
BASF nutrition & health and Isobionics are launching a sandalwood alternative as their first joint product: Isobionics santalol.
Event Coverage
Beauty Accelerate
Schedule-at-a-glance: The Who, What and When for Innovation Exchanges
The event is geared for engagement to stimulate unscripted and synergistic exchanges — but only if you're there. Check out this stellar lineup — and register now!
Polls
[poll results] What Do You Wish You Knew More About in Terms of Fragrancing Personal Care Formulas?
Fragrancing product formulas requires balancing regulatory requirements, ensuring stability and crafting the perfect sensorial experience. So in a recent poll, we asked what you wish you knew more about in terms of fragrance. Here's what you said.
Sensory
Trimethylsiloxysilicate Film-Formers for Hair/Skin Feel
At In-Cosmetics Asia in Bangkok, BRB International BV will launch a trimethylsiloxysilicate line of film-formers for a variety of applications.
Sensory
Patent Pick: Isopulegol Arousal
We consumers take things too seriously. This is evident from the growing demand for products that boost our morale or relax us. While marketers offer numerous (profitable) solutions, perhaps good, old-fashioned fragrance is the answer; that's what a new patent application suggests.
Moisturizing
Reducing Hair Friction for Healthy Hair Movement
Croda partnered with The Centre for Visual Computing at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom to create the Hair Dynamics Test to measure the movement of healthy hair and compare it to the movement of damaged hair. Then, the research team at Croda set out to create a chemistry that would specifically seek to improve the movement of damaged hair by reducing inter-fiber friction.
Moisturizing
Reducing Hair Friction for Healthy Hair Movement
Croda partnered with The Centre for Visual Computing at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom to create the Hair Dynamics Test to measure the movement of healthy hair and compare it to the movement of damaged hair. Then, the research team at Croda set out to create a chemistry that would specifically seek to improve the movement of damaged hair by reducing inter-fiber friction.
Companies
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.
Literature/Data
Patent Pick: This Stuff is Scent-ense
Cyclohexanol keeps popping up in patents as an area of innovation for companies developing materials to improve fragrance intensity. Just ask today's patent-holder, Takasago International.
Literature/Data
Patent Pick: Fragrance Duration—A 'Pressing' Issue
The pressure is always on for perfumers to develop means to extend fragrance duration from perfumes as well as personal care products. In this patent application, Unilever inventors take that pressure in a new direction: vapor pressure.
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