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The Kawa Project Upcycled Products

The Kawa Project Upcycles Coffee for Cosmetics, Food Products

To cut down on food waste, Aaron Feigelman founded The Kawa Project to upcycle coffee for personal care and food applications. Two products are currently offered—Kawa Carrier Oil and Kawa Coffee Oil.

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Lleig's Upcycled Cosmetic Ritual Concept

Concepts include a moisturizer and soap.

This editor's pick from Colonial Chemical is a bubble bath bar that is formulated to create a bubble bath but is mild on the skin.

Formula Focus: Bubble Bath Bar

This editor's pick from Colonial Chemical is a bubble bath bar formulated to create a bubble bath that is gentle to skin.

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Silquat CR 4000 from Siltech

The Clean Deo is available in three scents: clean rose, fresh coconut and soft lavender.

Beautycounter Launches Refillable Deodorant

The Clean Deo neutralizes body odor, absorbs sweat and leaves no white residue.

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Formula Focus: Refreshing Face Wash

This editor's pick from Ingredion features the company's fermentation-derived xanthan gum for high clarity and thickening in a prototype facial wash formula.

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Polyesteramine Performance: Improving Mildness in Rinse-off Cleansers

Polyesteramines are typically used as cationic conditioners but their surface-active properties and ability to associate with detersive surfactants suggests irritation reduction and viscosity-building effects. To test these effects, surface tensiometry was used to quantify the surfactant-binding capacity of polyesteramines. Furthermore, preclinical assessments were made to determine irritation potential in epidermal equivalents.

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Tauriga Sciences Launching CBG-infused Bath Bombs

The company also plans on launching a Pear Bellini CBG Bath Bomb fragrance, but the formulation is still under development.

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Comparatively Speaking: Cleaning, Sanitizing, Disinfecting and Sterilizing

Cleaning refers to the removal of organic materials while sanitizing, disinfecting and sterilizing refer to reducing viable microbes. Tony O'Lenick asks Rich Theiner for clarification, in this "Comparatively Speaking."

Koel Colours has rolled out eye makeup pigments and Altered Aqua, a series of water-based dispersions of pigments for cosmetic and personal care applications.

Koel Colors Eye Makeup and Soaps

Koel Colours has rolled out eye makeup pigments and Altered Aqua, a series of water-based dispersions of pigments for cosmetic and personal care applications.

Inolex’s Lexgard Natural MHG MB is a multifunctional ingredient that can preserve products, control odor and impart anti-soaping properties in emulsions, as shown in a video.

[video] Inolex’s Lexgard Natural MHG MB Preserves, Controls Odor and Prevents Soaping

Inolex’s Lexgard Natural MHG MB is a multifunctional ingredient that can preserve products, control odor and impart anti-soaping properties in emulsions, as shown in a video.

Stephenson Cosmos Approved Base C Formulations

Stephenson’s Reveals First COSMOS-approved Personal Care, Base C

Stephenson has reformed four of its base formulas to meet COSMOS specifications. These include a body wash, lotion and shampoo and conditioner.

Colonial Chemical's ColaTeric CAHS is a mild amphoteric surfactant suitable for foaming cleansers.

Colonial Chemical’s ColaTeric CAHS as Amphoacetate Replacement

ColaTeric CAHS from Colonial Chemical has been shown to be a mild amphoacetate replacement for personal care formulations.

A recent Unilever patent discloses a low soap content composition that was found to enhance the availability of benefit agents deposited from a rinse-off formula.

Patent Review: Rinse-off Cleansing Compositions

A recent Unilever patent discloses a low soap content composition that was found to enhance the availability of benefit agents deposited from a rinse-off formula.

The updated range features two yellows and a carmine that correlate when creating warm yellow, orange and deeper hues.

Clariant’s Cosmenyl 100 Preserves and Boosts Color

Clariant has launched Cosmenyl 100 pigment dispersions with a new preservation system to safely boost color for home and personal care.

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Kindred Kids & vedaPURE Skin Care Lines for Infants, Mothers

The collections feature skin care products catered for women and infants.

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Read the Label: Relax Bath & Shower Concentrate by Clarins

This "Read the Label" discusses the Relax Bath & Shower Concentrate with Essential Oils by Clarins. Key ingredients analyzed include SLES, bitter orange leaf/twig oil and Tilia cordata wood extract, among others.

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Soy + Rhamnolipid Stability, Natural Soapnut and Sulfate-free: Foams in the Literature

Amidst COVID-19, one might anticipate the spike in demand for cleansers to accelerate the growth of products in foam form. In relation, we this brief literature review offers research to support the formulation of foams.